Content Aggregation

• US 20130166471A1
• Filed: 09/27/2010
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Fukuda Kelley, Yohko Aurora, Bell, Bruce Chester
• Granted Patent: US 10,339,173 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/344
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, can aggregate content from one or more electronic publication documents. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining information including an index to content items of an electronic publication including a discrete package of received data that is stored locally, the content items being less than all content in the electronic publication received; retrieving, by a computer based on one or more criteria, two or more of the content items provided in disparate portions of the electronic publication, including the discrete package of received data, using the index; and presenting the two or more of the content items together on an output device in a user interface format different from that of the electronic publication.

Claims

1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

obtaining information comprising an index to content items of an electronic publication comprising a discrete package of received data that is stored locally, the content items being less than all content in the electronic publication received;

retrieving, by a computer based on one or more criteria, two or more of the content items provided in disparate portions of the electronic publication, including the discrete package of received data, using the index; and

presenting the two or more of the content items together on an output device in a user interface format different from that of the electronic publication.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the discrete package of received data is a first publication document, and the obtaining comprises:

retrieving first information corresponding to the first publication document;

adding the first information to the index;

retrieving second information corresponding to a second publication document published after the first publication document; and

adding the second information to the index such that the index spans the first and second publication documents.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second publication document has not been -previously purchased, and the method comprises:

presenting the second information to a user with an option to purchase at least a portion of the second publication document.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the electronic publication is a first electronic publication, and the second publication document is from a second electronic publication different than the first electronic publication.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein retrieving the two or more of the content items comprises retrieving content items that each have a free data portion and a priced data portion, and presenting the two or more of the content items comprises:

displaying the free data portions of the content items in a user interface for the index;

receiving a selection of one of the content items displayed in the user interface for the index; and

revealing the priced data portion of the selected one of the content items in the user interface for the index,

6. The method of claim 5, wherein presenting the two or more of the content items comprises:

determining that a user has not previously purchased a publication issue corresponding to the selected one of the content items; and

transacting a purchase by the user of the previously unpurchased publication issue, or the selected one of the content items, before the revealing.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving input from a user specifying the one or more criteria.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving input from a user with respect to content referenced by the index; and

storing the user input to personalize the index with respect to the user.

9. The method of claim 8, where receiving input from a user comprises receiving annotations to content referenced by the index.

10. The method of claim 8, where receiving input from a user comprises receiving category information to separate the content referenced by the index, and presenting the two or more of the content items comprises presenting a portion of the content referenced by the index based on the category information.

11. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving a request to communicate a portion of the information comprising the index to a third party;

checking for authorization for the third party to receive the portion of the information comprising the index; and

communicating the portion of the information comprising the index to the third party.

12. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

obtaining information comprising an index to content items of an electronic publication comprising a discrete package of received data that is stored locally for later local access, the content items being less than all content in the electronic publication received;

retrieving, by a computer based on one or more criteria, two or more of the content items provided in disparate portions of the electronic publication, including the discrete package of received data, using the index; and

presenting the two or more of the content items together on an output device in a user interface format different from that of the electronic publication.

13. The computer storage medium of claim 12, wherein the discrete package of received data is a first publication document, and the obtaining comprises:

retrieving first information corresponding to the first publication document;

adding the first information to the index;

retrieving second information corresponding to a second publication document published after the first publication document; and

adding the second information to the index such that the index spans the first and second publication documents.

14. The computer storage medium of claim 13, wherein the second publication document has not been previously purchased, and the method comprises:

presenting the second information to a user with an option to purchase at least a portion of the second publication document.

15. The computer storage medium of claim 13, wherein retrieving the two or more of the content items comprises retrieving content items that each have a free data portion and a priced data portion, and presenting the two or more of the content items comprises:

displaying the free data portions of the content items in a user interface for the index;

receiving a selection of one of the content items displayed in the user interface for the index; and

revealing the priced data portion of the selected one of the content items in the user interface for the index.

16. A system comprising:

a device; and

one or more computers operable to interact with the device and programmed to perform operations comprising

obtaining information comprising an index to content items of an electronic publication comprising a discrete package of received data that is stored locally for later local access, the content items being less than all content in the electronic publication received,

retrieving, by a computer based on one or more criteria, two or more of the content items provided in disparate portions of the electronic publication, including the discrete package of received data, using the index, and

presenting the two or more of the content items together on the device in a user interface format different from that of the electronic publication.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the discrete package of received data is a first publication document, and the obtaining comprises:

retrieving first information corresponding to the first publication document;

adding the first information to the index;

retrieving second information corresponding to a second publication document published after the first publication document; and

adding the second information to the index such that the index spans the first and second publication documents.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein retrieving the two or more of the content items comprises retrieving content items that each have a free data portion and a priced data portion, and presenting the two or more of the content items comprises:

displaying the free data portions of the content items in a user interface for the index;

receiving a selection of one of the content items displayed in the user interface for the index; and

revealing the priced data portion of the selected one of the content items in the user interface for the index.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more computers comprise a server operable to interact with the device through a data communication network, and the device is operable to interact with the server as a client.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more computers consist of one computer, the device is a user interface device, and the one computer comprises the user interface device.