APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-BASED HIGHLIGHTING OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT

An computer-readable apparatus and method for intelligently analyzing and highlighting key words/phrases, key sentences and/or key components of an electronic document by recognizing and utilizing the context of both the electronic document (which may be any type of electronic message such as e-mail, converted voice, fax or pager message or other type of electronic document) and the user. The apparatus and method produce an electronic output highlight document from a user's electronic input document. An application context module determine with respect to the input document the type of document it is. A user context module determines the context of the user with respect to the input document. A highlighter module determines at least a portion of the key content of the input document, up to a predetermined maximum data size, at least in part on the basis of the determinations made by the application and user context modules. Output highlight document producing means produces the output document from the key content.