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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2012
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

William S Andreas, Littleton, MA (US);

Erik B Craig, Raleigh, NC (US);

David K Grotjohn, Cary, NC (US);

Janet E Mockler-Rowlatt, Markham, CA;

Steven D Wood, Edinburgh, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/20 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/212 (2013.01); G06F 17/2241 (2013.01); G06F 17/30902 (2013.01);
Abstract

A document previewing system includes a display device including a user interface and a document previewing engine coupled to the display device. The document previewing engine is configured to download an outline of a document including outline features and filler content in between the outline features. The filler content replaces secondary content of the document. The document previewing engine is further configured to display the outline on the display device, and download the secondary content corresponding to an outline feature in response to a user navigating to the outline feature and the outline feature displaying on the display device for a period of time.


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