Patent ID: 7207003

Claim:
A method in a data processing system for modifying original content of a document, the method comprising: receiving a request for modified content; in response to each receipt of said request, modifying said original content, using a set of rules to make selected content in said document invisible without degrading readability of said document to form a modified document, wherein rules in the set of rules comprise one of a rule to make words invisible, a rule to retain words, and a rule to replace words, wherein the rule to retain words comprises one or more of logic to keep by length, logic to keep by word attribute, logic to keep by number of syllables, logic to keep by grade level, logic to keep list of words, or logic to keep list of links, wherein one or more rules are selected from the set of rules to form a word policy, wherein one or more word policies are associated with one or more users and stored in a word policy database, wherein unmodified content in said modified document retaining its original physical and spatial characteristics after a portion of said content is modified, and wherein the selected content in the document being retained, replaced, or made invisible increases a speed at which a user can read the modified document relative to a speed at which at which the user can read the document without modifications; and displaying said modified document having said original physical and spatial characteristics for the unmodified content.