Patent ID: 9323439
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A system for displaying published electronic documents, said system comprising: an electronic document database that stores electronic files representing a plurality of electronic documents; an electronic document display controller that displays, based on topical contents of said plurality of electronic documents, a graphic substrate upon which said plurality of electronic documents retrieved from said electronic document database is arranged; a user input controller that receives user input to manipulate said graphic substrate to control a zooming function and a panning function that displays said plurality of electronic documents within said graphic substrate, and associates input user information with a specific one of said plurality of electronic documents, said input user information comprising annotations for a shared use of different users to be displayed on said graphic substrate upon which the plurality of electronic documents is arranged, said annotations comprising annotations of said different users displayed on said graphic substrate; a scalable tiled graphic composite document rendering unit provided in said graphic substrate that displays information output from said electronic document display controller corresponding to said plurality of electronic documents based on a value of said zooming function and a value of said panning function; and a periodical selector that is configured to enable one of the users to select a particular issue periodical date to be displayed on said graphic substrate for each of said plurality of electronic documents displayed within the graphical substrate, wherein the electronic document display controller is configured to arrange all of said plurality of electronic documents retrieved from said electronic document database into groups based on predetermined criteria such that, in each of said groups, a page location of a query text inputted by said one of the users is displayed in each of said plurality of electronic documents retrieved from said electronic document database.