| 摘要 |
A method and a system for the visualization and/or vocalization, including for example, the incorporation by audio, of quantitative information about a document (e.g., a Web page) that may also reflect spatial pattern information. The present invention may operate with Web pages and other electronic documents over an information network such as the Internet. Alternative embodiments of the present invention may not need to operate with documents over an information network. According to the example embodiment, a target document (e.g., a Web page) is retrieved and a copy or snapshot may be made. Quantitative data is also obtained for the target document reflecting the quantitative metric to be visualized and/or vocalized. A scale for the quantitative data may be generated and used to assign data visualization and/or vocalization values. The copy or snapshot of the target document may then be altered to reflect the data visualization and/or vocalization of the quantitative metric according to the example embodiment of the present invention. For example, the data visualization and/or vocalization may include the use of color and/or brightness to reflect a quantitative metric such as the click through rate for hyperlinks on a Web page. Additional software may be used according to the example embodiment of the present invention and may include two Java programs: one Java program for making a copy or snapshot of the target document, and a second Java program for the data visualization and/or vocalization. In alternative embodiments of the present invention, a copy or snapshot of the target document is not used.
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