ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY

• US 20130218729A1
• Filed: 03/25/2013
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Cranfill, Elizabeth Caroline Furches, Heller, David, Robbin, Jeffrey, Cannistraro, Alan C., Bachman, William Martin, Martin, Timothy B., Evans, Matt, Howard, Joe R.
• Application Number:
  US13/849,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20130218729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content

Abstract

Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf, determining a state for the first publication and modifying the representation of the first publication to reflect the state of the first publication.

Claims

1. A method of presenting information to a user, the method comprising:

enabling a user to purchase an electronic publication using an electronic bookstore;

enabling the user to download the electronic publication to a first device;

recording a user purchase of the electronic publication;

receiving an indication that the user has a second device; and

enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication to the second device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein enabling the user to purchase the electronic publication using the electronic bookstore includes enabling the user to purchase the electronic publication within an electronic bookstore application within the first device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein recording the user purchase of the electronic publication includes recording the user purchase for a user account on a history server.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising displaying a history of purchases to the user.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein displaying the history of purchases includes presenting a menu for each entry in the history of purchases enabling the user to perform additional actions for an already-purchased publication.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein enabling the user to perform additional actions includes enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication to the second device.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the indication that the user has the second device includes receiving an instruction from a registration server that the user has registered a second device for a user account.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication to the second device includes generating a representation of the second device within the electronic bookstore;

and

configuring the representation of the second device to trigger transmission of the electronic publication to the second device in response to receiving user selection of the representation of the second device.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication to the second device includes enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication without a requiring the user to purchase the electronic publication for the second device.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication to the second device includes enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication in response to receiving a user instruction to purchase a distribution fee to distribute an already purchased publication to the second device.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting the electronic publication to the second device includes formatting the electronic publication from a first format for the first device to a second format for the second device.

12. A system, comprising a processor and instructions that when performed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

enabling a user to purchase an electronic publication using an electronic bookstore;

enabling the user to download the electronic publication to a first device;

recording a user purchase of the electronic publication;

receiving an indication that the user has a second device; and

enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication to the second device.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed on a processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

enabling a user to purchase an electronic publication using an electronic bookstore;

enabling the user to download the electronic publication to a first device;

recording a user purchase of the electronic publication;

receiving an indication that the user has a second device; and

enabling the user to transmit the electronic publication to the second device.