AUTOMATIC CONTENT BOOK CREATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON A DATE RANGE

• US 20120054072A1
• Filed: 08/31/2010
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Picaboo Inc.
• Original Assignee: Picaboo Corporation (Reischling Press, Inc.)
• Inventors: McCurdy, Kevin, John, Dennis
• Application Number:
  US12/872,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20120054072A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

An automatic content book creation system and method are described in which the content is selected by date range.

Claims

1. A system for automatically generating a book of content, the system comprising:

a page generating unit that receives a set of content and generates one or more pages of a book containing a portion of the set of content, the page generating unit further comprising;

a component that receives a set of content wherein each piece of content has one or more pieces of metadata associated with the piece of content wherein the metadata includes a date of creation of the piece of content, a user component that allows a user to select a date range, a determining component that determines, based on the selected date range, if a sufficient number of pieces of content are within the date range based on the date of creation metadata and a lay out component that lays out one or more pages of a book based on the number of pieces of content are within the date range based on the date of creation metadata. a display, coupled to the page generating unit, that displays the one or more pages of the content with the content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user component requests a different date range if the selected date range does not contain a sufficient number of pieces of content.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising a book system for purchasing the book after the laid out pages of the book are viewed by the user.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a computing device used by a user wherein the computing device has one or more processing units and a memory associated with the one or more processing units and wherein the page generating unit further comprises a plurality of lines of computer code resident in the memory and executed by the one or more processing units.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein each computing device further comprises one of a personal computer, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a wireless device, a wireless email device, an integrated device, a mobile phone and a cellular phone.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the page generating unit further comprises a clustering component that clusters the pieces of content that are within the date range to generate one or more clusters that each contain at least piece of content and wherein the lay out component further comprises a lay out component that lays out the one or more pages of a book based on the number of pieces of content are within the date range based on the date of creation metadata and the one or more clusters.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the identifier and generating unit further comprises a store that stores the set of content of the user.

8. A method for automatically generating a book of content, comprising:

receiving a set of content, each piece of content having one or more pieces of metadata associated with the piece of content wherein the metadata includes a date of creation of the piece of content;

selecting a date range;

determining, based on the selected date range, if a sufficient number of pieces of content are within the date range based on the date of creation metadata; and

laying out one or more pages of a book based on the number of pieces of content are within the date range based on the date of creation metadata.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining if a sufficient number of pieces of content are within the date range further comprises requesting a different date range if the selected date range does not contain a sufficient number of pieces of content.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising presenting the laid out pages of the book to the user.

11. The method of claim 8 further comprising purchasing the book after the laid out pages of the book are viewed by the user.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the laying out the pages further comprises clustering the pieces of content that are within the date range to generate one or more clusters that each contain at least pieces of content and laying out one or more pages of a book based on the number of pieces of content are within the date range based on the date of creation metadata and the one or more clusters.