Further applications of Reading State control - A method for repositioning reading material on electronic devices

• US 20170116047A1
• Filed: 09/05/2016
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Khozem Z. Dohadwala
• Original Assignee: Khozem Z. Dohadwala
• Inventors: Dohadwala, Khozem Z.
• Application Number:
  US15/256,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20170116047A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/34 Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

Specification details how Reading State control will be integrated into a Reader App, lists additional methods to identify articles, demonstrates metrics that can be collected by the Reading State control, shows methods to associate metadata to article identifiers and demonstrates how useful analytics can be performed using these metrics with and without metadata on article identifiers.

Claims

1. Development of Reading State control as a software module that provides a programming interface (API) to be used by Reader apps to integrate the Reading State control.

2. Collection of basic metrics associated with the reading behavior of the reader.

3. Association of metadata to an article identifier using an API feature of Reading State control.

4. Transmission of article identifiers, optional metadata and the basic metrics to a common data storage site on Internet.

5. Performing analytics on the article metadata and basic metrics.