ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY

• US 20130232409A1
• Filed: 03/25/2013
• Published: 09/05/2013
• 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:
  US13/849,614
• Publication Number:
  US 20130232409A1
• 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:

enabling a user to download an electronic publication in a promotional configuration;

enabling the user to navigate through the electronic publication with a relative indicator identifying a portion of the electronic publication being accessed by the user;

enabling the user to purchase a full version of the electronic publication;

downloading, as a result of a purchase, the full version of the electronic publication; and

preserving the relative indicator so that subsequent user access to the electronic publication enables the user to access the portion of the electronic publication associated with the relative indicator.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

presenting a bookmark control within the electronic publication in the promotional configuration;

receiving, using the electronic bookmark control within the electronic publication, a user instruction to set an electronic bookmark;

setting, in response to receiving the user instruction, the electronic bookmark to return to a place associated with a relative indicator at a time of receiving the user instruction; and

preserving, during the purchase of the full version of the electronic publication, the electronic bookmark.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein presenting the electronic bookmark control includes presenting the electronic bookmark control in association with a reading history indicating which portion of the electronic publication has been accessed.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein presenting the electronic bookmark control includes presenting the electronic bookmark control in association with a progress bar that indicates which portions of the electronic publication have been read relative to those portions of the electronic publication that have not been read.

5. 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 download an electronic publication in a promotional configuration;

enabling the user to navigate through the electronic publication with a relative indicator identifying a portion of the electronic publication being accessed by the user;

enabling the user to purchase a full version of the electronic publication;

downloading, as a result of a purchase, the full version of the electronic publication;

preserving the relative indicator so that subsequent user access to the electronic publication enables the user to access the portion of the electronic publication associated with the relative indicator.

6. 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 download an electronic publication in a promotional configuration;

enabling the user to navigate through the electronic publication with a relative indicator identifying a portion of the electronic publication being accessed by the user;

enabling the user to purchase a full version of the electronic publication;

downloading, as a result of a purchase, the full version of the electronic publication; and

preserving the relative indicator so that subsequent user access to the electronic publication enables the user to access the portion of the electronic publication associated with the relative indicator.