Patent ID: 7181683

Claim:
A method of summarizing a markup-type document automatically, the method comprising: retrieving a markup-type document including at least one page associated with a plurality of elements, each of the elements inserted between tags as a content; establishing weights of the tags respectively in advance; establishing a weight of each of the at least one page in accordance with a depth of each of the at least one page constructing the markup-type document; computing final weights for the respective elements of the markup-type document by applying the previously established weights thereto; arranging the elements in a manner that the element having the computed weight of a higher order is arranged with priority; and generating a summary document with contents of the elements in accordance with individual priorities of the elements, wherein a weight of at least one class of category is further established, and the final weights of the elements are computed by multiplying the respective weights of the tags, the weight of each of the at least one page in accordance with a depth of each of the at least one page, and the weight of the at least one class of category.