Patent Document ID: 8880994
Application ID: 13871313

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for outputting and organizing user-annotated content from a first electronic document to a second electronic document, said method comprising the steps of: receiving the first electronic document, wherein the first electronic document comprises one or more content items; loading the first electronic document into a computer readable medium; creating a new blank electronic document, the blank new electronic document comprising the second electronic document, which second electronic document is capable of receiving content from the first electronic document; storing the second electronic document within the computer readable medium; allowing a user to produce at least one annotation by using at least one indication means that is applied to the one or more content items within the first electronic document, which said at least one indication means is selected by the user from a plurality of indication means comprising at least one of underlining, italicizing, bolding, striking, highlighting, coloring, circling, and free-hand drawing; in response to the user producing the at least one annotation, automatically and without further user intervention, outputting only the at least one annotation from the first electronic document directly to the second electronic document to generate content within the second electronic document; and organizing the at least one annotation outputted to the second electronic document within at least one grouping, wherein the user may associate the at least one indication means of the plurality of indication means with a user-associated content category, and wherein each at least one grouping corresponds to at most one user-associated content category and each at least one grouping contains each at least one annotation corresponding to the user-associated content category corresponding thereto, and wherein the at least one grouping comprises the user-associated content category and at least one of the at least one annotation corresponding thereto, and wherein the second electronic document displays the at least one outputted annotation with or without its associated indication means.

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Claim 4:
4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the user may manipulate the at least one annotation within the second electronic document by moving the at least one annotation within a grouping of the at least one grouping or by moving the at least one annotation from a first grouping of the at least one grouping to a second grouping of the at least one grouping.