E-reader semantic text manipulation

• US 8,365,059 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2009
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Grandios Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Walsh, Richard J., Issa, Alfredo C., Helpingstine, Michael W.
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, CONG LAC T
• Application Number:
  US12/611,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20110107206A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/255, 715/256, 715/273, 715/864
• US Class Current: 715/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

A computerized system and method for changing the textual length of an electronic text content while maintaining the meaning of the electronic text content is disclosed. The system includes an electronic reader, or e-reader, device having an electronic touch screen for displaying an electronic text content and for receiving a user touch gesture for identifying a portion of the electronic text content targeted for a textual length change, and a semantic server programmed to receive requests for a semantic text alternative for a targeted electronic text content identified by way of the e-reader device and to determine a semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted electronic text content, wherein the determined semantic alternative electronic text has a different textual length than the targeted electronic text content, and for replacing the targeted electronic text content displayed by the e-reader device with the determined semantic alternative electronic text content.

Claims

1. A computerized method for changing a textual length of a displayable electronic text content while maintaining a meaning of the displayable electronic text content, the method comprising:

receiving, via an electronic touch screen that displays a displayable electronic text content, a multi-touch user input that identifies the displayable electronic text content targeted for a textual length change, and a textual length change indication that indicates a reduction or expansion of a textual length of the displayable electronic text content;

determining a displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted displayable electronic text content based on the textual length change indication, wherein the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content is different from the targeted displayable electronic text content and has a different textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content; and

effecting replacement of the targeted displayable electronic text content with the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the textual length change indication indicates a reduction of the textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content.

3. The computerized method of claim 2, wherein determining the displayable semantic alternative electronic text content results in a determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content having a shorter textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content.

4. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the textual change indication indicates an expansion of the textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content.

5. The computerized method of claim 4, wherein determining the displayable semantic alternative electronic text content results in a determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content having a longer length than the targeted displayable electronic text content.

6. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein a user'"'"'s fingers touch the electronic touch screen such that two digits of the user are moved towards each other in a pinching motion to request the reduction of the textual length of the displayable electronic text content targeted for the textual length change.

7. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein a user'"'"'s fingers touch the electronic touch screen such that two digits of the user are moved away from each other in a motion to request the expansion of the textual length of the displayable electronic text content targeted for the textual length change.

8. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein a user'"'"'s fingers touch the electronic touch screen such that two digits of the user are moved towards or away from each other to request the reduction or the expansion, respectively, of the change in the textual length of the displayable electronic text content targeted for the textual length change.

9. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a user targeting the displayable electronic text content for the textual length change;

retrieving a user profile associated with the identified user; and

generating semantic maps relevant to the user profile, wherein the semantic maps are usable for determining the displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted displayable electronic text content, wherein the determined displayable semantic an electronic touch screen for displaying the displayable electronic text content and for receiving a multi-touch user input that identifies a portion of the displayable electronic text content targeted for a textual length change, the multi-touch user input further comprising a textual length change indication that indicates a reduction or expansion of a textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content; and

a processor programmed to determine a displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted displayable electronic text content based on the textual length change indication and for effecting replacement of the targeted displayable electronic text content with the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content, wherein the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content is different from the targeted displayable electronic text content and has a different textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content.

10. The computerized method of claim 9, wherein the user profile includes user preferred displayable semantic alternative electronic text content.

11. The computerized method of claim 9, wherein at least one of the semantic maps that is statistically likely to be useable by the user is pre-fetched for immediate use from an electronic memory containing the semantic maps.

12. A computerized method for reducing a textual length of a displayable electronic text content while maintaining a meaning of the displayable electronic text content, the method comprising:

receiving, via an electronic touch screen that displays a displayable electronic text content, a multi-touch user input that identifies the displayable electronic text content targeted for a textual length change, wherein the multi-touch user input indicates two digits of a user moving towards each other in a pinching motion;

interpreting the multi-touch user input as a request to reduce a textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content;

in response to the request, determining a displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted displayable electronic text content, wherein the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content is different from the targeted displayable electronic text content and has a shorter textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content; and

effecting replacement of the targeted displayable electronic text content with the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content.

13. An electronic reader (e-reader) device for changing a textual length of a displayable electronic text content while maintaining a meaning of the displayable electronic text content, the e-reader device comprising:

a memory for storing a displayable electronic text content;

length change indication that indicates a reduction or expansion of a textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content; and

a semantic server application stored in the memory of the e-reader device and being executable by the processor of the e-reader device to receive requests for a displayable semantic text alternative for a targeted displayable electronic text content identified by way of the e-reader device and to determine a displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted displayable electronic text content based on the textual length change indication and for effecting replacement of the targeted displayable electronic text content displayed by the e-reader device with the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content, wherein the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content is different from the targeted displayable electronic text content and has a different textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content.

14. The e-reader device of claim 13, wherein the multi-touch user input indicates one of a user'"'"'s fingers touching the electronic touch screen such that two digits of the user are moved towards each other in a pinching motion to request the reduction in the textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content, and two digits of the user moving away from each other to request the expansion in the textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content.

15. A system for changing a textual length of a displayable electronic text content while maintaining a meaning of the displayable electronic text content, the system comprising:

an electronic reader (e-reader) device having a memory for storing data and applications, a processor for executing the applications, and an electronic touch screen for displaying a displayable electronic text content and for receiving a user touch gesture comprising a multi-touch user input that identifies a portion of the displayable electronic text content targeted for a textual length change, the multi-touch user input further comprising a textual alternative electronic text content has the different textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content.

16. The system of claim 15, further including a content provider for providing the displayable electronic text content to the e-reader device and the semantic server application.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the semantic server application includes user profiles having information that is useable to generate semantic maps for determining displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for particular types of targeted displayable electronic text content associated with the user profiles.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the semantic server application provides predetermined user profiles for new users.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the semantic server application further includes user profiles derived from user profiles aggregated from users that belong to a particular group.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the semantic server application further includes user profiles provided by a particular interest group.

21. A computerized method for expanding a textual length of a displayable electronic text content while maintaining a meaning of the displayable electronic text content, the method comprising:

receiving, via an electronic touch screen that displays a displayable electronic text content, a multi-touch user input that identifies the displayable electronic text content targeted for a textual length change, wherein the multi-touch user input indicates two digits of a user moving away from each other;

interpreting the multi-touch user input as a request to expand a textual length of the targeted displayable electronic text content;

in response to the request, determining a displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted displayable electronic text content, wherein the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content is different from the targeted displayable electronic text content and has a longer textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content; and

replacing the targeted displayable electronic text content with the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content.

22. An electronic reader (e-reader) device for changing a textual length of a displayable electronic text content while maintaining a meaning of the displayable electronic text content, the e-reader device comprising:

a memory for storing data and applications;

a processor for executing the applications;

an electronic touch screen for displaying a displayable electronic text content and for receiving a user touch gesture comprising a multi-touch user input that identifies a portion of the displayable electronic text content targeted for a textual length change, the multi-touch user input further comprising a textual length change indication that indicates a reduction or expansion of a textual length of the displayable electronic text content; and

a communication interface for communicating with a remote semantic server that receives requests for a displayable semantic text alternative for a targeted displayable electronic text content identified by way of the e-reader device, wherein the semantic server determines a displayable semantic alternative electronic text content for the targeted displayable electronic text content based on the textual length change indication and effects replacement of the targeted displayable electronic text content displayed by the e-reader device with the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content, wherein the determined displayable semantic alternative electronic text content is different from the targeted displayable electronic text content and has a different textual length than the targeted displayable electronic text content.