1. A method for using a computer Discloses "an apparatus and method for searching and system, in response to a reader's retrieving text found in a database as a function of their request for display of electronic relevancy to a desired subject matter." See 1:12-15. text, to automatically identify and provide additional reading Further discloses that "[c]omputers are then utilized to material related to concepts access these databases in order to store additional new text referred to within said electronic and to retrieve old, stored texts." See 1:28-30. text comprising, in sequence, the steps of: 1.a. on a client system, "A user initiates a search by selecting and opening a file containing subject matter of particular interest. The computer system performs a natural recognition algorithm to determine the subject words of the document corresponding to the selected file." See 2:62-65. 1.a.1. accepting a request for Discloses a user sending a request for the display of an display of electronic text; electronic text by selecting a file. "A user initiates a search by selecting and opening a file containing subject matter of particular interest." See 2:62-63. 1.a.2. sending said request for Discloses a user system for retrieving electronic text display of electronic text over a documents. "In a Document Agent Search, a user specifies network; a reference document, and a search retrieves other similar and related documents from the database. FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the basic steps involved in a Document Agent Search. First, a user selects and opens a reference document which is of interest." See 7:59-64.
"Once a database has been selected, the user can select a
weighted keyword search, a weighted Boolean search, or a document agent search." See 5:21-24.
Further discloses that these retrieval requests may be
transmitted over a network. "Finally, computer system 100 can be a terminal in a computer network (i.e., a LAN)." See 4:60-63. 1.a.3. receiving said electronic Discloses that retrieved documents contain at least one text text, said electronic text section. See supra Claim 1.a.2. containing at least one text section; and “[A] user selects and opens a reference document which is of interest, step 701. The reference document is parsed into sentences, step 702. This can be accomplished by a determining period followed by two spaces and a capital letter.” See 7:64-67. 1.a.4. without further user input, Discloses sending a search request without further user
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http://patroll.unifiedpatents.com sending a search request over said input. "First, a user selects and opens a reference document network, from said client system, which is of interest, step 701. The reference document is for additional information related parsed into sentences, step 702. This can be accomplished to a concept referred to in said at by a determining period followed by two spaces and a least one text section; and capital letter." See 7:63-67.
Further discloses searching for additional information
related to the concept. "Based on the subject words of the reference document, the weighted relevance of the documents in the database is determined . . . Relevant documents are retrieved, ranked, and displayed according to their weighted relevance's, step 708." See 8:13-17. 1.b. on a server system, "all texts in the database" See 1:52. responsive to step (a.4) 1. b.1. searching an index, "Hence, all texts in the database containing a given wherein keyword are located by searching for that keyword in the alphabetical index and returning a set of reference numbers. Thereby, texts corresponding to the reference numbers are known to contain the keyword and are accessed via the computer." See 1:52-56. 1.b.1.i. said index contains a Discloses the index containing a plurality of terms. See plurality of terms by which it may supra Claim 1.b.1.i. be searched; 1.b.1.ii. substantially all terms in "Once all the subject words in the reference document have said index are associated with at been found, they are used in a statistical comparison least one pointer to a text section; algorithm to determine the relevancy of each file in a and database. A file's relevancy is a function of both the frequency of subject words occurring in that file and the distribution of the subject words within the database." See 3:3-8. 1.b.1.iii. at least one term in said Discloses terms which are associated with a plurality of index is associated with a pointers. See supra Claim 1.b.1.iii. plurality of pointers, at least two of said plurality of pointers pointing to different text sections; 1.b.2. as a result of step (b.1), Discloses identifying additional reading related to the identifying additional reading searched terms and the terms’ associated pointers. See material related to said concept; supra Claim 1.b.1.iii. and "The most relevant documents are displayed in at the top of the list, while those which are not as relevant are displayed in descending order." See 3:9-12. 1.b.3. providing, via the network, Disclosed by FIG. 4 and associated text. "The extension of to said client system, for display the bar indicates that document's degree of relevance to the on the same page as a portion of keyword(s). For example, a search based on the keyword the electronic text section referred WonderWidget 404 might result in the retrieval of three
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http://patroll.unifiedpatents.com to in step (a.3), an indicator of documents 405-407 . . . A data sheet 405 describing the said additional reading material product, which is highly relevant, is displayed at the top of identified in step (b.2). the list and has a relatively long bar." See 5:47-54.