Patent ID: 7650562

Claim:
A method of incrementally reducing space required for representing a text object, comprising: obtaining a text segment; automatically analyzing a content of the text segment after obtaining the text segment without a user's designation of a criteria for reducing the space occupied by the text segment; reducing the space occupied by the text segment based on the analysis by successively displaying reduced representations of the text segment wherein each reduced representation uses less space than space occupied by an immediately preceding reduced representation; and enhancing recognizability of each reduced representation by displaying animation of a transition to an intermediate display where more than one representation is at least partially visible at the same time, wherein the reduced representations change a literal content of the text segment, and the analysis includes (1) whether words in the text segment are subject or predicate, (2) whether the words are a modifier, (3) how many letters are in each word, (4) how many times each word is repeated in a source document or selected portion of the document, (5) position of the words in the sentences, and (6) whether one or more letters of each word are capitalized.