Kobo Inc. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160085391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USER E-BOOK COLLECTIONS - Examples described herein enable a user to organize and manage e-books on a computing device that utilizes a network-based e-book service. According to some examples, a user e-book collection can be organized so that it can be displayed when archived, as well as in accordance with user-defined lists. | 03-24-2016 |
20150347403 | GESTURE CONTROLLED CONTENT SUMMARIZATION FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE - A computing device operates to detect a gesture input while displaying text content. The gesture input is interpreted as correlating to a summarization command. A summary of the text content is displayed based on the summarization command. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346928 | PROVIDING E-BOOK CONTENT TO DEVICES USING ONE OF MULTIPLE FORMATS - A method and system for providing e-book content is described. A position in a content of an e-book is determined. The position can indicate when a user stopped consuming the content on a first computing device associated with the user. At least a remaining portion of the content subsequent to the position can be divided into multiple portions. A first portion of the multiple portions can be provided to a second computing device associated with the user using one of multiple formats. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346894 | COMPUTING DEVICE THAT IS RESPONSIVE TO USER INTERACTION TO COVER PORTION OF DISPLAY SCREEN - A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable and a set of touch sensors are provided with the display assembly. A processor is provided within the housing to detect a user interaction with the set of touch sensors. The processor further determines, based on the user interaction, that at least a threshold percentage of the screen of the display assembly is covered and executes one or more instructions based, at least in part, upon determining that the at least threshold percentage of the screen is covered. For example, the one or more instructions may include instructions for powering off the computing device, displaying a screen saver on the screen, placing the computing device in a sleep mode, and/or changing a state of the screen of the display assembly. | 12-03-2015 |
20150317050 | E-BOOK GIFTING - A computing device displays a user activatable trigger along with a content portion of the e-book when the e-book is rendered for reading. The computing device detects activation of the trigger by user input. The computing device generates communication for a network service from which the e-book is available for download. The generated communication can include an identifier for each of the e-book, the user, and a recipient. According to some embodiments, at least a portion of the communication corresponding to the identifier of the e-book is identified and automatically provided as part of the communication. The communication can then be transmitted the network service. | 11-05-2015 |
20150304387 | PERFORMING SYNCHRONIZED E-BOOK ACTIVITIES BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF DEVICES - A computing device can establish a wireless connection with at least one other computing device using a shared network. The computing device can display a portion of content of an e-book and receive user input for interacting with the displayed portion of content. In response to receiving the user input, the computing device performs an e-book activity with respect to the displayed portion based on the user input, and concurrently transmits, to the at least one other computing device using the wireless connection, a control signal that causes the at least one other computing device to perform an identical corresponding e-book activity on a corresponding portion of content displayed on the at least one other computing device. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC PERIODICALS ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A computing device operates to receive a current issue of an electronic periodical. In response to receiving the current issue, the computing device performs one or more actions to remove at least the content portion of at least one prior issue of the electronic periodical that was download on the computing device. Metadata content is displayed to represent a collection of issues for the electronic periodical that were acquired for download for an account associated with the computing device. The collection of issues includes the current issue and at least one prior issue the electronic periodical. The metadata content that is displayed to represent the collection can be based at least in part on a metadata portion of the current issue. | 10-22-2015 |
20150286342 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING APPLICATION DATA THROUGH TILE OBJECTS - A computing device operates to associate each of multiple applications with a corresponding tile object. Each of the multiple applications are executed to generate application data, which is displayed in the corresponding tile object. The tile object for each of multiple applications is displayed at one time. A size of a first tile object for a first application can be increased in response to user input while the tile objects for at least some of the other applications is displayed. | 10-08-2015 |
20150282277 | MULTI-COLORED DISPLAY ILLUMINATION CONTROL FOR E-READING - A computing device that includes a programmatically controlled front light. The front light cast light onto a display surface and/or other region of the computing device, for purpose of providing illumination and/or lighting effect. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277495 | MULTI-COLORED DISPLAY ILLUMINATION CONTROL FOR INDICATING DEVICE STATUS AND/OR ACTIVITY - A computing device that includes a programmatically controlled front light. The front light cast light onto a display surface and/or other region of the computing device, for purpose of providing illumination and/or lighting effect. | 10-01-2015 |
20150234786 | E-READER DEVICE TO DISPLAY CONTENT FROM DIFFERENT RESOURCES ON A PARTITIONED DISPLAY AREA - An e-reader application is executed on a computing device in order to display a content from a first e-book. The e-reader application includes a first set of features for use with the first e-book. While displaying the content from the first e-book, a partition is implemented that segments a display area of a display into a first segment and a second segment. The partition is further implemented by providing the content and the set of features on only the first segment, and enabling selection of another resource from a plurality of possible resources using the e-reader application. In response to selection of the other resource, content is displayed based on the selected other resource on only the second segment of the display area. | 08-20-2015 |
20150227509 | PROVIDING TRANSLATION OF A TEXT ITEM FROM A DISPLAYED PORTION OF TEXT CONTENT - A portion of a text content from a content item is displayed within a display area of a display of a computing device. A text item from the portion of the text content and a target language are identified from user input. A translation of the identified text item is retrieved from a network service in the target language. The translation of the identified text item is displayed within a boundary of the display area and concurrently with the portion of the text content. | 08-13-2015 |
20150227263 | PROCESSING A PAGE-TRANSITION ACTION USING AN ACOUSTIC SIGNAL INPUT - A computing device includes a housing, a display assembly having a screen, and a processor to display at least a portion of an initial page state for a paginated content item. A tactile interface is provided on a surface of the housing to produce a plurality of acoustic signals based on user interactions. An audio input device is provided with a portion of the housing to detect the acoustic signals produced by the tactile interface. The processor is to interpret the plurality of acoustic signals produced by the tactile interface as a plurality of user inputs, respectively, wherein one or more acoustic signals of a first type correspond with a page turn instruction. The processor further responds to acoustic signals of the first type by transitioning from displaying at least the initial page state to displaying another page state as determined by a value or type of the page turn. | 08-13-2015 |
20150220503 | COMPUTING DEVICE THAT PROVIDES AN ENHANCEMENT MODE FOR USERS WITH READING DISABILITIES - A computing device provides a dyslexic enhancement mode. The dyslexic enhancement mode includes multiple dyslexic enhancement features that adjust the text content to facilitate ability of the user with dyslexia to read the text content. Additionally, the computing device provides an interface to enable the user to enter input to select and I specify values for individual dyslexic enhancement features. The computing device can configure implementation of the dyslexic enhancement mode based on the input provided by the user. | 08-06-2015 |
20150220253 | VARYING TRANSLUCENCY OF A GRAPHIC IMAGE OF AN E-BOOK TO INDICATE READING PROGRESS - A computing device to vary a translucency of a graphic representation of an e-book (e.g., iconic digital book cover) to reflect an activity or status, such as a user's progress in reading the e-book. | 08-06-2015 |
20150220227 | E-READER DEVICE WITH FEATURE TO PROVIDE CATEGORY-SPECIFIC HIGHLIGHTS OF TEXT ITEMS IN AN E-BOOK - A computing device that operates as an e-reader device on which category-specific highlights and annotations can be provided by a user. | 08-06-2015 |
20150178812 | ELECTRONIC LIBRARY FOR DISPLAYING BOOK TITLE COLLECTION - An electronic library can include book titles that the user owns, such as downloaded or archived e-books that are purchased from a network service, and book titles that the user has identified as having been read. In this way, the user's library can reflect the book titles that the user has previously read even though the user does not own or have right to possess a corresponding e-book. | 06-25-2015 |
20150149950 | COMPUTING DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE HOUSING FOR DETECTING PLACEHOLDER INPUT IN CONNECTION WITH A PAGE TURNING ACTION - A computing device includes a housing, a display assembly having a screen, and a touch sensor provided with a portion of the housing. The processor operates to display at least a portion an initial page state for an e-book. The processor interprets one or more user actions of a first type as a page turn, and then responds to the first type of user action by transitioning from displaying at least the initial page state to displaying another page state as determined by a value of the page turn. The processor also interprets user action of a second type as a placeholder. In response to interpreting the user action of the second type as the placeholder, the processor determines a given page state that coincides with the placeholder, and automatically return to displaying the given page state upon completion of an event or condition. | 05-28-2015 |
20150145781 | DISPLAYING A PANEL OVERLAY ON A COMPUTING DEVICE RESPONSIVE TO INPUT PROVIDED THROUGH A TOUCH-SENSITIVE HOUSING - A computing device that can interpret touch input provided on a housing of the computing device in order to draw or otherwise provide one content panel relative to another content panel. | 05-28-2015 |
20150117159 | INTERMEDIATE COMPUTING DEVICE THAT USES NEAR-FIELD ACOUSTIC SIGNALS TO CONFIGURE AN END-USER DEVICE - An intermediate device is operated to play back an acoustic configuration file for an end-user device. The acoustic configuration file can embed configuration parameters that are detectable by the end-user device. In particular, the end-user device can use the configuration parameters in conjunction with performing select operations, such as operations to configure the end-user device for communication with the network service. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117158 | USING NEAR-FIELD ACOUSTIC SIGNALS TO CONFIGURE END-USER DEVICES - A network service is provided that embeds encodes acoustic data to carry configuration parameters for configuring an end-user device. The network service then transmits or causes transmission of an acoustic signal carrying the configuration parameters to the end-user device. The end-user device detects information items corresponding to configuration parameters embedded in the acoustic data. The end-user device utilizes the configuration parameters in connection with performing select operations. | 04-30-2015 |
20150095834 | QUOTATION INTERFACE FOR E-BOOKS - A computing device for rendering e-books, from which quotations can be selected and used to create content items. The content item can further be provided with configurations that enable the user to personalize the appearance of a selected quotation. | 04-02-2015 |
20150091812 | CONTROLLING A COMPUTING DEVICE USING A TAP SEQUENCE AS USER INPUT - A computing device detects a tap sequence that is provided by a user as input on a housing of the computing device. The tap sequence includes multiple taps, and each tap in the sequence corresponding to an object of the user (e.g., finger or stylus) impacting the housing. From the tap sequence, the computing device determines one or more characteristics of the tap sequence. The computing device selects a command based at least in part on the number of taps in the sequence, and the computing device performs an operation based on the command. | 04-02-2015 |
20150089438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUPING APPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION RESOURCES ON AN INTERFACE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Multiple groupings of application resources are displayed on, for example, an application launch interface of the computing device. Each of the multiple groupings may be associated with a corresponding category from the plurality of categories. Each application resource of each of the multiple groupings can be provided for use with one of the plurality of applications that is installed on the computing device and which is associated with the category of its grouping. The groupings of application resources can be treated as a single object in response to input. | 03-26-2015 |
20150084966 | FONT RENDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Examples described herein include a computing device that enables users to provide input to affect a particular manner in which a particular font is displayed. In particular, the user input can after a line weight and/or sharpness of a selected font. | 03-26-2015 |
20140337776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USER E-BOOK COLLECTIONS - Examples described herein enable a user to organize and manage e-books on a computing device that utilizes a network-based e-book service. According to some examples, a user e-book collection can be organized so that it can be displayed when archived, as well as in accordance with user-defined lists. | 11-13-2014 |
20130254683 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING PROFILES - Methods and systems for managing profiles for electronic content. The methods and systems may involve profiles for a plurality of electronic content items. If a user interaction with an electronic content item of the plurality of electronic content items meets an event definition, the user interaction may be identified as an event associated with the electronic content and recorded in the profile. | 09-26-2013 |