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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. 02, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Rakuten Kobo Inc., Toronto, CA;

Inventor:

Benjamin Landau, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

RAKUTEN KOBO INC., Toronto, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/241 (2013.01); G06F 17/30011 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01);
Abstract

System and method of automatically generating a user-editable document to save search results for efficient management and utilization by users. A book reading program according to the present disclosure can receive a user search request and automatically save the search results to a designated annotation document according to a predetermined layout. Through various editing functions provided by the book reading GUI, a user can advantageously edit the annotation document. The results may be book or other passages that contain a query term. In the document, the passage themselves can be edited and the user can add additional content by using text editing features.


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