Patent ID: 9697499
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a user, a user highlight of a portion of an electronic book; accessing a store of highlights previously received from a community of users who highlighted portions of the electronic book; determining that the user highlight exceeds a predetermined length; comparing the user highlight with the previously received highlights to determine whether the user highlight matches one or more of the previously received highlights at least partly in response to the determination that a length of the user highlight exceeds the predetermined length; determining whether a number of previously received highlights matches exceeds the threshold; and in an event that the number of the previously received highlights matches exceeds the threshold, generating the highlight match indicator to inform the user that other users within the community of users have also entered corresponding highlights, the highlight match indicator comprising a count of the number of other users within the community of users who have also entered corresponding highlights.