Interactions for Sharing Content Items in a Digital Magazine

• US 20140075339A1
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Flipboard Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Flipboard Incorporated
• Inventors: Weskamp, Marcos A., Doll, Evan R., Hilhorst, Didier
• Granted Patent: US 9,165,314 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• 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 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A digital magazine server user may identify a content item presented by the digital magazine server to save or present to other digital magazine server users by interacting with a client device presenting the content item. For example, providing a gesture to the client device identifies a content item for presentation to other digital magazine server users. The gesture may begin by the user interacting with a portion of a display device that displays a portion of the content item and continue as the user interacts with the display device along a path from the portion to an additional portion. When the gesture is completed, the user may be presented with options to present the content item to additional digital magazine server users, or the content item may be presented to other digital magazine server users.

Claims

1. A method for interacting with content items included in a digital magazine, the method comprising:

receiving one or more content items from a digital magazine server and instructions for displaying the content items on a client device to a user of a digital magazine server;

displaying the one or more content items in display regions of a display device included on the client device;

receiving an input from the user interacting with a portion of the display device of the client device corresponding to a display region presenting a content item and continuously interacting with the display device along a path from the portion of the display device of the client device to an additional portion of the display device of the client device;

responsive to the received input, sending an instruction identifying the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted to the digital magazine server;

receiving one or more options from the digital magazine server for sharing the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted with one or more additional users of the digital magazine server;

receiving a selection of an option for sharing the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted; and

sending an instruction to the digital magazine server to share the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted to one or more additional users of the digital magazine server based on the selected option.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions sent from the digital magazine server identify the relative positioning of content items when displayed.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the display device comprises one or more eye-tracking cameras.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the display device comprises one or more proximity sensors, one or more heat sensors, one or more resistive sensors, and any combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the input from the user comprises an eye movement, an interaction with a stylus, a physical contact with the display device, a contactless hover with the display device, and any combination thereof.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the display device comprises a region of the display corresponding to a corner of the content item.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the additional portion of the display device comprises a visual indication of a specific region of the display device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the visual indication of the specific region of the display device comprises:

an image, an icon, a shape, and any combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein continuously interacting with the display device comprises maintaining physical contact with the display device using a physical stylus, maintaining proximity with the display device using a physical stylus, maintaining eye contact with the display device, and any combination thereof.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the path comprises moving from the portion of the display device to the additional portion of the display device by moving upward towards and to the right of the additional portion and, at an intermediate location between the portion and the additional portion, moving left of the portion.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions sent to the digital magazine server responsive to the received input include an identifier associated with the content item.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the options for sharing are selected from a group consisting of:

an option to provide a comment associated with the content item, an option to post the content item for presentation to additional users of the digital magazine server, an option to indicate a preference for the content item, an option to save the content item to the digital magazine server, an option to include the content item in a communication stream, an option to email the content item, and any combination thereof.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the option to post the content item for presentation to additional users of the digital magazine serve comprises:

an option to include the content item in a feed presented by a social networking system coupled to the digital magazine server.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the options for sharing comprise of posting the content item on a location accessible by one or more additional users and non-users of the social networking system.

15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer program code for interacting with content items included in a digital magazine, the method comprising:

receiving one or more content items from a digital magazine server and instructions for displaying the content items on a client device to a user of a digital magazine server;

displaying the one or more content items in display regions of a display device included on the client device;

receiving an input from the user interacting with a portion of a display device of the client device corresponding to a display region presenting a content item and continuously interacting with the display device along a path from the portion of the display device of the client device to an additional portion of the display device of the client device;

responsive to the received input, sending an instruction identifying the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted to the digital magazine server;

receiving one or more options from the digital magazine server for sharing the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted with one or more additional users of the digital magazine server;

receiving a selection of an option for sharing the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted; and

sending the instruction to the digital magazine server to share the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted to one or more additional users of the digital magazine server based on the selected option.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the options for sharing are selected from a group consisting of:

an option to provide a comment associated with the content item, an option to post the content item for presentation to additional users of the digital magazine server, an option to indicate a preference for the content item, an option to save the content item to the digital magazine server, an option to include the content item in a communication stream, an option to email the content item, and any combination thereof.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the option to post the content item for presentation to additional users of the digital magazine serve comprises:

an option to include the content item in a feed presented by a social networking system coupled to the digital magazine server.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the options for sharing comprise of posting the content item on a location accessible by one or more additional users and non-users of the social networking system.

19. A method for interacting with content items included in a digital magazine, the method comprising:

sending one or more content items from the digital magazine and instructions for presenting the content items to a client device for presentation to a user of a digital magazine server;

receiving an instruction identifying a content item from the client device, the content item identified responsive to the user interacting with a portion of a display region of the client device presenting the content item and continuously interacting with the display region of the client device along a path from the portion of the display region to an additional portion of the display region of the client device; and

sending one or more options for sharing the content item identified by the instruction with one or more additional users of the digital magazine server.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the options for sharing are selected from a group consisting of:

an option to provide a comment associated with the content item, an option to post the content item for presentation to additional users of the digital magazine server, an option to indicate a preference for the content item, an option to save the content item to the digital magazine server, an option to include the content item in a communication stream, an option to email the content item, and any combination thereof.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the option to post the content item for presentation to additional users of the digital magazine serve comprises:

an option to include the content item in a feed presented by a social networking system coupled to the digital magazine server.

22. The method of claim 22, wherein the options for sharing comprise of posting the content item on a location accessible by one or more additional users and non-users of the social networking system.

23. A method for interacting with content items included in a digital magazine, the method comprising:

receiving one or more content items from a digital magazine server and instructions for displaying the content items on a client device to a user of a digital magazine server;

displaying the one or more content items in display regions of a display device included on the client device;

receiving an input from the user interacting with a portion of the display device of the client device corresponding to a display region presenting a content item and continuously interacting with the display device along a path from the portion of the display device of the client device to an additional portion of the display device of the client device;

responsive to the received input, sending an instruction identifying the content item presented by the portion of the display device corresponding to the display region with which the user interacted to the digital magazine server to share the content item to one or more collections on the digital magazine server.

24. The method of 23, wherein a collection the content item is shared to is selected based on at least in part on one or more of:

attributes of the content item, information associated with the user by the digital magazine server, information associated with additional users of the digital magazine server that interacted with the content item, and any combination thereof.