Patent ID: 11893337
Assignee: VIKAS BALWANT JOSHI
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 1:
2. A method, performed by a computing device, of generating graphical-browse-views of one or more parts of an article, the method comprising:
receiving the article having article-matter and the article-matter having points wherein a point is a unit of information expressed in one or more sentences, phrases, or words that are in the article-matter;
receiving point-names of individual points of the article, wherein a point-name is a short sentence, a trimmed sentence or a short phrase summary of a point; wherein a point-name is a low-level summary of the point, wherein a low-level summary of a point is a low-level summary of the article-matter covered by the point,
assigning the point-names to the individual points of the article,
receiving identification of one or more simple-groups, each simple-group having one or more points, wherein each simple-group covers the article-matter covered by the points that are in the simple-group;
receiving, for one or more simple-groups, a simple-group-name of each simple-group, wherein a simple-group-name is a short sentence, a trimmed sentence or a short phrase summary of a simple-group, wherein a simple-group-name is a mid-level summary of a simple-group, wherein a mid-level summary of a simple-group is a midlevel summary of the article-matter covered by the simple-group, wherein the simple-group-name covers the article-matter covered by the simple-group, and wherein the simple-group-name covers the point-names of the points that are in the simple-group;
receiving identification of one or more compound-groups, each compound-group having one or more points or one or more simple-groups or one or more compound-groups;
wherein a compound-group covers the sum of article matter covered by the compound-groups, the simple-groups and the points that are in the compound-group;
receiving, for one or more compound-groups, a compound-group-name of each compound-group,
wherein a compound-group-name is a short sentence, a trimmed sentence or a short phrase summary of the compound-group;
wherein a compound-group-name is a upper-level summary of the compound-group,
wherein an upper-level summary of a compound-group is an upper-level summary of the article-matter covered by the compound-group,
wherein the compound-group-name covers the article-matter covered by the compound-group, and
wherein the compound-group-name covers compound-groups, the simple-groups and points that are in the compound-group and their corresponding compound-group-names, simple-group-names, and point-names; and
wherein a compound-group, a simple-group or a point that is not contained by a compound-group or a simple-group is at the outermost level, and

generating a level-1 graphical-browse-view as a sequence of columns
wherein a column in the sequence contains
a summary of the article-matter covered by a compound-group that is at the outermost level, wherein the column is a compound-group-symbol
or
a point by point summary of the article-matter covered by a simple-group that is at the outermost level, wherein the column is a simple-group-symbol
or
a summary of the article-matter covered by one or more points that are at the outermost level, wherein the column is a point-symbols-column

and
for one or more compound-groups,
generating a graphical-browse-view for each compound-group,
wherein the compound group is a parent,

by generating a sequence of columns
wherein a column in the sequence contains
a summary of the article-matter covered by a compound-group that is directly contained by the parent, wherein the column is a compound-group-symbol
or
a point by point summary of the article-matter covered by a simple-group that is directly contained by the parent, wherein the column is a simple-group-symbol
or
a summary of the article-matter covered by one or more points that are directly contained by the parent, wherein the column is a point-symbols-column

wherein
a graphical-browse-view is associated with a hierarchical level
wherein the hierarchical level is one of level-1, level-2, level-3 etc.
wherein level-1 is the highest level and wherein

a level-2 graphical-browse-view is
a graphical-browse-view that is generated for a compound-group
wherein the level-1 graphical-browse-view contains the compound-group-symbol that represents the compound-group

a level-3 graphical-browse-view is
a graphical-browse-view that is generated for a compound-group
wherein a level-2 graphical-browse-view contains the compound-group-symbol that represents the compound-group

and
for a graphical-browse-view,
generating a miniature icon that includes
a miniature icon for a compound-group-symbol that is in the graphical-browse-view,
a miniature icon for a simple-group-symbol that is in the graphical-browse-view,
a miniature icon for a point-symbols-column that is in the graphical-browse-view,

and
displaying a graphical-browse-view on the display
and displaying the miniature icon for the graphical-browse-view on the display.