Method and apparatus for facilitating directed reading of document portions based on information-sharing relevance

摘要

One embodiment provides a system to facilitate directed reading of a selected portion of an original document by a recipient. During operation, the system creates (400) a transfer document (170) based at least on the original document and the selected portion. The transfer document, when viewed by the recipient, enables the following operations: opening (410) the transfer document to the selected portion without requiring manual navigation to the selected portion, highlighting (420) the selected portion, obscuring (430) a context surrounding the selected portion based at least on a distance metric from the selected portion, and directly navigating (440) from one highlighted portion to another highlighted portion in the transfer document without requiring manual navigation within obscured contexts. After the system creates the transfer document, it sends the transfer document to the recipient.