Patent ID: 7478322

Claim:
A method for reading text on hypertext pages, in which received pages are decoded and a certain reading portion of a page, indicated by a cursor, is enlarged onto a display used as an output device, wherein shift commands are defined in order to use the method, the method comprising: preprocessing the pages in order to read the text portion in them, dividing the display into a navigation pane and a read pane; placing an overall view of at least one decoded page to the navigation pane; storing language specific rules of syntax in a memory; sequentially processing the text, based on the stored language specific rules of syntax, to identify a start element and end element, selecting a first text portion between the start element and end element as the reading portion and placing the selected portion on the read pane, and further processing connected portions of the selected text for a new start element and a new end element and selecting the text portion between the new start element and new end element of a second text portion and placing the selected contiguous portion on the read pane, if a shift command is received.