SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL YEARBOOK DELIVERY

• US 20100070579A1
• Filed: 09/15/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WolfPack Products LLC
• Original Assignee: WolfPack Products LLC
• Inventors: Olson, Anthony M, Winquist, Jennifer Kay, Richard, Joseph G
• Granted Patent: US 8,214,436 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

An application for a system for providing a digital yearbook includes a server, a terminal and a database. The database is interfaced to the server and yearbook data is captured at the terminal, transferred to the server and stored in the database. The yearbook data is filtered and formatted based upon user profiles, creating customized views (subsets) of the yearbook for each of the users, including formatting and organizing the customized views for a desired viewing device of each user.

Claims

1. A system for providing a digital yearbook comprising:

a server;

a personal computer connected to the server through a network;

a plurality of user devices selected from at least two types of user devices, each of the user devices associated with a user of the digital yearbook;

a database operationally coupled to the server;

a first software module running on the server receives yearbook data from the personal computer through the network and stores the yearbook data in the database;

for each user of the digital yearbook, a second software module running on the server extracts a subset of the yearbook data, the second software module filters the subset of yearbook data according to a user profile and the second software module formats the subset of yearbook data according to a target device of the at least two user devices and the second software module saves the subset of yearbook data; and

a means for delivering the subset of the yearbook data to each of the plurality of user devices.

2. The system for providing a digital yearbook of claim 1, wherein each of at least two types of user devices is selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, an electronic book, a cellular phone, a content player, a television with an integrated optical disk player, a network-connected television and an optical disk player.

3. The system for providing a digital yearbook of claim 1, wherein the subset of yearbook data includes all of the yearbook data.

4. The system for providing a digital yearbook of claim 1, whereas the second software module saves the subset of yearbook data to a storage media and the means for delivering the subset of the yearbook data to the plurality of user devices includes transferring the storage media to the plurality of user devices.

5. The system for providing a digital yearbook of claim 4, wherein the storage media is selected from the group consisting of digital optical media, analog optical media, magnetic media and flash memory.

6. The system for providing a digital yearbook of claim 4, further comprising a third software module running on the plurality of user devices, the third software module reads the subset of yearbook data from the storage media and accesses external data, merges the external data with the subset of yearbook data from the storage media into a customized yearbook data and presents the customized yearbook data through a user interface.

7. The system for providing a digital yearbook of claim 6, wherein the external is selected from the group consisting of music, video, news and advertisements.

8. The system for providing a digital yearbook of claim 1, whereas the second software module delivers the subset of yearbook data to the plurality of user devices over the network.

9. A method for providing a digital yearbook comprising the steps of:

capturing content for a yearbook into a database;

editing and organizing the content within the database;

creating customized data from the content based on a user profile of a particular user of a set of users and based on a target device of the user;

delivering the customized data to the target device associated with the particular user; and

presenting the customized data at the target device;

wherein there are at least two different classes of target devices.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein each of at least two different classes of target devices is selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, an electronic book, a cellular phone, a content player, a television with an integrated optical disk player, a network-connected television and an optical disk player.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the target device is an optical disk player and whereas the step of creating customized data included formatting and organizing the customized data to work with a remote control based user interface.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the target device is a personal computer and whereas the step of creating customized data included formatting and organizing the customized data to work with a mouse-based user interface.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the target device is an electronic book and whereas the step of creating customized data included formatting and organizing the customized data to work with an electronic book user interface.

14. A method for providing a digital yearbook, the method performed by a computer having instructions stored on a computer media, the computer media interfaced to a computer, the computer executing the instructions to implement the method comprising the steps of:

capturing content for a yearbook into a database;

editing and organizing the content within the database;

creating customized data from the content based on a user profile of a particular user of a set of users, the user profile including an indication of a target device used by the user; and

delivering the customized data to the target device; and

presenting the customized data at the target device;

wherein there are at least two different classes of target devices.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein each of at least two different classes of target devices is selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, an electronic book, a cellular phone, a content player, a television with an integrated optical disk player, a network-connected television and an optical disk player.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the target device is an optical disk player and whereas the step of creating the customized data includes formatting and organizing the customized data to work with a remote control based user interface.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the target device is a personal computer and whereas the step of creating the customized data includes formatting and organizing the customized data to work with a mouse-based user interface.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the target device is an electronic book and whereas the step of creating the customized data included formatting and organizing the customized data to work with an electronic book user interface.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the customized data is formatted and organized by pages and the remote control based user interface provides page turn and direct page access functionality.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the customized data is formatted and organized in a data arrangement and the mouse-based user interface provides rich user interface features including page turns, searching, annotation and extraction.