ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY

• US 20130219269A1
• 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:
  US13/849,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20130219269A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/256
• 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:

accessing a library of electronic publications;

generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf in a bookshelf view that indicates electronic publications that are owned by a user;

enabling the user to switch between a bookstore view and the bookshelf view;

receiving an instruction from the user to switch from the bookshelf view to the bookstore view; and

generating, in response to receiving the instruction from the user to switch from the bookshelf view to the bookstore view, a display of an animated transition of a revolving bookshelf that originally presents the bookshelf view and concludes the animated transition by displaying the bookstore view.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

enabling a user to select a representation of an advertised electronic publication appearing within the bookstore view;

modifying the representation of the advertised electronic publication appearing within the bookstore view forward along a z-axis arising from an electronic reader and from the bookstore view to a user so as to present the advertised electronic publication as floating in front of the bookstore view;

generating, while preserving the advertised electronic publication as floating in front of the revolving bookshelf, an animated transition of the revolving bookshelf that originates with the bookstore view and concludes the animated transition by displaying the bookshelf view; and

modifying the representation of the advertised electronic publication appearing within the bookstore view to forward from the bookstore view to the user so as to present the advertised electronic publication as transitioning from a floating view into the bookshelf view of the electronic bookshelf.

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

accessing a library of electronic publications;

generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf in a bookshelf view that indicates electronic publications that are owned by a user;

enabling the user to switch between a bookstore view and the bookshelf view;

receiving an instruction from the user to switch from the bookshelf view to the bookstore view; and

generating, in response to receiving the instruction from the user to switch from the bookshelf view to the bookstore view, a display of an animated transition of a revolving bookshelf that originally presents the bookshelf view and concludes the animated transition by displaying the bookstore view.

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

accessing a library of electronic publications;

generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf in a bookshelf view that indicates electronic publications that are owned by a user;

enabling the user to switch between a bookstore view and the bookshelf view;

receiving an instruction from the user to switch from the bookshelf view to the bookstore view; and

generating, in response to receiving the instruction from the user to switch from the bookshelf view to the bookstore view, a display of an animated transition of a revolving bookshelf that originally presents the bookshelf view and concludes the animated transition by displaying the bookstore view.