Patent ID: 7277879
Filing Date: 2007-10-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating navigation among concepts in a free-form data object, the method comprising: automatically identifying concepts in a free-form data object, the free-form data object including a plurality of different concepts and each concept having one or more concept instances in the free-form data object, wherein automatically identifying concepts in the free-form data object includes automatically identifying the concept instances corresponding to the concepts; generating a concept-navigable structure for navigating within the free-form data object, the concept-navigable structure associated with the free-form data object and configured to allow navigating among the automatically identified concept instances using the links in the concept-navigable structure, wherein generating the concept-navigable structure further comprises: sorting the concept instances according to position within the free-form data object to form a first sorted list; generating links between sequentially adjacent concept instances in the first sorted list;