Audio book and e-book synchronization

• US 9,323,756 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2010
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Locker, Howard, Keown, William Fred Jr., Rutledge, James Stephen, Seethaler, Kenneth Scott, Springfield, Randall Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Luu, Le H
• Application Number:
  US12/728,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20110231474A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,227 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205, 455/414.3, 382/229, 715/202
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

An electronic device receives a stop position tag that indicates a stop position within first electronic content which is a first sensory type. The electronic device identifies a start position within second electronic content using the stop position tag. The second electronic content is a second sensory type that is different than the first sensory type. In turn, the electronic device executes the second electronic content at the identified start position. In one embodiment, the first sensory type is an auditory sensory type and the second sensory type is an image sensory type.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method comprising:

receiving a stop position tag that indicates a stop position within first electronic content, the first electronic content having a first sensory type;

identifying a start position within second electronic content using the stop position tag, wherein the second electronic content has a second sensory type that is different than the first sensory type; and

activating a sensory output of an electronic device at the start position of the second electronic content;

wherein at least one of the first and second sensory types is a touch sensory type.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

extracting a time-based audio identifier from the stop position tag that corresponds with a stop position within the first electronic content;

identifying a time-based text identifier that corresponds with the extracted time-based audio identifier; and

selecting, as the start position, a time-based text location within the second electronic content that corresponds with the identified time-based text identifier.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the stop position corresponds to a time-based text identifier, the method further comprising:

identifying a time-based audio identifier that corresponds to the time-based text identifier; and

selecting, as the start position, a time-based audio location that corresponds to the identified time-based audio identifier.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the second electronic content has an image sensory type, the method further comprising:

displaying a portion of the second electronic content to a user; and

overlaying, on the displayed portion of the second electronic content, a starting position identifier at the start position.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending a synchronization request over a computer network; and

receiving the stop position tag in response to the synchronization request.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the stop position corresponds to a trigger event that is at least in part established by a voice command.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic device executes both the first electronic content and the second electronic content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch sensory type at least in part includes the use of brail characters.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the stop position corresponds to a trigger event that is at least in part established by touch input.

10. An information handling system comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory accessible by at least one of the processors;

a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of;

receiving a stop position tag that indicates a stop position within first electronic content, the first electronic content having a first sensory type;

identifying a start position within second electronic content using the stop position tag, wherein the second electronic content has a second sensory type that is different than the first sensory type; and

activating a sensory output of an electronic device at the beginning of the paragraph including the start position of the second electronic content;

wherein at least one of the first and second sensory types is a touch sensory type.

11. The information handling system of claim 10 wherein the set of instructions, when executed by at least one of the processors, further performs actions of:

extracting a time-based audio identifier from the stop position tag that corresponds with a stop position within the first electronic content;

identifying a time-based text identifier that corresponds with the extracted time-based audio identifier; and

selecting, as the start position, a time-based text location within the second electronic content that corresponds with the identified time-based text identifier.

12. The information handling system of claim 10 wherein the stop position corresponds to a time-based text identifier, and wherein the set of instructions, when executed by at least one of the processors, further performs actions of:

identifying a time-based audio identifier that corresponds to the time-based text identifier; and

selecting, as the start position, a time-based audio location that corresponds to the identified time-based audio identifier.

13. The information handling system of claim 10 wherein the second electronic content has an image sensory type, and wherein the set of instructions, when executed by at least one of the processors, further performs actions of:

displaying a portion of the second electronic content to a user; and

overlaying, on the displayed portion of the second electronic content, a starting position identifier at the start position.

14. The information handling system of claim 10 wherein the set of instructions, when executed by at least one of the processors, further performs actions of:

sending a synchronization request over a computer network; and

receiving the stop position tag in response to the synchronization request.

15. A computer program product stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include:

receiving a stop position tag that indicates a stop position within first electronic content, the first electronic content having a first sensory type;

identifying a start position within second electronic content using the stop position tag, wherein the second electronic content has a second sensory type that is different than the first sensory type; and

activating a sensory output of an electronic device at the start position of the second electronic content;

wherein at least one of the first and second sensory types is a touch sensory type.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the functional descriptive material, when executed by the information handling system, causes the information handling system to further performs actions of:

extracting a time-based audio identifier from the stop position tag that corresponds with a stop position within the first electronic content;

identifying a time-based text identifier that corresponds with the extracted time-based audio identifier; and

selecting, as the start position, a time-based text location within the second electronic content that corresponds with the identified time-based text identifier.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the stop position corresponds to a time-based text identifier, and wherein the functional descriptive material, when executed by the information handling system, causes the information handling system to further performs actions of:

identifying a time-based audio identifier that corresponds to the time-based text identifier; and

selecting, as the start position, a time-based audio location that corresponds to the identified time-based audio identifier.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the second electronic content has an image sensory type, and wherein the functional descriptive material, when executed by the information handling system, causes the information handling system to further performs actions of:

displaying a portion of the second electronic content to a user; and

overlaying, on the displayed portion of the second electronic content, a starting position identifier at the start position.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the functional descriptive material, when executed by the information handling system, causes the information handling system to further performs actions of:

sending a synchronization request over a computer network; and

receiving the stop position tag in response to the synchronization request.