Patent Document ID: 8788494
Application ID: 12543881
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
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.