Patent ID: 9336185
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device, content of an electronic book; identifying, by the processing device, a start reading location within the content of the electronic book and a sample block comprising a percentage of the content following the start reading location; searching, by the processing device, a selected portion of content within the sample block to identify a last sentence end point and to identify a last paragraph end point; designating one of the last sentence end point or the last paragraph end point as an end point of the sample block in accordance with a set of rules comprising a first rule and a second rule, wherein the last paragraph end point is designated as the end point of the sample block in accordance with the first rule and wherein the last sentence end point is designated as the end point of the sample block in accordance with the second rule, and wherein the first rule is assigned a higher priority than the second rule; and storing an electronic book sample comprising the sample block ending at the designated end point.