Generation and distribution of device experience

• US 10,108,307 B1
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hu, Luhui, Garton, Lian R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Levy, Amy M
• Application Number:
  US13/469,565
• Time in Patent Office: 2,356 Days
• Field of Search: 715744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/065 Replication mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4843 by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4868 with creation or replication

Abstract

User devices such as electronic book readers may be configured to provide a particular device experience. This device experience may comprise settings of a user interface, states of one or more applications or modules executing on the device, timing of events, and so forth. Settings, state information, timing, and so forth describing the device experience may be stored as an experience template. This experience template may be distributed to other user devices, allowing those other devices to experience the same or similar experiences.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a clock;

at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions;

at least one processor configured to access the clock and the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to;

capture an interaction sequence resulting from a plurality of user interactions with the system;

determine first data indicative of a plurality of recorded changes over time to;

a) one or more user interface settings, and b) one or more states of one or more modules;

determine second data indicative of an order of execution of the plurality of recorded changes;

determine timing data representing time intervals between individual changes of the plurality of recorded changes;

generate interaction sequence data using the first data, the second data, the timing data, at least a portion of user interface settings information, and at least a portion of state information for the one or more modules, wherein the interaction sequence data is representative of the interaction sequence;

determine a first formatting associated with inputs from a first type of input/output device for association with a first experience template;

generate the first experience template associated with the interaction sequence and the first formatting, the first experience template comprising at least the portion of the user interface settings information, at least the portion of the state information, and the interaction sequence data;

implement the first experience template by causing the plurality of recorded changes to be executed in accordance with the order of execution, the respective time intervals, and the first formatting;

cause a visualization of the plurality of recorded changes being executed, wherein the implementation of the first experience template results in;

a same final user interface setting, and a same final module state as the interaction sequence;

generate a second experience template based at least in part on the first experience template;

determine a second formatting for association with the second experience template;

cause an operation of the set of operations to be executed, at least in part, using a second type of input/output device when the second experience template is implemented on a second user device; and

implement the second experience template.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the timing data is determined at least in part using time stamps associated with the individual changes of the plurality of recorded changes indicated by the clock.

3. The system of claim 1, the one or more modules comprising one or more of an electronic book reader module configured to present electronic books, a player module configured to present audio or video media content, a word processing module configured to edit text, or an internet browser module configured to present information retrieved from a server.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of recorded changes is triggered by user input.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of recorded changes comprise accessing and presenting a first portion of content and subsequently accessing and presenting a second different portion of the content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more states of the one or more modules include module state information indicative of a window display position of the one or more modules relative to a display of a device.

7. A method comprising:

detecting, by one or more computer processors coupled to at least one memory, a startup condition;

retrieving, responsive to detecting the startup condition, a first experience template, wherein the first experience template comprises interaction sequence data representative of an interaction sequence resulting from a plurality of user interactions with a device, the first experience template generated by;

determining first data indicative of a plurality of changes to at least one of;

a) one or more user interface settings, and b) one or more states of one or more modules;

determining second data indicative of an order of execution of the plurality of changes;

determining timing data representing time intervals between individual changes of the respective plurality of user interactions;

generating interaction sequence data using the first data, the second data, the timing data, at least a portion of user interface settings information, and at least a portion of state information for the one or more modules, wherein the interaction sequence data is representative of the interaction sequence; and

determining a first formatting associated with inputs from a first type of input/output device for association with the first experience template;

determining a second formatting for association with a second experience template, such that implementation of the second experience template causes the interaction sequence to be executed, at least in part, using a second type of input/output device when implemented on a second user device;

implementing the first experience template by causing the plurality of changes to be executed in accordance with the order of execution, the respective time intervals, and the first formatting; and

causing a visualization of the plurality of recorded changes being executed and a same final user interface setting and a same final module state as the interaction sequence.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising receiving approval from a user prior to the implementing the first experience template.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the second experience template is generated prior to implementing the first experience template.

10. A method comprising:

accessing, by one or more computer processors coupled to at least one memory, a first experience template configured for a first user device, wherein the first experience template comprises interaction sequence data representative of an interaction sequence resulting from a plurality of user interactions with the first user device, the first experience template generated by;

determining first data indicative of a set of operations;

determining second data indicative of an order of execution of the set of operations;

determining timing data representing time intervals between individual changes of the respective plurality of user interactions;

generating interaction sequence data using the first data, the second data, the timing data, at least a portion of user interface settings information, and at least a portion of state information for one or more modules, wherein the interaction sequence data is representative of the interaction sequence; and

determining a first formatting associated with inputs from a first type of input/output device for association with the first experience template;

determining first user device data for the first user device;

accessing second user device data for a second user device;

generating, based at least in part on a correspondence between the first user device data and the second user device data, a second experience template configured for the second user device based at least in part on the first experience template, wherein the second experience template comprises the interaction sequence data;

determining a second formatting for the second experience template;

causing an operation of the set of operations to be executed, at least in part, using a second type of input/output device when implemented on the second user device;

determining that implementation of the first experience template causes an operation of the set of operations to be executed, at least in part, using a first type of input/output device when executed on the first user device;

determining that implementation of the second experience template causes the operation to be executed, at least in part, using a second different type of input/output device when executed on the second user device, wherein implementation of the first experience template or the second experience template results in a same final user interface setting or a same final module state as the interaction sequence;

providing the second experience template to the second user device; and

causing the second experience template to be implemented on the second device by causing the set of operations to be executed in accordance with the order of execution and the respective time intervals.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the first experience template or the second experience template comprises a respective one or more of a location, user device settings, module state information, or user interface settings.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein generating the second experience template comprises:

determining, based at least in part on the first user device data and the second user device data, input/output devices of the first user device and input/output devices of the second user device;

determining, based at least in part on the first user device data and the second user device data, one or more modules of the first user device and one or more modules of the second user device;

establishing, based at least in part on the first user device data and the second user device data, a correspondence between the input/output devices of the first and second user devices, wherein establishing a correspondence between the input/output devices comprises determining that functionality supported by the first type of input/output device is also supported by the second type of input/output device; and

establishing, based at least in part on the first user device data and the second user device data, a correspondence between the one or more modules of the first and second user devices.

13. The method of claim 10, the one or more modules comprising an operating system module.

14. The method of claim 10, the one or more modules comprising a user interface module.

15. A method comprising:

capturing an interaction sequence resulting from a plurality of user interactions with a system;

retrieving user interface settings information;

retrieving state information for one or more modules executing on at least one processor;

determining first data indicative of a plurality of recorded changes over time to;

a) one or more user interface settings, and b) one or more states of the one or more modules;

determining second data indicative of an order of execution of the plurality of recorded changes;

determining timing data representing time intervals between the respective plurality of recorded changes;

generating interaction sequence data using the first data, the second data, the timing data, at least a portion of user interface settings information, and at least a portion of state information for the one or more modules, wherein the interaction sequence data is representative of the interaction sequence;

determining a first formatting associated with inputs from a first type of input/output device for association with a first experience template;

generating the first experience template associated with the interaction sequence, the first experience template comprising at least the portion of the user interface settings information, at least the portion of the state information, and the interaction sequence data, wherein the first experience template has the first formatting;

implementing the first experience template by causing the plurality of recorded changes to be executed in accordance with the order of execution and with the respective time intervals;

causing a visualization of the plurality of recorded changes being executed and at least one of;

a same final user interface setting or a same final module state as the interaction sequence; and

generating a second experience template based at least in part on the first experience template, wherein the second experience template has a second formatting and causes an operation of the set of operations to be executed, at least in part, using a second type of input/output device when the second experience template is implemented on a second user device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the timing data is determined at least in part using time stamps associated with the individual changes of the plurality of recorded changes indicated by a clock of the system.

17. The method of claim 15, the one or more modules comprising one or more of an electronic book reader module configured to present electronic books, a player module configured to present audio or video media content, a word processing module configured to edit text, or an internet browser module configured to present information retrieved from a server.

18. The method of claim 15, the one or more modules comprising an operating system module.

19. The method of claim 15, the one or more modules comprising a user interface module.