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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
May. 22, 2008
Martin D. Carroll, Watchung, NJ (US);
Martin D. Carroll, Watchung, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Links to references cited in a given electronic document are automatically generated in conjunction with processing of the electronic document. In one aspect, which may be implemented at least in part in an otherwise conventional electronic document reader or an associated preprocessor, a reference citation is detected in a first electronic document, the reference citation is processed to determine a link that provides access to a second electronic document identified by the reference citation, and the link and at least a portion of the first electronic document are displayed to a user. The link may be determined by providing one or more designated portions of the reference citation to a search engine and processing results provided by the search engine to determine the link. For example, a search query may be formulated based on the detected reference citation and the search query provided to the search engine.