ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY

• US 20130219270A1
• Filed: 03/25/2013
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Cranfill, Elizabeth Caroline Furches, Heller, David, Robbin, Jeffrey, Cannistraro, Alan C., Bachman, William Martin, Martin, Timothy B., Evans, Matt, Howard, Joe R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,928,218 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/269
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content

Abstract

Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf, determining a state for the first publication and modifying the representation of the first publication to reflect the state of the first publication.

Claims

1. A method of presenting information to a user, the method comprising:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page in a first orientation;

presenting a first portion of the electronic book in the first orientation;

enabling a user to manipulate an orientation of the electronic device from a first orientation to a second orientation;

determining whether to preserve a font size;

identifying, based on the first portion and in response to determining to preserve the font size, a second portion that will be displayed in the second orientation; and

displaying, in the second orientation, the second portion.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein enabling the user to manipulate the orientation of the electronic device from the first orientation to the second orientation includes enabling the user to switch from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein identifying the second portion includes identifying content for removal from the first portion in order to render the second portion.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein enabling the user to manipulate the orientation of the electronic device from the first orientation to the second orientation includes enabling the user to switch from a portrait orientation to a landscape orientation that displays two pages.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein identifying the second portion includes identifying additional content to supplement the first portion in order to render the second portion.

6. A method of presenting information to a user, the method comprising:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page in a first orientation;

presenting a first portion of the electronic book in the first orientation;

enabling a user to manipulate an orientation of the electronic device from a first orientation to a second orientation;

determining whether to preserve a font size;

identifying, based on the first portion and in response to determining to not preserve the font size, a second portion that will be displayed in the second orientation; and

displaying, in the second orientation, the second portion.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein enabling the user to manipulate the orientation of the electronic device from the first orientation to the second orientation includes enabling the user to switch from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein identifying the second portion includes identifying a font size to be used to render the second portion.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein enabling the user to manipulate the orientation of the electronic device from the first orientation to the second orientation includes enabling the user to switch from a portrait orientation to a landscape orientation that displays two pages.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein identifying the second portion includes identifying a font size to be used to render the second portion.

11. A system, comprising a processor and instructions that when performed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page in a first orientation;

presenting a first portion of the electronic book in the first orientation;

enabling a user to manipulate an orientation of the electronic device from a first orientation to a second orientation;

determining whether to preserve a font size;

identifying, based on the first portion and in response to determining to preserve the font size, a second portion that will be displayed in the second orientation; and

displaying, in the second orientation, the second portion.

12. A system, comprising a processor and instructions that when performed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page in a first orientation;

presenting a first portion of the electronic book in the first orientation;

enabling a user to manipulate an orientation of the electronic device from a first orientation to a second orientation;

determining whether to preserve a font size;

identifying, based on the first portion and in response to determining to not preserve the font size, a second portion that will be displayed in the second orientation; and

displaying, in the second orientation, the second portion.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed on a processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page in a first orientation;

presenting a first portion of the electronic book in the first orientation;

enabling a user to manipulate an orientation of the electronic device from a first orientation to a second orientation;

determining whether to preserve a font size;

identifying, based on the first portion and in response to determining to preserve the font size, a second portion that will be displayed in the second orientation; and

displaying, in the second orientation, the second portion.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed on a processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page in a first orientation;

presenting a first portion of the electronic book in the first orientation;

enabling a user to manipulate an orientation of the electronic device from a first orientation to a second orientation;

determining whether to preserve a font size;

identifying, based on the first portion and in response to determining to not preserve the font size, a second portion that will be displayed in the second orientation; and

displaying, in the second orientation, the second portion.