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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
May. 17, 2011
Philip Andrew Mansfield, Vancouver, CA;
Michael Robert Levy, Vancouver, CA;
Derek B. Clegg, Redwood City, CA (US);
Philip Andrew Mansfield, Vancouver, CA;
Michael Robert Levy, Vancouver, CA;
Derek B. Clegg, Redwood City, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
For a document with content that has been structured into a set primitive areas, a novel method for performing contiguous selection of document content across different primitive areas in the document is disclosed. The method defines a contiguous section in the ordered list by identifying the first and last primitive elements of the contiguous selection. The first primitive element is identified as the primitive element that is closest in reading flow to a start selection point on the page, while the last primitive element is identified as the primitive element that is closest in reading flow to an end selection point on the page.