Title:
PROGRESSIVE REFERENCE SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2006036782
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A written document (hereinafter referred to as a "work," on electronic format which includes, stories, novels, education texts, biographies, compilations, collections, anthologies, tracts, and any other traditional format for relatively extensive texts) provides access to reference, bibliography and/or definition material through an electronic software capability associated with the work. Depending upon reader access information or characteristics (e.g., age, grade, proficiency, or position within the work or any other identifiable reader characteristic or access limitation), any request for reference material, definitions, explanations, translations, or other material provided in the associated software capability is automatically limited by system acknowledgement of the reader access information or characteristics. As the reader's access information or characteristics change, the quality and/or quantity and/or format of requested information with respect to a work changes.
Inventors:
SHERMAN KENNETH N (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2005/034125
Publication Date:
July 27, 2006
Filing Date:
September 23, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SHERMAN KENNETH N (US)
International Classes:
G06F17/21; G06F17/28
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