Immersive interactive publication

• US 20120054813A1
• Filed: 07/18/2011
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Patential Holdings, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ubiquity Holdings
• Inventors: Carmichael, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US13/184,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20120054813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/110
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0291 for reading, e.g. e-books constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

A movie book which binds together movies and books along with social networks associated with words of the book. The book is viewed on a display screen of a computer, with said viewing comprising both content interspersed with both pictures and video, and where at least plural words of the book, and at least plural of the pictures and video are linked to additional content, and where said additional content includes interactive media. One of those media links is a link to a social network site related to a content of the interactive book, and which is shown on a same display screen at the same time is showing said interactive book. The user can also change the different parts of the book in combination with the social media.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an electronic media player, comprising;

a display screen, showing an interactive book, of the type which includes both content interspersed with both pictures and video, and where at least plural words of the book, and at least plural of the pictures and video are linked to additional content, and where said additional content includes interactive media,

wherein at least one of said interactive media includes a link to a social network site related to a content of the interactive book, and which is shown on a same display screen at the same time is showing said interactive book.

2. The system as in claim 1, wherein said electronic media player includes a link to the Internet.

3. The system as in claim 2, wherein said link to the social network site is personalized according to a user'"'"'s own personalization.

4. The system as in claim 3, wherein said link to the Internet is used to share the user'"'"'s own personalization with other users, so that said other users see the personalization.

5. The system as in claim 2, wherein said link to the social network comprises a most popular link among other users, which is updated over said link to the Internet to include different links at different times which changes depending on popularity of the links.

6. The system as in claim 2, further comprising an interactive link which comprises a link to a video associated with words of the book, where it at least portions of the video are automatically displayed on the screen when the words of the book are rolled over by a user.

7. The system as in claim 3, further comprising allowing a video created by the user to be associated with words of the book, and allowing sharing said video created by the user with other users who are reading the same book, where said video created by the user is associated with said words of the book for said other users.

8. The system as in claim 2, where users of the book can change aspects of the book, both for themselves and for others.

9. A system as in claim 8, wherein the social network that is represented by said link keeps track of aspects of the book which have been changed, and allows users to indicate whether they like the change.

10. A system as in claim 9, wherein when more than a specified number of users like the change, the change is automatically sent to more users you on those who have indicated that they like the change.

11. A method, comprising:

viewing an electronic interactive book on a display screen of a computer,

said viewing comprising both content interspersed with both pictures and video, and where at least plural words of the book, and at least plural of the pictures and video are linked to additional content, and where said additional content includes interactive media,

wherein at least one of said interactive media includes a link to a social network site related to a content of the interactive book, and which is shown on a same display screen at the same time is showing said interactive book.

12. The method as in claim 11, further comprising linking from said electronic book to the internet.

13. The method as in claim 12, wherein said link to the social network site is personalized according to a user'"'"'s own personalization.

14. The method as in claim 12, wherein said link to the Internet is used to share a user'"'"'s personalization with other users, so that said other users see the personalization.

15. The method as in claim 11, wherein said link to the social network comprises a most popular link among multiple other users, which is updated over said link to the Internet to include different links at different times which changes depending on popularity of the links.

16. The method as in claim 12, further comprising an interactive link to a video associated with words of the book, where it at least portions of the video are automatically displayed on the screen when the words of the book are rolled over by a user.

17. The method as in claim 13, further comprising allowing a video created by the user to be associated with words of the book, and allowing sharing said video created by the user with other users who are reading the same book, where said video created by the user is associated with said words of the book for said other users.

18. The method as in claim 12, where users of the book can change aspects of the book, both for themselves and for others.

19. A method as in claim 18, wherein the social network that is represented by said link keeps track of aspects of the book which have been changed, and allows users to indicate whether they like the change.

20. A method as in claim 19, wherein when more than a specified number of users like the change, the change is automatically sent to more users you on those who have indicated that they like the change.