Abstract: An computer-readable apparatus and method for intelligently analyzing and highlighting key words/phrases, key sentences and/or key components of an electronic document by recognizing and utilizing the context of both the electronic document (which may be any type of electronic message such as e-mail, converted voice, fax or pager message or other type of electronic document) and the user. The apparatus and method produce an electronic output highlight document from a user's electronic input document. An application context module determine with respect to the input document the type of document it is. A user context module determines the context of the user with respect to the input document. A highlighter module determines at least a portion of the key content of the input document, up to a predetermined maximum data size, at least in part on the basis of the determinations made by the application and user context modules.

Abstract: A concept-based electronic document viewer system and method for presenting electronic documents (including emails, voice mails, facsimiles and documents identified by the results of an Internet web search engine) input from a source of input electronic documents according to their associated concepts, on a priority directed network (hierarchical) basis, on a user's electronic display screen. A concept recognizer component is configured for recognizing concepts and/or themes associated with content of the documents. A prioritization analyser component is configured for ordering the recognized concepts and/or themes according to priority. A viewer component is configured for presenting on the display a plurality of concept identifiers according to a directed network (hierarchical) configuration based on the priority ordering, wherein each concept identifier represents a concept or theme recognized by the concept recognizer.