ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAY WHITESPACE UTILIZATION

• US 20100315326A1
• Filed: 06/10/2009
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Duga, Brady, Leshner, William, Conboy, Garth, Le Chevalier, Vincent, Richards, Ruze
• Application Number:
  US12/482,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20100315326A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A system for and method for electronic paper display device content formatting is presented. The system and method may include receiving an electronic request to format electronic paper display device content at an a network accessible device, determining remaining available display space on a page view of a electronic paper display associated with an electronic paper display device, identifying additional electronic content for inclusion in the page view based at least in part on a comparison of one or more attributes of the additional electronic content with the determined remaining available display space, and adding the identified additional electronic content to the page view.

Claims

1. A hardware implemented method for electronic paper display device content formatting, the method comprising:

receiving an electronic request to format electronic paper display device content at an a network accessible device;

determining remaining available display space on a page view of a electronic paper display associated with an electronic paper display device;

identifying additional electronic content for inclusion in the page view based at least in part on a comparison of one or more attributes of the additional electronic content with the determined remaining available display space; and

adding the identified additional electronic content to the page view.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the network accessible device comprises at least one of:

a server, an electronic paper display device, and a combination of the preceding.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determination is made based at least in part on a display state of the electronic paper display device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the display state comprises a zoom level.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified additional electronic content comprises electronic content associated with a page layout of the electronic content.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the identified additional electronic content is associated with a page layout using a markup language.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein markup language comprises XML and the additional electronic content is associated using one or more optional display elements.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the one or more optional display elements are associated using cascading style sheets overflow property value settings.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein adding the identified additional electronic content to the page view comprises rendering the electronic content for display.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional electronic content for inclusion in the page view comprises one or more advertisements.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional electronic content for inclusion in the page view comprises at least one of:

electronic messages, trivia, sports scores, news headlines, electronic content metadata, and a combination of the preceding.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein determining remaining available display space on a electronic paper display device page view comprises measuring whitespace remaining after calculating layout of primary electronic content.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein primary electronic content comprises content selected for display on the electronic paper display device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the remaining available display space on a electronic paper display device page view comprises space remaining on a page view after a page break of primary electronic content.

15. At least one processor readable storage medium for storing a computer program of instructions configured to be readable by at least one processor for instructing the at least one processor to execute a computer process for performing the method as recited in claim 1.

16. An electronic paper display device comprising:

electronic paper display for displaying electronic content;

a communications module for receiving electronic content; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the electronic paper display and the communications module, wherein the processor is configured to;

receive an electronic request to format electronic paper display device content;

determine remaining available display space on a page view of the electronic paper display associated with the electronic paper display device;

identify additional electronic content for inclusion in the page view based at least in part on a comparison of one or more attributes of the additional electronic content with the determined remaining available display space; and

add the identified additional electronic content to the page view.

17. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein the determination is made based at least in part on a display state of the electronic paper display device.

18. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein the display state comprises a zoom level.

19. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein the identified additional electronic content comprises electronic content associated with a page layout of the electronic content.

20. The electronic paper display device of claim 19, wherein the identified additional electronic content is associated with a page layout using a markup language.

21. The electronic paper display device of claim 20, wherein markup language comprises XML and the additional electronic content is associated using one or more optional display elements.

22. The electronic paper display device of claim 21, wherein the one or more optional display elements are associated using cascading style sheets overflow property value settings.

23. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein adding the identified additional electronic content to the page view comprises rendering the electronic content for display.

24. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein the additional electronic content for inclusion in the page view comprises one or more advertisements.

25. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein the additional electronic content for inclusion in the page view comprises at least one of:

electronic messages, trivia, sports scores, news headlines, electronic content metadata, and a combination of the preceding.

26. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein determining remaining available display space on a electronic paper display device page view comprises measuring whitespace remaining after calculating layout of primary electronic content.

27. The electronic paper display device of claim 26, wherein primary electronic content comprises content selected for display on the electronic paper display device.

28. The electronic paper display device of claim 16, wherein the remaining available display space on a electronic paper display device page view comprises space remaining on a page view after a page break of primary electronic content.