Interactive content for digital books

• US 10,296,177 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2017
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Migos, Charles J., Bauducco, Diego, Hagele, Markus, Capela, Jay Christopher, Gehiere, Gary W., Refstrup, Jacob G., Rudolph, Christopher Erich, Rapp, Peter W., Hall, David M., Berger, Peter G., Ward, Simon Antony, Ambachtsheer, Mark, Elseth, Paul, Israelson, Steven J., Rosner, Roger Rock, Gur, Yaniv, MacLean, Alexander C., Emanuel, M. Frank, Murrett, Mac
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Manglesh M
• Application Number:
  US15/677,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20180018069A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 715246, 715863, 715200, 715201, 715255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0291 for reading, e.g. e-books constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip

Abstract

A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.

Claims

1. A method of presenting a glossary in a digital book, the method comprising:

receiving user input selecting text corresponding to particular content displayed at a particular location within digital book;

displaying, in response to receiving user input selecting text, an interactive glossary interface, the glossary interface including a plurality of glossary terms, each associated with the text shown in the particular content displayed at the particular location within the digital book;

receiving, at the interactive glossary interface, user input identifying a particular one of the plurality of glossary terms at the particular location within the digital book; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the obtaining user input identifying the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms, a glossary term definition of the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms and a list citing locations, other than the particular location, within the digital book where the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms is additionally recited within the digital book.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the interactive glossary interface, a user selection of a selected location in the list citing locations; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the receiving a user selection, additional content corresponding to the selected location within the digital book.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying, in the interactive glossary interface, a list of related glossary terms, each related glossary term being related to the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one of the related glossary terms in the list of related glossary terms; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the receiving a selection, a glossary term definition of the one of the related glossary terms and a list of locations where the one of the related glossary terms is recited in the digital book.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving user input selecting text corresponding to particular content displayed at a particular location within a digital book comprises:

receiving, in the interactive glossary interface, a search query including a search term;

in response to the receiving a search query, performing a search based on the search query;

presenting in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the performing a search, search results indicating that the search term is a glossary term; and

in response to the presenting search results, receiving, in the interactive glossary interface, user input selecting the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms from the search results.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein presenting, in the interactive glossary interface, search results indicating that the search term is a glossary term, comprises:

presenting, in the interactive glossary interface, a search results interface associated with the search term,

wherein the search results interface displays the glossary term definition, the list of citing locations, notes associated within the digital book for the search term, and images within the digital book associated with the search term.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the obtaining user input identifying the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms, an image representative of the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms.

8. A system for presenting a glossary in a digital book, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory coupled to the one or more processors and configured for storing instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations comprising;

receiving user input selecting text corresponding to particular content displayed at a particular location within a digital book;

displaying, in response to receiving user input selecting text, an interactive glossary interface, the glossary interface including a plurality of glossary terms, each associated with the text shown in the particular content displayed at the particular location within the digital book;

receiving, at the interactive glossary interface, user input identifying a particular one of the plurality of glossary terms at the particular location within the digital book; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the obtaining user input identifying the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms, a glossary term definition of the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms and a list citing locations, other than the particular location, within the digital book where the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms is additionally recited within the digital book.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving, at the interactive glossary interface, a user selection of a selected location in the list citing locations; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the receiving a user selection, additional content corresponding to the selected location within the digital book.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

displaying, in the interactive glossary interface, a list of related glossary terms, each related glossary term being related to the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one of the related glossary terms in the list of related glossary terms; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the receiving a selection, a glossary term definition of the one of the related glossary terms and a list of locations where the one of the related glossary terms is recited in the digital book.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein receiving user input selecting text corresponding to particular content displayed at a particular location within a digital book comprises:

receiving, in the interactive glossary interface, a search query including a search term;

in response to the receiving a search query, performing a search based on the search query;

presenting in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the performing a search, search results indicating that the search term is a glossary term; and

in response to the presenting search results, receiving, in the interactive glossary interface, user input selecting the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms from the search results.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein presenting, in the interactive glossary interface, search results indicating that the search term is a glossary term, comprises:

presenting, in the interactive glossary interface, a search results interface displaying the search results,

wherein the display of the search results, in the search results interface, includes display of the glossary term definition, the list of citing locations, notes associated within the digital book for the search term, and images within the digital book associated with the search term.

14. The system of claim 8, further comprising displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the obtaining user input identifying the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms, an image representative of the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms.

15. A program storage device, readable by a programmable control device, comprising instructions stored thereon for causing the programmable control device to perform operations comprising:

receiving user input selecting text corresponding to particular content displayed at a particular location within a digital book;

displaying, in response to receiving user input selecting text, an interactive glossary interface, the glossary interface including a plurality of glossary terms, each associated with the text shown in the particular content displayed at the particular location within the digital book;

receiving, at the interactive glossary interface, user input identifying a particular one of the plurality of glossary terms at the particular location within the digital book; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the obtaining user input identifying the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms, a glossary term definition of the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms and a list citing locations, other than the particular location, within the digital book where the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms is additionally recited within the digital book.

16. The program storage device of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, at the interactive glossary interface, a user selection of a selected location in the list citing locations; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the receiving a user selection, additional content corresponding to the selected location within the digital book.

17. The program storage device of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying, in the interactive glossary interface, a list of related glossary terms, each related glossary term being related to the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms.

18. The program storage device of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one of the related glossary terms in the list of related glossary terms; and

displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the receiving a selection, a glossary term definition of the one of the related glossary terms and a list of locations where the one of the related glossary terms is recited in the digital book.

19. The program storage device of claim 15, wherein receiving user input selecting text corresponding to particular content displayed at a particular location within a digital book comprises:

receiving, in the interactive glossary interface, a search query including a search term;

in response to the receiving a search query, performing a search based on the search query;

presenting in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the performing a search, search results indicating that the search term is a glossary term; and

in response to the presenting search results, receiving, in the interactive glossary interface, user input selecting the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms from the search results.

20. The program storage device of claim 19, wherein presenting, in the interactive glossary interface, search results indicating that the search term is a glossary term, comprises:

presenting, in the interactive glossary interface, a search results interface displaying the search results,

wherein the display of the search results, in the search results interface, includes display of the glossary term definition, the list of citing locations, notes associated within the digital book for the search term, and images within the digital book associated with the search term.

21. The program storage device of claim 15, further comprising displaying in the interactive glossary interface, in response to the obtaining user input identifying the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms, an image representative of the particular one of the plurality of glossary terms.