Patent ID: 6377947
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An information system for displaying documents, comprising:a) a memory; and b) one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory storing a set of computer instructions which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of: i) determining a plurality of sub-documents from the plurality of documents, each sub-document representing a portion less than the entirety of a document in the plurality of documents; ii) processing a query that operates on the plurality of sub-documents to cause a score to be generated for each sub-document, wherein each score is indicative of the relevance of the corresponding sub-document to the query; iii) ranking said sub-documents according to said corresponding relevance scores; iv) retrieving one of the plurality of documents comprising a sub-document having a corresponding ranked score; v) displaying said document such that said document is scrolled to a location of a first ranked sub-document within said document; and vi) displaying said document such that said document is scrolled to a second ranked sub-document within said document.