Method and System for Storytelling

• US 20110060990A1
• Filed: 09/09/2009
• Published: 03/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Roy D. Gross
• Original Assignee: Roy D. Gross
• Inventors: Gross, Roy D.
• Application Number:
  US12/556,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20110060990A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/025 adapted to a specific application
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/062 Combinations of audio and printed presentations, e.g. magnetically striped cards, talking books, magnetic tapes with printed texts thereon

Abstract

A method and system for a story telling connecting a static media and an electronic media in order to tell a story and to improve the storytelling process for the reader/user. The method and system allow for portions of the original story to be skipped, and allow for the electronic media having portions of the story, clues, games, puzzles, and/or codes, such that a reader/user needs to access the electronic media to understand the original story, thus connecting the static media with the electronic media.

Claims

1. A method for reading a story comprising the steps of:

reading a story comprising a static portion and at least one electronic portion, wherein the static portion is read via a static media and the at least one electronic portion is accessed via an electronic media, wherein reading the story comprises;

reading the static portion until an identifier associated with a location of the electronic portion of the story is reached;

using the identifier to access the electronic media associated therewith;

viewing and/or listening to the electronic portion of the story via the electronic media;

returning to the static portion of the story; and

continuing to read the static portion of the story.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of viewing and/or listening to the electronic portion of the story via the electronic media involves reading the electronic portion of the story.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the electronic portion of the story is only able to be accessed via the electronic media.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein to understand the story, a reader needs to access the electronic media.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of viewing and/or listening to the electronic portion of the story via the electronic media involves watching a movie and/or media clip about the electronic portion of the story.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

reading the static portion of the story until another identifier associated with a location of the electronic portion of the story is reached;

using the another identifier to access the at least one electronic media associated therewith;

viewing and/or listening to the electronic portion of the story via the electronic media;

returning to the static portion of the story;

continuing to read the static portion of the story; and

repeating the previous steps with additional identifiers.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of returning to the static portion of the story involves returning to the location of the identifier in the static media.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of returning to the static portion of the story involves returning to the location of an alternate identifier in the static media.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the location of the alternate identifier in the static media is further along in the story than the location of the identifier in the static media, allowing a reader to skip a portion of the story.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic media includes a parental control option to prevent a reader from viewing and/or listening to the electronic portion of the story via the electronic media.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the story presented via the static media is not in chronological order.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of paying a fee before viewing and/or listening to the electronic portion of the story via the electronic media.

13. A system for telling a story comprising:

a story having a static portion and an electronic portion;

a static media on which the static portion of the story is read; and

an electronic media on which the electronic portion of the story is accessed, wherein the static portion of the story includes at least one identifier identifying a location at which the electronic portion of the story is accessed.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the electronic portion of the story can be read and/or viewed via the electronic media.,

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the static media provides a series of clues, such that the electronic media needs to be accessed in order to solve the clues and to understand the story.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the electronic media has audio and video capabilities.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the electronic media has an interface, the interface having a series of electronic capabilities.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the electronic capabilities are selected from a group consisting of advertising materials, websites, movies, side-stories, learning systems, games, video games, clues, codes, or a combination thereof.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein access to the electronic media requires a fee.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the contents of the electronic media are dynamic and may be altered by a user.

21. A method for reading a story comprising the steps of:

reading a story via a static media until an identifier associated with a location of a game is reached;

using the identifier to access the game associated therewith;

playing the game;

returning to the story; and

continuing to read the story.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the game is selected from a group consisting of a series of clues, a puzzle, a video game, a code structure, a quiz, or a combination thereof.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein to understand the story, a reader needs to play the game.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the game is located on an electronic media.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the story has a static portion and a dynamic portion, the static portion being read via the static media and dynamic portion being understood via playing the game.