Interactions for viewing content in a digital magazine

• US 9,712,575 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Flipboard Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Flipboard Incorporated
• Inventors: Ying, Charles H., Weskamp, Marcos A., Hilhorst, Didier, Johnston, Michael, Doll, Evan R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie
• Application Number:
  US14/024,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074624A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,406 Days
• 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 interacts with a client device presenting one or more content items from the digital magazine server to access various content items identified by the digital magazine server. For example, the user interacts with a portion of a display device of the client device and traverses to an additional portion of the display device to view additional content items on the display device. Based on a rate at which the user traverses from the portion to the additional portion, a content update rate is determined and used to select an indication of modification that is presented. The indication of modification provides the user with a visual indication that the content items presented by the display device are modified, and may include a subset of content items from the digital magazine server if the content update rate does not exceed a threshold.

Claims

1. A method for displaying updates to one or more content items 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 presented 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 and traversing to an additional portion of the display device;

obtaining a threshold from information associated with the user by the digital magazine server, the threshold based on previous content update rates of the user based on previous rates at which the user traversed between different portions of the display device;

determining a content update rate based at least in part on a rate at which the user traverses from the portion of the display device to the additional portion of the display device; and

responsive to the content update rate exceeding the threshold, displaying images representing page edge turns comprising edges of pages that do not include content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to the content update rate being less than or equal to the threshold, displaying a subset of content items included on one or more pages of the digital magazine other than a page including the displayed one or more content items.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the subset of content items included on one or more pages are selected from one or more pages stored in a memory of the client device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying one or more content items from one or more additional pages of the digital magazine that are subsequent to a page in the digital magazine including modified content items after the content items being displayed are modified.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an additional page in the digital magazine different than a page including the displayed content items after the content items being displayed are modified.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the additional page is selected from one or more pages stored in a memory of the client device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more pages stored in the memory of the client device include a page previously viewed by the user within a threshold time interval of a current time.

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

9. 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.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the input from the user is selected from a group consisting of:

a gesture, 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.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the traversal from the portion to the additional portion has a measured magnitude and one or more measured directions of movement.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the information associated with the user by the digital magazine server comprises previous content update rates of the user.

13. A method for displaying updates to one or more content items, 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 presented 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 and traversing to an additional portion of the display device;

obtaining a threshold from information associated with the user by the digital magazine server, the threshold based on previous content update rates of the user;

determining a content update rate based at least in part on a rate at which the user traverses from the portion of the display device to the additional portion of the display device; and

responsive to the received input, displaying an indication of modification of the content items displayed, the displayed indication comprising images representing page edges of pages that do not include content, when the content update rate exceeds the threshold.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

responsive to the content update rate being less than or equal to the threshold, displaying a subset of content items included on one or more pages of the digital magazine other than a page including the displayed one or more content items.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the subset of content items included on one or more pages are selected from one or more pages stored in a memory of the client device.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying one or more content items from one or more additional pages of the digital magazine that are subsequent to a page in the digital magazine including modified content items after the content items being displayed are modified.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying an additional page in the digital magazine different than a page including the displayed content items after the content items being displayed are modified.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the input from the user is selected from a group consisting of:

a gesture, 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.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the traversal from the portion to the additional portion has a measured magnitude and one or more measured directions of movement.

20. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive 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;

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

receive an input from the user interacting with a portion of the display device and traversing to an additional portion of the display device;

obtain a threshold from information associated with the user by the digital magazine server, the threshold based on previous content update rates of the user;

determine a content update rate based at least in part on a rate at which the user traverses from the portion of the display device to the additional portion of the display device; and

display an indication of modification of the content items displayed, the display indication comprising images representing page edges of pages that do not include content, when the content update rate exceeds the threshold.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

responsive to the content update rate being less than or equal to the threshold, display a subset of content items included on one or more pages of the digital magazine other than a page including the displayed one or more content items.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the subset of content items included on one or more pages are selected from one or more pages stored in a memory of the client device.

23. The method of claim 20, further comprising displaying one or more content items from one or more additional pages of the digital magazine that are subsequent to a page in the digital magazine including modified content items after the content items being displayed are modified.

24. The method of claim 20, further comprising displaying an additional page in the digital magazine different than a page including the displayed content items after the content items being displayed are modified.