ELECTRONIC READING POSITION MANAGEMENT FOR PRINTED CONTENT

• US 20150220479A1
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Audible Incorporated (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Audible Incorporated (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hwang, Douglas Cho
• Application Number:
  US14/622,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20150220479A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0291 for reading, e.g. e-books constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00331 with an apparatus performing optical character recognition character recognition G06V30/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00795 Reading arrangements details of scanning heads H04N1/024; scanning arrangements therefor H04N1/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera

Abstract

Features are disclosed for facilitating content consumption among various formats or representations of a content item. An electronic device may be used to maintain a current content position when consuming a physical printed representation of a content item, either alone or in conjunction with an electronic representation of the content item. The electronic device may be used to retrieve, from a network-accessible server, a user'"'"'s last position within the content item. The user may then turn to the location within the physical printed representation that corresponds to the last position within the electronic representation. Highlights, comments and other content interactions may be maintained by the electronic device and stored at the network accessible server. From there, content interaction data may be subsequently obtained by the user when resuming content consumption, either from the same device or a different device.

Claims

1-32. -32. (canceled)

33. A device comprising:

a data store configured to store computer-executable instructions; and

one or more processors in communication with the data store, the one or more processors configured by the computer-executable instructions to at least;

receive a request for data regarding a location within a physical version of a book from which to resume reading;

obtain a machine-readable representation of information associated with the physical version of the book;

determine, using the information associated with the physical version of the book, a book identifier of the physical version of the book;

transmit the book identifier to a computing system separate from the device;

receive, from the computing system, the data regarding the location within the physical version of the book from which to resume reading, wherein the location within the physical version of the book from which to resume reading corresponds to a previously-reached location in an electronic version of the book; and

cause presentation of the data.

34. The device of claim 33, wherein the previously-reached location in the electronic version of the book is identified by the computing system using at least the book identifier.

35. The device of claim 33, wherein presentation of the data regarding the location within the physical version of the book from which to resume reading comprises display of a page position indicator that indicates a position on a page of the physical version of the book, the position corresponding to the location within the physical version of the book.

36. The device of claim 33, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by the computer-executable instructions to at least:

obtain a page number of a page of the printed version of the book;

determine, using the page number, a location reached within the physical version of the book; and

transmit, to the computing system, the book identifier and the location reached within the physical version of the book.

37. The device of claim 33, further comprising a microphone in communication with the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by the computer-executable instructions to at least:

receive, via the microphone, audio data for an annotation to a portion of the physical version of the book; and

transmit, to the computing system, the book identifier and at least a portion of the audio data.

38. A computer-implemented method comprising:

under control of a computing device configured to execute specific instructions,

receiving a request for a location within a physical version of a content item from which to resume reading;

transmitting a content identifier to a computing system, wherein the content identifier identifies the physical version of the content item;

receiving, from the computing system, data regarding the location within the physical version of the content item,

wherein the location within the physical version of the content item corresponds to a previously-reached location in an electronic version of the content item, and

wherein the previously-reached location in the electronic version of the content item is identified by the computing system using at least the content identifier; and

causing presentation of the data regarding the location within the physical version of the content item.

39. The computer-implemented method of claim 38, wherein the data regarding the location with the physical version of the content item comprises at least one of a page number, a location of a paragraph, a location of a sentence, or a position on a page.

40. The computer-implemented method of claim 38, wherein the presentation of the data regarding the location with the physical version of the content item comprises a display of a page position indicator that indicates a position on a page of the physical version of the content item, the position on the page corresponding to the location within the physical version of the content item.

41. The computer-implemented method of claim 38, further comprising causing an image sensor to record an image of at least a portion of the physical version of the content item.

42. The computer-implemented method of claim 41, further comprising determining the content identifier from at least a machine-readable representation of information present in the image.

43. The computer-implemented method of claim 41, further comprising:

determining a location reached in the physical version of the content item from at least a page number present in the image; and

transmitting data regarding the location reached in the physical version of the content item to the computing system.

44. The computer-implemented method of claim 38, further comprising causing presentation of content item options, wherein a first content item option of the content item options corresponds to the content item, and wherein receiving the request for the location within the physical version of the content item comprises receiving input regarding selection of the first option.

45. The computer-implemented method of claim 38, further comprising:

receiving, from a microphone, a content annotation; and

transmitting data regarding the content annotation to the computing system.

46. A non-transitory computer storage medium which stores a computer-executable module that configures one or more processors to at least:

transmit a content identifier to a computing system, wherein the content identifier identifies a physical version of a content item;

receive, from the computing system, data regarding a location within the physical version of the content item from which to resume reading,

wherein the location within the physical version of the content item corresponds to a previously-reached location in an electronic version of the content item, and

wherein the previously-reached location in the electronic version of the content item is identified by the computing system using at least the content identifier; and

cause presentation of the data regarding the location within the physical version of the content item.

47. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 46, wherein the data regarding the location with the physical version of the content item comprises at least one of a page number, a location of a paragraph, a location of a sentence, or a position on a page.

48. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 46, wherein the presentation of the data regarding the location with the physical version of the content item comprises a display of a page position indicator that indicates a position on a page of the physical version of the content item, the position on the page corresponding to the location within the physical version of the content item.

49. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 46, wherein the computer-executable module further configures the one or more processors to at least obtain machine-readable information associated with at least a portion of the physical version of the content item.

50. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 46, wherein the computer-executable module further configures the one or more processors to at least determine the content identifier from at least a machine-readable representation of information present in the image.

51. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 50, wherein the computer-executable module further configures the one or more processors to at least:

determine a location reached in the physical version of the content item from at least a page number present in the image; and

transmit data regarding the location reached in the physical version of the content item to the computing system.

52. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 50, wherein the computer-executable module further configures the one or more processors to at least:

cause presentation of content item options, wherein a first content item option of the content item options corresponds to the content item; and

receive input regarding selection of the first option, wherein the input corresponds to a request for the location within the version of the content item.

53. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 46, wherein the computer-executable module further configures the one or more processors to at least:

receive, from a microphone, a content annotation; and

transmit data regarding the content annotation to the computing system.