Patent Document ID: 9977780
Application ID: 14303656

Base Claim:
1. A computer program product for generating a language section from tabular data in an electronic document received from a client device via a network, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising: identifying, by a processor, in a first tabular portion of the electronic document, a set of categories used to organize tabular data; identifying, by the processor, contextual relationships between the tabular data, wherein the contextual relationships are created by the set of categories and the identifying is based in part on the position of each category in the set of categories in the first tabular portion and based on the tabular data that each category modifies; identifying, by the processor, a content characteristic for each category of the set of categories in the first tabular portion; and generating, by the processor, a first language section from at least two distinct categories of the set of categories, wherein a format of the first language section is based on the content characteristic and contextual relationships for each of the at least two distinct categories of the set of categories and is governed by a formatting table, wherein the formatting table comprises example combinations of content characteristics for example categories of an example tabular portion and formatting rules for generating example language sections from those example combinations.

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Claim 3:
3. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the first language section includes a first section title and wherein the method further comprises generating the first section title from the at least two distinct categories of the set of categories, the format of the first section title based on the content characteristic and contextual relationships for each of the at least two distinct categories of the set of categories.