Patent ID: 9519922
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for automatically identifying an electronic document, said method comprising: accessing, within an electronic device, said electronic document local to the electronic device; extracting text from said electronic document; generating, using circuitry, a signature based on said text of said electronic document by calculating a frequency of a term in said text of said electronic document; communicating said signature over a communication channel; receiving an identifier of said electronic document over said communication channel, wherein said identifier is determined by a server matching said signature against a signature library, the identifier being different from the signature, said matching being performed by determining whether an approximation of a cosine similarity value computed using Hamming distance function between said signature and a signature in the signature library is greater than a predetermined threshold; receiving a bookmark associated with said electronic document; and receiving, from the server, a recommendation based on the identifier of said electronic document, the recommendation being specific to the electronic document and different from the electronic document.