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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1999
John L. Beezer, Redmond, WA (US);
William Hill, Carnation, WA (US);
Leroy B. Keely, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Darryl E. Rubin, Redmond, WA (US);
David M. Silver, Redmond, WA (US);
Susan D. Woolf, Seattle, WA (US);
Jean Pierre DE Vries, Kirkland, WA (US);
John L. Beezer, Redmond, WA (US);
William Hill, Carnation, WA (US);
Leroy B. Keely, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Darryl E. Rubin, Redmond, WA (US);
David M. Silver, Redmond, WA (US);
Susan D. Woolf, Seattle, WA (US);
Jean Pierre De Vries, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for presenting electronic documents to users in the form of immersive reading pages. Immersive reading pages mimic the presentation that is provided by printed paper documents. There are no traditional user interface features displayed to the user, yet the user has access to the enhanced functionality that can be provided by computer-implemented documents. In an illustrative embodiment, the user has access to intrabook (or inside-the-book), interbook (or outside-the-book) navigational features, and content interactive features, such as highlighting, annotating, drawing or looking up definitions or synonyms of words in the document. Enhanced functionality is transparently associated with elements on the immersive reading page such that the immersive reading page is without visible indicators of the association. A training mode for permitting the user to learn the transparent association behind the immersive reading pages provides visual guides to the user. The guides may be turned off after the user learns the association.