Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enlarging a selection region associated with selected information in a document displayed on a screen of a computing device
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Application No.: US14497522Application Date: 2014-09-26
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Publication No.: US09600156B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Cary L. Bates , Megan D. Kostick
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Francis Lammes; Stephen J. Walder, Jr.; Steven L. Bennett
- Main IPC: G06F3/0484
- IPC: G06F3/0484 ; G06F3/0485 ; G06F3/0488 ; G06F17/27

Abstract:
A mechanism is provided for enhancing a selection region for select information associated within a document. A document is analyzed to determine one or more pieces of information in the document that are likely to be selected by the user, wherein the one or more pieces of information are less than all of the information in the document. Responsive to the document failing to have been analyzed before, a selection region associated with each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information is enlarged by a first predetermined size amount thereby forming a respective region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information. The region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information is then recorded.
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