SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUGGESTING A PAUSE POSITION WITHIN ELECTRONIC TEXT

• US 20120206472A1
• Filed: 05/27/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Rhonda Enterprises, LLC (Concert Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Kandekar, Kunal, Curtis, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 9,326,116 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/581
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0214 Referral reward systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Systems and methods for suggesting a pause position within electronic text are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method may include receiving identification of a current user position within electronic text residing on an electronic device. For example, a current user position may be a page of an e-book that is currently being displayed to a reader or user. The method may include determining a suggested pause position within the electronic text based on the current user position. For example, the suggested pause position may be determined based on the reader'"'"'s profile, a reading behavior of other readers, metadata, or combinations thereof. The method may also include presenting the suggested pause position on a user interface of the electronic device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving identification of a current user position within electronic text residing on an electronic device;

determining a suggested pause position within the electronic text based on the current user position; and

presenting the suggested pause position on a user interface of the electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving identification of the current user position comprises determining that the electronic device is presenting on the user interface a portion of the electronic text that corresponds to the current user position.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic text comprises metadata including the suggested pause position, and

wherein determining the suggested pause position comprises extracting the suggested pause position from the metadata of the electronic text.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the suggested pause position from a server via a communications network.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the suggested pause position comprises determining the suggested pause position based on reading behavior of a plurality of other readers.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the reading behavior is reading behavior of other readers reading the electronic text.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the suggested pause position comprises determining the suggested pause position based on actual pause positions of other readers who have read the electronic text.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the suggested pause position comprises determining the suggested pause position based on a user profile.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the user profile comprises at least one of an available read time for a user, a calendar of the user, a reading behavior of the user, a current time, a reading speed of the user, and an activity of the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the suggested pause position comprises determining the suggested pause position based on a content of the electronic text.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein determining the suggested pause position comprises applying semantic analysis to the content of the electronic text.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein applying semantic analysis comprises:

determining a portion of the content of the electronic text relating to at least one of a plot point and subject change; and

assigning a position of the determined portion of the content as the suggested pause position.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein applying semantic analysis comprises:

determining a similarity score between text subgroups within the electronic text;

determining whether the similarity score is less than a predetermined threshold; and

in response to determining that the similarity score is less than the predetermined threshold, assigning a position between the text subgroups as the suggested pause position.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the suggested pause position comprises controlling a display of the electronic device to display a graphic corresponding to the suggested pause position.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the current user position is the suggested pause position,

wherein presenting the suggested pause position comprises controlling a speaker of the electronic device to emit a sound in response to determining that the current user position is the suggested pause position.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising altering a portion of content of the electronic text at the suggested pause position,

wherein presenting the suggested pause position comprises controlling a display of the electronic device to display the altered portion of content.

17. An electronic device comprising:

a pause position manager configured to;

receive identification of a current user position within electronic text; and

determine a suggested pause position within the electronic text based on the current user position; and

a user interface configured to present the suggested pause position.

18. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the pause position manager is configured to determine that the electronic device is presenting a portion of the electronic text that corresponds to the current user position.

19. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the electronic text comprises metadata including the suggested pause position, and

wherein the pause position manager is configured to extract the suggested pause position from the metadata of the electronic text.

20. The electronic device of claim 17, further comprising a network interface configured to receive the suggested pause position from a server via a communications network.

21. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the pause position manager is configured to determine the suggested pause position based on reading behavior of a plurality of other readers.

22. The electronic device of claim 21, wherein the reading behavior is reading behavior of other readers reading the electronic text.

23. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the pause position manager is configured to determine the suggested pause position based on actual pause positions of other readers who have read the electronic text.

24. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the pause position manager is configured to determine the suggested pause position based on a user profile.

25. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein the user profile comprises at least one of an available read time for the user, a calendar of a user, a reading behavior of the user, a current time, a reading speed of the user, and an activity of the user.

26. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the pause position manager is configured to determine the suggested pause position based on a content of the electronic text.

27. The electronic device of claim 26, wherein the pause position manager is configured to apply semantic analysis to the content of the electronic text.

28. The electronic device of claim 27, wherein the pause position manager is configured to:

determine a portion of the content of the electronic text relating to at least one of a plot point and subject change; and

assign a position of the determined portion of the content as the suggested pause position.

29. The electronic device of claim 27, wherein the pause position manager is configured to:

determine a similarity score between text subgroups within the electronic text;

determine whether the similarity score is less than a predetermined threshold; and

in response to determining that the similarity score is less than the predetermined threshold, assign a position between the text subgroups as the suggested pause position.

30. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the user interface includes a display configured to display a graphic corresponding to the suggested pause position for indicating the suggested pause position.

31. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the pause position manager is configured to:

determine that the current user position is the suggested pause position; and

control a speaker of the user interface to emit a sound in response to determining that the current user position is the suggested pause position.

32. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the pause position manager is configured to alter a portion of content of the electronic text at the suggested pause position,

wherein the pause position manager is configured to control a display of the user interface to display the altered portion of content.

33. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the following steps:

receiving identification of a current user position within electronic text residing on an electronic device;

determining a suggested pause position within the electronic text based on the current user position; and

presenting the suggested pause position on a user interface of the electronic device.