Patent ID: 7730423

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing a plurality of documents, the method comprising: generating for display a graphical user interface (GUI) containing a document viewing region; generating for display a plurality of first document images in the document viewing region, each first document image showing a first view of at least a portion of contents of a respective document in a plurality of documents, the selection of one of said first document images causing a second document image to be displayed at approximately the location of the first view in the document viewing region such that substantially only a second view of the selected document is displayed, the second document image corresponding to the contents of the entire respective document and showing the second view of a portion of contents of the respective document, the second document image having associated therewith a scrolling mechanism configured to allow a user to scroll through any contents of the second document image not initially shown in the second view; generating for display a set of predetermined concepts in the GUI, each of the plurality of documents relating to at least one of a plurality of possible concepts; analyzing each word contained within a user-readable portion of each of the plurality of documents to determine a level of relevance of each document with respect to each of the set of predetermined concepts; and in response to receiving a selection of a first predetermined concept from the set of predetermined concepts: displaying a relevancy indicator for each first document image displayed in the document viewing region where the document associated with that first document image is determined to be relevant to the selected predetermined concept, at least one aspect of the relevancy indicator being determined at least in part by the determined level of relevance of the associated document; wherein the second document image is displayed that is determined to be relevant to the selected predetermined concept, highlighting at least part of a user-readable portion of the second document image that includes at least one word determined to be relevant to the selected first predetermined concept; and wherein the document viewing region is a document closet image.