SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USER E-BOOK COLLECTIONS

• US 20160085391A1
• Filed: 11/30/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Kobo Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Kobo Inc (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Donoghue, Tony, Patel, Sneha, Joseph, Charles
• Application Number:
  US14/954,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085391A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range

Abstract

Examples described herein enable a user to organize and manage e-books on a computing device that utilizes a network-based e-book service. According to some examples, a user e-book collection can be organized so that it can be displayed when archived, as well as in accordance with user-defined lists.

Claims

1. A method for organizing e-books on a computing device, the method comprising:

identifying a collection of e-books that are associated with the computing device, including multiple e-books that are stored in a local memory of the computing device;

identifying a graphic representation of each e-book in the collection;

identifying a user-defined list of e-books from the collection;

displaying a library representation of the collection, the library representation including the graphic representation of each e-book in the collection;

enabling the user to specify an input that corresponds to the user-defined list;

in response to detecting the input, filtering the library representation to include only the e-books that are part of the corresponding user-defined list;

archiving a selected e-book from the multiple e-books of the collection by removing the selected e-book from the local memory, wherein an entirety of the selected e-book had been previously downloaded to the local memory; and

for each archived e-book, altering the graphic representation of the e-book in the library representation to indicate that the e-book is archived with respect to the computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling the user to create the user-defined list, and to include one or more archived e-books in the user defined list.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying the user-defined list to include a first set of graphic representations and a second set of graphic representations, each graphic representation of the first set corresponding to an e-book that is locally stored on the computing device, and each graphic representation of the second set corresponding to an e-book that is archived on the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising signaling the user-defined list to a service which associates the user-defined list with an account of the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein altering the graphic representation of the e-book includes altering a shading, a coloring or a portion of a content of that graphic representation.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein altering the graphic representation of the e-book includes altering a position of the graphic representation within the library representation.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the graphic representation of each e-book in the collection includes:

determining, for each e-book, imagery used to package a media on which that e-book is provided from a corresponding publishing source; and

for each of the multiple e-books, generating a graphic representation that replicates the imagery of that e-book.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein determining the imagery includes determining a jacket cover used to package a book corresponding to each of the multiple e-books.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining the jacket cover includes accessing, for a literary work corresponding to each e-book, a publisher resource in order to determine the jacket cover for a book that carries the literary work.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to detecting the input, archiving the selected e-book from multiple devices of the user by removing the selected e-book from a local memory of each of the multiple devices.

11. A method for organizing e-books of a user, the method comprising:

identifying a collection of e-books that are associated with an account of a user;

identifying a graphic representation of each e-book in the collection;

identifying a user-defined list of e-books from the collection;

making the collection available for display on any of multiple computing devices of a user as a library representation, the library representation including the graphic representation of each e-book in the collection;

enabling the user to specify, on any of the multiple computing devices, an input that corresponds to the user-defined list;

communicating the user-defined list to each of the multiple computing devices of the user; and

enabling the user to separately archive each item that is locally stored on any of the multiple computing devices, so that each device can include a different set of locally stored e-books, wherein an entirety of each said item had been previously downloaded to a local memory of a respective one of the multiple computing devices.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

enabling the collection of e-books to be displayed as a library representation, the library representation including the graphic representation of each e-book in the collection; and

enabling each user-defined list to be displayed as a filtered version of the library representation that includes the graphic representation of each e-book in the user-defined list.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising altering the graphic representation of each e-book in the user-defined list that is archived to communicate that the e-book is not locally stored, but available through a cloud service.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein enabling an appearance of the user-defined list to differ on each of the multiple computing devices based on the e-books of the user-defined list that are archived on individual computing devices of the user.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions for managing e-books on a computing device, the computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

identifying a collection of e-books that are associated with the computing device, including multiple e-books that are stored in a local memory of the computing device;

identifying a graphic representation of each e-book in the collection;

identifying a user-defined list of e-books from the collection;

displaying a library representation of the collection, the library representation including the graphic representation of each e-book in the collection;

enabling the user to specify an input that corresponds to the user-defined list;

in response to detecting the input, filtering the library representation to include only the e-books that are part of the corresponding user-defined list;

archiving a selected e-book from the multiple e-books of the collection by removing the selected e-book from the local memory, wherein an entirety of the selected e-book had been previously downloaded to the local memory; and

for each archived e-book, altering the graphic representation of the e-book in the library representation to indicate that the e-book is archived with respect to the computing device.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising instructions for enabling the user to create the user-defined list, and to include one or more archived e-books in the user defined list.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions for displaying the user-defined list to include a first set of graphic representations and a second set of graphic representations, each graphic representation of the first set corresponding to an e-book that is locally stored on that computing device, and each graphic representation of the second set corresponding to an e-book that is archived on the computing device.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising instructions for signaling the user-defined list to a service which associates the user-defined list with an account of the user.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions for altering the graphic representation of the e-book includes instructions for altering a shading, a coloring or a portion of a content of that graphic representation.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the instructions for altering the graphic representation of the e-book includes instructions for altering a position of the graphic representation within the library representation.