Patent Document ID: 7899812
Application ID: 12133844

Base Claim:
1. A system for interactive browsing, wherein the system is coupled to a knowledge base and a document database, the knowledge base stores a plurality of terms and information relating to each term, and the document database stores a plurality of documents, the system comprises: term acquiring means, for acquiring one or more terms in which a user has interest; first extracting means, for extracting information relating to the one or more terms in which the user has interest from the knowledge base; second extracting means, for extracting documents containing the one or more terms in which the user has interest from the document database; a first display part in a user interface, for displaying information extracted by the first extracting means; and a second display part in the user interface, for displaying a list of the documents extracted by the second extracting means; wherein the information extracted by the first extracting means and the list of the documents extracted by the second extracting means are concurrently displayed in the same user interface such that: (i) selection by the user of a portion of the information displayed in the first display part effectuates a change in the list of documents displayed in the second display part; and (ii) selection by the user of a term in the list of documents displayed in the second display part effectuates a change in the information displayed in the first display part.

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Claim 3:
3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the information relating to each term comprises at least one of the property and relation of the term.