Object oriented interactions

• US 10,042,530 B1
• Filed: 07/09/2014
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: MacInnis, Charles M, Cromwell, Robert, Forman, Joshua John, Knowles, Kenneth Lorenz, Cho, Peter S, Campiranon, Chatree, Haney, Aaron, Ballard, Kevin, Kyle, Scott William, Halsall, Anne K, Wight, Jonathan
• Primary Examiner(s): Xia, Xuyang
• Application Number:
  US14/327,550
• Time in Patent Office: 1,490 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour

Abstract

A system and method of social interaction includes receiving interaction information for an interaction created by a first user of an electronic content work, the interaction information comprising an identification number of a portion of the electronic content work associated with the interaction. The system and method includes storing the received interaction information. The system and method also includes receiving a request from a second user requesting interaction information for a requested portion of the electronic content work. the system and method also includes sending the received interaction information in response to determining that the identification number associated with the received interaction information matches the identification in the request for interaction information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at an interaction service system, information concerning a plurality of interactions with an electronic content work, the information for each interaction from the plurality of interactions comprising an identifier for one or more items of content of the electronic content work corresponding to the interaction from the plurality of interactions, the plurality of interactions comprising either or both note and highlighting interactions created by one or more content viewers;

sending a plurality of sections of the electronic content work to display concurrently within a user interface of a content creator application executed on a computing device in response to a user input; and

sending to display within the user interface of the content creator application a heat map with the electronic content work within the user interface in response to the user input, wherein the heat map shows the plurality of sections comprising two or more items of content of the electronic content work within the user interface that are interacted with by at least one of the one or more content viewers in accordance with the received information, and wherein the two or more items of content comprise two or more different item types selected from an interactive exhibit, an image file, a video file, an audio file, and words or text sections, wherein a popularity of each section of the plurality of sections is overlaid on top of the each section within the heat map, the popularity corresponding to a total number of identifiers to the one or more items of content within the each respective section.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the heat map comprises at least one of (a) overlaying the heat map onto the electronic content work, and (b) displaying the heat map in a margin of the electronic content work.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the heat map shows sections of the electronic content work most interacted with by the one or more content viewers.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of interactions is filtered by at least one of a geolocation, a group of users, a user, an interaction type, and a time.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one privacy preference for a content viewer is overridden to receive the information on shared interactions by the content viewer.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one privacy preference permits interaction information of a content viewer to be shared with a content creator.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one interaction from the plurality was provided with an external network service and exported back to an interaction service.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one interaction from the plurality is supplemental material provided by a content creator.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of interactions comprise at least one of a note, a discussion, a highlight, an annotation, a copying request, a question, a comment, and an exchange of input and output between a user and a client application displaying the electronic content work to the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein a report is generated for a content creator concerning the at least one section of the electronic content work, the report comprising at least one of:

a number of interactions, a type of interaction, and content of an interaction, respectively, for the at least one section.

11. A system of providing a heat map within a user interface of a content creator application that shows items of content from an electronic content work that are interacted with, the system comprising:

one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured, when executing the instructions to;

receive, at an interaction service of the system, information concerning a plurality of interactions with an electronic content work, the information for each interaction from the plurality of interactions comprising an identifier for one or more items of content of the electronic content work corresponding to the interaction from the plurality of interactions, the plurality of interactions comprising either or both note and highlighting interactions created by one or more content viewers;

send a plurality of sections of the electronic content work to display concurrently within the user interface of the content creator application executed on a computing device in response to a user input; and

send to display within the user interface of the content creator application a heat map with the electronic content work within the user interface in response to the user input, wherein the heat map shows the plurality of sections comprising two or more items of content of the electronic content work within the user interface that are interacted with by at least one of the one or more content viewers in accordance with the received information, and wherein the two or more items of content comprise two or more different item types selected from an interactive exhibit, an image file, a video file, an audio file, and words or text sections, wherein a popularity of each section of the plurality of sections is overlaid on top of the each section within the heat map, the popularity corresponding to a total number of identifiers to the one or more items of content within the each respective section.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the displaying of the heat map comprises at least one of (a) overlaying the heat map onto the electronic content work, and (b) displaying the heat map in a margin of the electronic content work.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the heat map shows sections of the electronic content work most interacted with by the one or more content viewers.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of interactions is filtered by at least one of a geolocation, a group of users, a user, an interaction type, and a time.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of interactions comprise at least one of a note, a discussion, a highlight, an annotation, a copying request, a question, a comment, and an exchange of input and output between a user and a client application displaying the electronic content work to the user.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein a report is generated for a content creator concerning the at least one section of the electronic content work, the report comprising at least one of:

a number of interactions, a type of interaction, and content of an interaction, respectively, for the at least one section.