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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 25, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Olympia Gluck, Haifa, IL;
Itzhack Goldberg, Hadera, IL;
Gilad Sharaby, Alon Hagalil, IL;
Neil Sondhi, Budapest, HU;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a method for dynamically highlighting repetitive text in electronic documents, obtaining one or more user preferences related to a user reading an electronic document. The method further includes determining whether the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, wherein a repetitive text association is data that provides one or more indications of repetitive text segments interspersed within a document. In response to determining that the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, the method further includes identifying one or more repetitive text segments in the electronic document corresponding to the one or more repetitive text associations and determining a time duration expended by the user reading an instance of the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document. The method further includes highlighting the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document based one or more obtained user preferences.