Patent ID: 9569409
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of citing at least one portion of interest within a document, the document capable of existing and being presented to a reader either electronically or in a hard copy form in a plurality of differing formatting instances, and thereby capable of appearing to the reader in a plurality of differing words per page and differing total page numbers despite the fact that a number of words, a number of sentences, and a number of paragraphs for the document is unvarying, the method comprising: selecting an unvarying attribute of the document selected from the group consisting of the: (i) number of words, (ii) number of sentences, and (iii) number of paragraphs, in the document, the unvarying attribute comprising the number of words, the number of sentences and the number of paragraphs from a starting point associated with the document; assigning a sequence number to each (i) word, (ii) sentence, and (iii) paragraph in the document, the sequence number ranging from one to the total number of (i) words, (ii) sentences, and (iii) paragraphs in the document based on the starting point associated with the document; identifying, by a range of sequence numbers, one or more (i) words; (ii) sentences, or (iii) paragraphs in the document dependent upon the assigned sequence number; utilizing the identified range of sequence numbers of the one or more (i) words; (ii) sentences, and (iii) paragraphs to identify content of interest in the document; and locating the content of interest within the document using the identified range of sequence numbers, irrespective of a formatting instance for the document.