NAVIGATIONAL AID FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS

Patent №

US 9,720,914

Granted

2017-08-01

Filed 2014

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14523404

Systems, methods, and computer storage media are provided for generating rich navigational study aids for electronic books. For a particular section of interest in a document, one or more related sections for providing additional context to the particular section are determined. The related sections are ranked based on a score indicating significance to the particular section. Based on a user's information processing preference, a set of ranked navigational links to each related section is presented to the user for additional context related to the particular section.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.99
AI hardware0.91
Speech0.20
Vision0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 340890988

Assignors

AGRAWAL, RAKESH, KENTHAPADI, KRISHNARAM, KANNAN, ANITHA, GOLLAPUDI, SREENIVAS

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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