Providing supplemental information for a digital work in a user interface

• US 10,481,767 B1
• Filed: 09/04/2015
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Goodspeed, Joshua M., Hamaker, Janna S., Killalea, Peter Thomas, Iser, Adam Joseph, Patnia, Abhishek, Taborisskaya, Alla
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Jennifer N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yoon, Eric J
• Application Number:
  US14/846,157
• Time in Patent Office: 1,537 Days
• Field of Search: 715810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3328 using graphical result space presentation or visualisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• 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 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

In some implementations, a device displays a user interface that provides supplemental information in connection with a digital work. For example, the supplemental information may include a listing of objects identified in the digital work. Further, a visual representation may be displayed with each listed object. The visual representation for each listed object may provide a representation of at least one location of at least one occurrence of the object in the digital work. The objects may be displayed according to a supplemental information view, a page view, a chapter view, a book view, a series view, a library view, or the like. Additionally, one or more object buttons may be displayed concurrently with the listing of objects. The object buttons may correspond to the types of objects displayed, and may be selected to limit the displayed objects to a particular type.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

presenting a digital work including objects;

receiving an indication of a selection of an object of the objects, the object including at least one of a word or a phrase included in the digital work; and

at least partly in response to the receiving of the indication of the selection of the object, presenting a user interface including a series view, the series view presenting information about one or more of the objects including the object from a series that includes digital works including the digital work, individual digital works of the digital works in the series having an individual publication date and title, and the user interface comprising;

visual representations corresponding to the one or more objects associated with the digital works, each of the visual representations including an identifier of one of the objects and one or more indications of location or frequency of occurrence of the object with respect to the series of the digital works; and

a bar overlaid on at least a portion of the visual representations corresponding to the one or more indications, a first location of the bar indicating a selected digital work in the series, the selected digital work distinguished from other digital works in the series, a first size of the bar at the first location indicating a first proportion between a first overall size of the digital work as compared to a total size of the digital works in the series, and

wherein the bar includes a navigational element to allow navigation of the bar to a second location indicating an additional digital work in the series, the additional work distinguished from the other digital works in the series, a second size of the bar at the second location indicating a second proportion between a second overall size of the additional digital work as compared to the total size of the digital works in the series.

2. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a supplemental information view interface including an excerpt of text drawn from the digital work, the excerpt of text including an occurrence of at least one of the objects.

3. The device as recited in claim 2, wherein the supplemental information view interface includes a slider presented with the visual representations, the slider positioned on the visual representations in relation to an occurrence of the excerpt.

4. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a supplemental information view interface including content related to at least one of the objects, the content including information about the at least one of the objects obtained from an external source.

5. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises:

a page view interface including an additional object contained in a page of the digital work from which at least one of the objects was selected and an additional visual representation corresponding to the additional object; and

a graphic element that includes a line presented on the visual representations, a location of the line corresponding to the page of the digital work with respect to a total number of pages in the digital work.

6. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the bar comprises a first bar, and the user interface comprises:

a chapter view interface including an additional object contained in a chapter of the digital work from which at least one of the objects was selected and an additional visual representation corresponding to the additional object; and

a graphic element that includes a second bar presented on the visual representations, a location of the second bar corresponding to the chapter of the digital work with respect to a total number of chapters of the digital work.

7. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a book view interface including at least one additional object contained in multiple chapters of the digital work from which at least one of the objects was selected.

8. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

presenting a digital work on a display;

receiving an indication of a selection of an object of objects associated with the digital work; and

at least partly in response to the receiving of the indication of the selection of the object, presenting a user interface, the user interface including;

visual representations corresponding to the objects associated with a series of digital works that includes the digital work, individual digital works of the digital works in the series having an individual publication date and title, each of the visual representations including an identifier of one of the objects and one or more indications of location or frequency of occurrence of the object with respect to the series of the digital works; and

a bar overlaid on at least a portion of the visual representations corresponding to the one or more indications, a first location of the bar indicating a selected digital work in the series, the selected digital work distinguished from other digital works in the series, a first width of the bar at the first location corresponding to a first size of the selected digital work as compared to an overall size of the series of the digital works, and

wherein the bar includes a navigational element to allow navigation of the bar to a second location indicating an additional digital work in the series, the additional work distinguished from the other digital works in the series, a second width of the bar at the second location corresponding to a second size of the additional digital work as compared to the overall size of the series of the digital works.

9. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein presenting the user interface comprises presenting the user interface in a separate window overlaid on the digital work.

10. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein the user interface includes a button corresponding to a type of object for the object.

11. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein:

the user interface includes a listing of the objects, the listing of the objects including the object;

the button includes an indication of a number of the objects from the listing that match the type of object; and

selection of the button causes an additional object that does not match the type of object to be removed from the listing.

12. The system of claim 8, the operations further comprising identifying the objects based at least in part on statistical analysis techniques.

13. The system of claim 8, the operations further comprising identifying the objects based at least in part on cross referencing the objects with external information sources.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the digital work comprises a first digital work, and the operations further comprising:

receiving input data indicating that a second digital work in the series of digital works has been selected;

generating a rendering of the bar having a third width corresponding to a size of the second digital work as compared to the overall size of the series of the digital works; and

causing the rendering of the bar to be overlaid on a portion of the visual representations corresponding to the second digital work.

15. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors of an electronic device specifically configured with executable instructions,

presenting a digital work including objects;

receiving a selection of an object of the objects, the object including at least one of a word or phrase selected from the digital work; and

at least partly in response to the receiving of the selection of the object, presenting a user interface, the user interface including;

a visual representation including an identifier of the object and one or more indications of location or frequency of occurrence of the object in the digital work in proportion to a total length of a series of digital works that includes the digital work, individual digital works of the digital works in the series having an individual publication date and title; and

a graphic element overlaid on at least a portion of the visual representation, a first location of the graphic element indicating a selected digital work in the series, the selected digital work distinguished from other digital works in the series, a first expanse of the graphic element at the first location indicating a first proportion between a first length of the digital work as compared to an overall length of the series of the digital works, and

wherein the graphic element includes a navigational element to allow navigation of the graphic element to a second location indicating an additional digital work in the series, the additional digital work distinguished from the other digital works in the series, a second expanse of the graphic element at the second location indicating a second proportion between a second length of the additional digital work as compared to the overall length of the series of the digital works.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising presenting an excerpt of text drawn from the digital work within the user interface, the excerpt of text including an occurrence of the object.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising presenting a slider at a location on the visual representation, the location indicating an occurrence of the excerpt.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising presenting content related to the object within the user interface, the content including information about the object obtained from an external source.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the graphic element comprises a first graphic element, and further comprising:

presenting at least one of the objects contained in a page of the digital work from which the object was selected within the user interface;

presenting an additional visual representation corresponding to the at least one of the objects within the user interface; and

presenting a second graphic element indicating the current position on the visual representation, wherein the second graphic element includes a line positioned at a location on the visual representation that corresponds to the page of the digital work with respect to a total number of pages in the digital work.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the graphic element comprises a first graphic element, and further comprising:

presenting at least one of the objects contained in a chapter of the digital work from which the object was selected; and

presenting a second graphic element indicating the current position on the visual representation, wherein the second graphic element includes a bar positioned at a location on the visual representation that corresponds to the chapter of the digital work with respect to a total number of chapters in the digital work.