System and method for annotating documents

Title: System and method for annotating documents

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The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080201632, System and method for annotating documents.

1. A method for annotating documents, comprising: retrieving a document selected for display by a user; locating sub-document elements in content of the retrieved document; computing a similarity measure for each of the located sub-document elements; identifying similarity measures of annotated sub-document elements and the located sub-document elements that indicate a correspondence there between; augmenting the located sub-document elements of the retrieved document with annotations of those annotated sub-document elements that have comparable similarity measures; displaying the retrieved document augmented with annotations.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sub-document elements are a type selected from the group consisting of words, images, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, pages, sections, and chapters.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sub-document elements are a plurality of types selected from the group consisting of words, images, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, pages, sections, and chapters.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said augmenting associates each annotation of the structural elements with a name label.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the name labels is one or more of the user and a co-user.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the document is a web page.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising defining bounding boxes for each word in the web page.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising: identifying a user input event indicating a word selection in the web page; and automatically tagging the web page with the identified word selection.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising: identifying a user input event indicating highlighting of one or more words in the web page; and automatically highlighting the one or more words in the web page.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the similarity measure is a unique identifier that uniquely identifies sub-document elements.

11. An apparatus for annotating documents, comprising: a memory for storing processing instructions of the apparatus; and a processor coupled to the memory for executing the processing instructions of the apparatus; the processor in executing the processing instructions: retrieving a document selected for display by a user; locating sub-document elements in content of the retrieved document; computing a similarity measure for each of the located sub-document elements; identifying similarity measures of annotated sub-document elements and the located sub-document elements that indicate a correspondence there between; augmenting the located sub-document elements of the retrieved document with annotations of those annotated sub-document elements that have comparable similarity measures; displaying the retrieved document augmented with annotations.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the processor in executing instructions for augmenting further comprises instructions for associating each annotation of the structural elements with a name label comprising one or more of the user or a co-user.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the document is a web page.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processor in executing the processing instructions further comprises defining bounding boxes for each word in the web page.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the processor in executing the processing instructions further comprises: identifying a user input event indicating a word selection in the web page; and automatically tagging the web page with the identified word selection.

16. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the processor in executing the processing instructions further comprises: identifying a user input event indicating highlighting of one or more words in the web page; and automatically highlighting the one or more words in the web page.

17. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the similarity measure is a unique identifier that uniquely identifies sub-document elements.

18. An apparatus for annotating documents, comprising: means for retrieving a document selected for display by a user; means for locating sub-document elements in content of the retrieved document; means for computing a similarity measure for each of the located sub-document elements; means for identifying similarity measures of annotated sub-document elements and the located sub-document elements that indicate a correspondence there between; means for augmenting the located sub-document elements of the retrieved document with annotations of those annotated sub-document elements that have comparable similarity measures; means for displaying the retrieved document augmented with annotations.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein said augmenting means associates each annotation of the structural elements with a name label comprising one or more of the user or a co-user.

20. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the document is a web page.

21. The apparatus according to claim 20, further comprising means for defining bounding boxes for each word in the web page.

22. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the processor in executing the processing instructions further comprises: means for identifying a user input event indicating a word selection in the web page; and means for automatically tagging the web page with the identified word selection.

23. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the processor in executing the processing instructions further comprises: means for identifying a user input event indicating highlighting of one or more words in the web page; and means for automatically highlighting the one or more words in the web page.

24. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the similarity measure is a unique identifier that uniquely identifies sub-document elements.

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