Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130055140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A system and a method facilitating navigation in an electronic device and for enabling users of electronic devices to navigate quickly, smoothly, and naturally through electronic books and other documents using multi-touch gestures on a touch sensitive surface of the electronic device. The multi-touch gestures are movements of the multiple touches such as, preferably, a two-finger slide or flick gesture. This gesture is interpreted by the system as a command to navigate to the next or to a previous section of the electronic document, for example, the next chapter in a book or an article or section in a magazine. The device has firmware and/or software capable of analyzing and interpreting the motion, and forwarding the analyzed contents or interpretation to an appropriate software application or other software subsystem that associates the gestures with a set of commands. | 02-28-2013 |
20130091467 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING MENU OPTIONS - A system and a method for performing an action with respect to an item selected by a user on a display screen of an electronic device. In a preferred embodiment, the display screen is a touchscreen and the user selects an item, e.g., a portion of text or a file by touching a thumb or finger down on the item. The user pauses very briefly before dragging the item. After the pause, a small icon representing the selected item appears and a first row of options appears just above or below the item. This first row of options contains the various functions that can be performed with the item. The user then drags the item to the option which she would like to perform. As the icon of the item being dragged by the user reaches the desired option, a second set of sub options, if any, associated with the first option appears. This process can be repeated for as many levels of sub options that exist for the particular action to be performed on the selected item. | 04-11-2013 |
20130117410 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING CONCURRENT READERS OF AN ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION - A system and method for use in connection with a reader for digital publication, such as electronic books, eBooks, or electronic magazines or newspapers. The system and method determines readers that are currently reading a specific section of a specific electronic publication and determines the location of those readers, The system and method then generates a. map, such as an image of the United States of America, or a globe, or even a simple text listing, that illustrates everyone else in a given geographic region (possibly the whole world) that is currently reading, or has recently finished reading, the specific part of the digital publication. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117667 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN CONTENT DISCUSSIONS - Systems and methods for permitting in-content discussions regarding electronic content are described. The present invention allow users of digital publication readers to share comments regarding specific parts of an electronic publication with other users that are concurrently reading or have previously read those parts. In this manner, the invention provides users the ability to share their feelings or thoughts about electronic publications and, in so doing, significantly enhance their knowledge and reading experience. | 05-09-2013 |
20130125016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING CONTENT BETWEEN DEVICES - A system and a method for transferring content between devices are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, users lay their electronic devices (such as content reading devices, mobile tablets or smart phones) side by side and use a touch screen to “slide” or “swipe” digital content (e.g., via finger swiping of a book cover) from one device to the other. The devices automatically pair with one another based on certain pairing criteria detected contemporaneously with slide or swipe of digital content. If the pairing criteria are satisfied, the digital content is transferred. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132237 | SYSTEM AND METHOD DETERMINING AND DISPLAYING ACTIONS TAKEN ON DIGITAL CONTENT - A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for determining and displaying actions taken on content displayed on one or more maps provided on a display screen of an electronic device. The actions taken with respect to the content include actions performed by users in the system. The one or more maps include geographic maps and social maps. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ELECTRONIC READER THAT ALLOWS ACCESS TO ADDITIONAL CONTENT AND TOOLS - A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for controlling display of content on an electronic device with a touch screen display, which content may, in response to detection of a squeeze gesture, be reduced on the display screen to reveal additional content, tools and features associated with the one or more pages of the content. | 05-23-2013 |
20130134213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT INFORMATION - A system and method of associating an NFC tag to a product and transmitting information about the product are described. An electronic device is used to scan a generic NFC tag affixed to a product to obtain a unique ID code as well as other indicia identifying the product itself, such as a bar code. The unique ID and bar code are then transmitted to a central server, where they are associated with one another and stored in a database. Once associated, a customer may use a separate electronic device, such as a mobile phone or tablet, to scan a product of interest, transmit the unique ID code to the central server, and retrieve from the central server information about the product. | 05-30-2013 |
20130152011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING IN AN ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION - A system and method for navigating electronic using controls on a touch screen of a reading device. The controls allow the user to quickly skim, scan, and scroll through all the sections of the publication with short slides of a thumb or finger. The controls preferably take the form of a strip displayed along an edge, e.g., the bottom, of the touch screen device used for reading the publication. A second control can be formed along another edge of the touch screen, e.g., right or left edge, to enable the user to rapidly skim through all of the articles contained in a selected section. | 06-13-2013 |
20130333055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERENCE OF RIGHTS TO DIGITAL MEDIA VIA PHYSICAL TOKENS - A system and method for transferring digital content includes a physical token incorporating a Near Field Communication (“NFC”) tag that represents a virtual gift of digital content such as an eBook. The tag can include a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that can be used to gain access to the electronic content which can be stored on a remote server. A unique identifier on the tag is associated with gifted digital content. This association is preferably stored on a remote server in the “cloud”. A user receiving the physical and places it on or next to their electronic device, which includes an NFC receiver, and the device reads the tag and connects to the remote server. The remote server validates the information on the token and provides the user with access to the digital content, such as downloading the digital content to the user's electronic device. | 12-12-2013 |
20140026055 | Accessible Reading Mode Techniques For Electronic Devices - Techniques are disclosed for providing accessible reading modes in electronic computing devices. The user can transition between a manual reading mode and an automatic reading mode using a transition gesture. The manual reading mode may allow the user to navigate through content, share content with others, aurally sample and select content, adjust the reading rate, font, volume, or configure other reading and/or device settings. The automatic reading mode facilitates an electronic device reading automatically and continuously from a predetermined point with a selected voice font, volume, and rate, and only responds to a limited number of command gestures that may include scrolling to the next or previous sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, section or other content boundary. For each reading mode, earcons may guide the selection and/or navigation techniques, indicate content boundaries, confirm user actions or selections, or to otherwise provide an intuitive and accessible user experience. | 01-23-2014 |
20140026101 | Accessible Menu Navigation Techniques For Electronic Devices - Techniques are disclosed for providing an accessible menu navigation mode in electronic computing devices. The user can engage a manual reading mode, using a manual reading mode activation gesture, wherein the user may navigate through content, share content, or change reading rate, font, volume, or other device settings. The user may navigate through a menu structure using menu navigation gestures and the menu and sub-menu options may be read aloud to the user as they are navigated through. A selection gesture may allow the user to enable or adjust various menu and sub-menu options, and an earcon or sound effect may guide the navigation process and/or confirm a menu selection. The user may configure the navigation gestures and option selection gestures. The menu options may be structured to allow a user to access content navigation options with upward swipe gestures and access device settings using downward swipe gestures. | 01-23-2014 |
20140258911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND VIEWING COMIC BOOK ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS - A system and method for enhancing electronic comic book reading by dynamically expanding text bubbles (“bubbles”) to make them easier to read, especially on a small mobile device. The method s include skimming a sequence of expanded bubbles, flinging through a sequence of expanded bubbles and positioning expanded bubbles so as not to hide the comic character(s) uttering the phrase. The methods are performed with irregular bubble outlines (like curly, bumpy, or jagged text bubbles commonly found in comics). Further the method includes pre-processing the content in an automated fashion to enable skimming and flinging through the sequences of expanded bubbles. | 09-11-2014 |
20140380244 | VISUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for engaging and displaying a visual table of contents in electronic touch sensitive devices. The user can engage the visual table of contents by, for example, performing an activation gesture, such as an inward two-contact pinch gesture. The visual table of contents may display the paginated content to the user as a grid of image tiles, each image corresponding to a page or spread of pages. Each page of content may be accompanied by its appropriate page number. The visual table of contents may display the paginated content as page spreads, wherein each page is paired with its opposite facing page. The user may scroll through the visual table of contents if the device screen is not large enough to display all of the pages on a single screen. Selecting a page from the table of contents may display the selected page to the user. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380247 | TECHNIQUES FOR PAGING THROUGH DIGITAL CONTENT ON TOUCH SCREEN DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for providing a page flipping mode in electronic touch sensitive devices. The user can engage the page flipping mode by performing an activation gesture, which causes the device to display a magazine page flipping mode or a fast page flipping mode. The page flipping modes may show paginated content such as an opened book or magazine in a single stack or side-by-side layout. The fast page flipping modes may show a single page lying relatively flat or somewhat curled with the edges of subsequent pages visible at the right edge of the page. A page flipping gesture may prompt an animation showing one or more pages folding up to display subsequent pages to the user. In some cases, the number of pages being flipped and/or the speed at which the pages are flipped, is dependent upon the speed and/or length and/or duration of the page flipping gesture. | 12-25-2014 |