US Patent 7454698 Digital document browsing system and method thereof

A digital document browsing system includes: a layout engine for determining the layout of a digital document based on previously obtained historical data for a display form of the digital document, a summarization engine for preparing a summary for the sentences of the digital document based on the historical data for the digital document. Further included is a view generator for arranging the summary obtained by the summarization engine in accordance with the layout, and for generating data relating to the display form of the digital document. A user interface for displaying the digital document on a display device based on the data related to the display form is still further included.