Patent Document ID: 8788494
Application ID: 12543881

Base Claim:
1. An electronic document browsing method, the method comprising steps of: creating, while the author is composing the electronic document, one or more queries according to content of the electronic document, and storing, in a computer, the created one or more queries with the electronic document, the created one or more queries including one or more of: keywords, keyword strings and questions, related to the content to the electronic document, the creating the queries including: calculating relevance degree of a term vector of a previous text segment and a term vector of a current text segment, the term vector of the previous text segment including a weight of each word included in the previous text segment, the term vector of the current text segment including a weight of each word included in the current text segment; if the relevance degree is higher than a threshold, decreasing the term vector of the previous text segment by values of multiplications of every weight of the each word of the previous text segment and an attenuation factor; merging the term vector of the previous text segment and the term vector of the current text segment; replacing the term vector of the previous text segment with the merged term vector; merging the previous text segment with the current text segment; and replacing the current text segment with the merged text segment; if the relevance degree is less than or equal to the threshold, replacing the term vector of the previous text segment with the term vector of the current text segment; and replacing the current text segment with the previous text segment; receiving, at the computer, a second query from a user; searching, by the computer, the created one or more queries which are same or related to the second query; presenting, by the computer, the user with the one or more searched queries which are same or related to the second query; reading, by the user, the one or more presented queries; selecting, by the user, one of the one or more presented queries; and presenting, by the computer, the user with the content of said electronic document corresponding to the selected query.

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Claim 12:
12. The electronic document browsing method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising: generating a text stream of the electronic document being composed extracting one or more features from the generated text stream, wherein the one or more queries are automatically created according to the content of the electronic document being composed and according to the extracted features.