Tool for managing online content

• US 8,745,477 B1
• Filed: 01/06/2012
• Issued: 06/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Sullivan, Joseph K., Gordon, Cathy
• Primary Examiner(s): Paula, Cesar
• Assistant Examiner(s): Faber, David
• Application Number:
  US13/345,268
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/201, 715/273, 715/277, 715/741, 715/234, 715/255
• US Class Current: 715/200
• 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 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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
• 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: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A content management tool can assist publishers/authors in managing access rights and other parameters related to the display of documents online. The documents may include books and other documents that are traditionally published as printed works. The content management tool may display presentation parameters for the documents that relate to how the documents are to be shown to users when accessing the documents. The content management tool receives modifications to the presentation parameters and applies the modified versions of the presentation parameters to future accesses of the documents by users. The content management tool can, for example, be used to modify the portions of the document available for display, turn on/off certain portions of the document, manage links displayed concurrently with the document, and/or manage advertising related to the document.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting, by at least one of one or more devices, a first interface that includes information identifying each of a plurality of documents,

where the information identifying each of the plurality of documents includes;

a plurality of different fields that identify presentation parameters applied to each of the plurality of documents, and

where one or more of the presentation parameters, applied to a first document of the plurality of documents, are different than one or more of the presentation parameters applied to a second document of the plurality of documents;

presenting, by at least one of the one or more devices, a second interface,

where the second interface is provided based on selection, via the first interface, of an option associated with one or more documents of the plurality of documents, and

where the second interface includes information identifying the one or more documents,

the information identifying the one or more documents including the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents;

receiving, by at least one of the one or more devices and via the second interface, one or more modifications to at least one of the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents; and

applying, by at least one of the one or more devices, the one or more modifications to the at least one of the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request for the plurality of documents,

where the request includes;

one or more search terms associated with the plurality of documents, and

information identifying a context associated with the one or more search terms,

the information identifying the context including information associated with a type of the plurality of documents or information

identifying an author of the plurality of documents; and

providing the information identifying each of the plurality of documents based on the request.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request for the plurality of documents,

where the request includes information identifying a range of publication dates associated with the plurality of documents; and

providing the information identifying each of the plurality of documents based on the request.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from a user, a request for the plurality of documents,

identifying documents, from a corpus of documents, based on the request; and

providing information identifying a first subset of the identified documents,

where the user is authorized to access the first subset of the identified documents,

the user being unauthorized to access a second subset of the identified documents that is different than the first subset of the identified documents, and

where the first subset of the identified documents includes the plurality of documents.

5. The method of claim 1,

where the plurality of different fields include a field that enables a user to define a quantity of content, of a particular document of the plurality of documents, that is to be presented to one or more users when the one or more users access the particular document,

where the quantity of content is greater than zero and less than an entire content of the particular document, and

where receiving the one or more modifications to the at least one of the presentation parameters include receiving, from the user, a modification to a presentation parameter associated with the quantity of content.

6. The method of claim 5,

where the particular document includes a plurality of pages,

where the presentation parameter, associated with the quantity of content, identifies a portion of a particular page of the plurality of pages, and

where the portion of the particular page is greater than zero and less than an entire content of the particular page.

7. The method of claim 5,

where the particular document includes a plurality of pages,

where the plurality of different fields include a field that enables a user to identify one or more particular pages, of the plurality of pages, that are to be blocked when the one or more users access the particular document,

where the presentation parameter, associated with the quantity of content, identifies one or more particular pages of the plurality of pages, and

where the one or more particular pages are less than an entirety of the plurality of pages.

8. The method of claim 1, where the plurality of different fields include at least one of:

a field that enables a user to indicate whether an advertisement is to be presented with a particular document, of the plurality of documents, when the particular document is presented to one or more users, or

a field that enables the user to identify one or more advertisements to be blocked when the particular document is presented to the one or more users.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

present, to a user device, a first interface that includes information identifying each of a plurality of documents,

where the information identifying each of the plurality of documents includes;

a plurality of different fields that identify presentation parameters applied to each of the plurality of documents;

detect, via the first interface, selection, from the user device, of an option to select the information identifying each of one or more documents of the plurality of documents;

present, to the user device, a second interface based on the selection of the option to select the information identifying each the one or more of the documents,

where the second interface includes the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents;

receive, via the second interface and from the user device, a modification to at least one of the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents; and

apply the modification to the at least one of the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the information identifying each of the plurality of documents indicates that one or more of the presentation parameters, applied to a first document of the plurality of documents, are different than one or more of the presentation parameters applied to a second document of the plurality of documents.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9,

where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

receive, from the user device, at least one of;

information identifying a type of the plurality of documents, or

information identifying an author of the plurality of documents,

where the information identifying each of the plurality of documents is provided based on the least one of the information identifying the type of the plurality of documents or the information identifying the author of the plurality of documents.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

receive, from the user device, a request that includes information identifying at least one of;

an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) of a particular document,

an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of the particular document, or

a uniform resource locator (URL) of the particular document;

present, to the user device and based on the request, information identifying the particular document,

the information identifying the particular document including a plurality of fields that identify a plurality of presentation parameters associated with the particular document;

receive, from the user device, a modification to at least one of the plurality of presentation parameters; and

apply the modification to the at least one of the plurality of presentation parameters.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9,

where the plurality of different fields include a field that enables the user device to identify a quantity of content, of a particular document of the plurality of documents, that is to be presented to one or more users when the one or more users access the particular document,

where the quantity of content is greater than zero and less than an entire content of the particular document, and

where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

receive, from the one or more users, a request to access a portion of the particular document;

present, to the one or more users, the portion of the particular document;

receive, from the one or more users, a request to access an additional portion of the document;

determine whether presenting the additional portion of the document, to the one or more users, exceeds the quantity of content; and

present, to the one or more users, the additional portion of the particular document when presenting the additional portion of the document, to the one or more users, does not exceed the quantity of content.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9,

where the plurality of different fields include a field that enables the user device to identify one or more links, associated with a particular document of the plurality of documents, that are to be presented to a user when the user accesses the particular document, and

where the one or more links include a link to a web site that includes information associated with an author of the particular document.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9,

where the plurality of different fields include a field that identifies one or more advertisements to be blocked when the plurality of documents are presented to one or more users, and

where the one or more advertisements to be blocked are identified based on at least one of:

one or more keywords associated with the one or more advertisements to be blocked, or

one or more uniform resource locators (URLs) associated with the one or more advertisements to be blocked.

16. A system comprising:

one or more devices, implemented at least partially in hardware, to;

present, to a user device, a first interface that includes information identifying each of a plurality of documents,

where the information identifying each of the plurality of documents includes;

a plurality of different fields that identify presentation parameters applied to each of the plurality of documents;

detect, via the first interface, selection, from the user device, of an option to select the information identifying each of one or more documents of the plurality of documents;

present, to the user device, a second interface based on the selection of the option to select the information identifying each the one or more of the documents,

where the second interface includes the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents;

receive, via the second interface and from the user device, a modification to at least one of the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents; and

apply the modification to the at least one of the presentation parameters corresponding to the one or more documents.

17. The system of claim 16,

where the one or more devices are further to:

receive, from the user device, information identifying at least one of;

a type associated with the plurality of documents,

an author associated with the plurality of documents,

a genre of the plurality of documents, or

a range of publication dates associated with the plurality of documents, and

where the information identifying each of the plurality of documents is provided based on the information identifying at least one of the type associated with the plurality of documents, the author associated with the plurality of documents, the genre of the plurality of documents, or the range of publication dates associated with the plurality of documents.

18. The system of claim 16, where the plurality of different fields include:

a field that enables the user device to define a quantity of content of a particular document, of the plurality of documents, that is to be presented to a user when the user accesses the particular document, where the quantity is greater than zero and less than a full content of the particular document,

a field that enables the user device to identify one or more advertisements that are to be blocked when presenting the particular document to the user, or

a field that enables the user device to define one or more portions of the particular document to be provided to the user for purchase, where the one or more portions of the particular document are less than the full content of the particular document.

19. The system of claim 16, where the plurality of different fields include:

a field that enables the user device to identify one or more pages of a particular document, of the plurality of documents, that are to not be presented to a user, or

a field that enables the user device to indicate whether images, that are included in the particular document, are to be viewable to the user when presenting the particular document to the user.

20. The system of claim 16, where the information identifying each of the plurality of documents further includes:

information identifying statistics, for each document of the plurality of documents, that relate to one or more users accessing the document, where the information identifying the statistics includes at least one of;

information identifying an average quantity of pages, of the document, that are requested by the one or more users,

information identifying a number of the one or more users that access the document based on a search query, or

information identifying revenues associated with advertisements that are presented with the document.