Navigating supplemental information for a digital work

• US 9,471,547 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• 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, Iser, Adam J., Killalea, Peter Thomas, Patnia, Abhishek, Taborisskaya, Alla
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Quoc A
• Application Number:
  US13/246,798
• Time in Patent Office: 1,848 Days
• Field of Search: 715/716, 715/208, 715/864, 715/767, 715/776, 715/802, 715804-805, 715/817, 715/851, 715/273, 705/10
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 digital work may include a plurality of objects that may be selected to view supplemental information. A supplemental information user interface may include a listing of objects from the digital work. For instance, the listing may include a selected object appearing at an identified location in the digital work. The user interface may further present a visual representation displayed with each object that provides an indication of at least one location of at least one occurrence of the corresponding object in the digital work. In some examples, a user may navigate between a supplemental information view user interface, a page view user interface, a chapter view user interface, a book view user interface, a series view user interface, and/or a library view user interface to view occurrences of a particular object in the digital work or other digital works.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media maintaining instructions executable by a processor of an electronic device to perform operations comprising:

presenting text content of a page of a digital work on a display of the electronic device, the digital work including multiple pages of text content;

receiving, by the electronic device, a selection of an object of text, wherein the selected object is representative of at least one of a character, a place, a thing, a phrase of interest, or an event included in the text content of the page of the digital work;

presenting, on the display, a page view user interface that includes;

a listing of objects of text, the listing including the selected object and one or more other objects included in the text content of the page with the selected object; and

for at least one object in the listing of objects,

a respective visual representation corresponding to the at least one object in the listing, the visual representation comprising at least one graphical marking indicating at least one location and a frequency of which an instance of the at least one object occurs in the digital work, the at least one graphical marking displayed in an area representative of a total length of the digital work.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving a user input for navigating to a supplemental information view user interface; and

presenting the supplemental information view user interface on the display, wherein the supplemental information view user interface includes at least one of;

at least one excerpt of text from the digital work, the at least one excerpt of text including an occurrence of the selected object;

or

content that includes information about the selected object, the content obtained from a source external to the digital work.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving a user input for navigating to another page of the digital work in the page view user interface; and

presenting in the listing of objects in the page view user interface one or more objects that are included in the other page of the digital work.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving a user input for navigating to a chapter view user interface; and

presenting the chapter view user interface on the display, wherein the chapter view user interface includes a listing of objects that are included in the chapter within which the object was selected.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving a user input for navigating to a book view user interface; and

presenting the book view user interface on the display, wherein the book view user interface includes a listing of objects that are included in the digital work within which the object was selected.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, the operations further comprising:

prior to presenting the page view user interface, displaying a control on the display in response to the selection of the object; and

receiving a user selection of the control to cause the presenting of the page view user interface.

7. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one graphical marking comprises at least one of a line, a bar, a circle, or a color.

8. A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors of a device specifically configured with executable instructions;

presenting text content of a digital work on a display of the device, the digital work including multiple pages of text content;

receiving, by the device, a selection of an object of text, wherein the selected object is representative of at least one of a character, a place, a thing, a phrase of interest, or an event included in the text content of the digital work;

presenting, on the display, a user interface that includes a listing of objects of text from the digital work, the listing including the selected object, wherein at least one of the objects in the listing of objects occurs at multiple locations in the digital work; and

presenting in the user interface a respective visual representation corresponding to each object listed in the listing of objects, the visual representation for each object listed providing at least one graphical marking indicating at least one location and a frequency of which an instance of the object listed occurs in the digital work.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the listing of objects includes multiple different objects from a single page of the digital work, the method further comprising:

presenting a line traversing the visual representations, the line representing a location of the single page with respect to the visual representations;

receiving a selection of a control to navigate to display of a listing of objects for a different page of the digital work; and

changing a location of the line with respect to the visual representations to reflect the location of the different page with respect to the visual representations.

10. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising presenting a control for navigating between a page view, in which the listing of objects includes objects from a single page of the digital work, and a book view, in which the listing of objects includes objects from an entirety of the digital work.

11. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising presenting a control for navigating between a page view, in which the listing of objects includes objects from a single page of the digital work, and a chapter view, in which the listing of objects includes objects from a single chapter of the digital work.

12. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising presenting a control for navigating between a chapter view, in which the listing of objects includes objects from a single chapter of the digital work, and a book view, in which the listing of objects includes objects from an entirety of the digital work.

13. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising presenting a control for navigating to a series view in which the listing of objects includes objects from a series of digital works including the digital work.

14. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising presenting a control for navigating to a library view in which a listing of titles of a plurality of digital works are displayed, each digital work of the plurality of digital works listed in the listing including at least one occurrence of the selected object.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein the library view further includes a respective visual representation corresponding to each listed digital work, the respective visual representation corresponding to each digital work indicating a location of the at least one occurrence of the selected object in the listed digital work.

16. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one of the objects displayed in the listing of objects; and

displaying a supplemental information view, the supplemental information view providing at least one excerpt of text taken from the digital work, the at least one excerpt of text including an occurrence of the object selected from the listing.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein displaying the supplemental information view further comprises displaying, with the at least one excerpt of text taken from the digital work, content related to the object selected from the listing, wherein the content is obtained from a source external to the digital work.

18. The method as recited in claim 17, wherein the content from the source external to the digital work includes at least one of:

text describing the object selected from the listing;

an image related to the object selected from the listing;

a video clip related to the object selected from the listing;

or

an audio clip related to the object selected from the listing.

19. A device comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

one or more computer-readable media; and

a module maintained on the one or more computer-readable media and executed on the one or more processors to perform operations that include;

receiving a selection of an object of text from among a plurality of objects of text identified in a digital work, wherein the selected object is identified as representative of at least one of a character, a place, a thing, a phrase of interest, or an event included in the digital work; and

presenting a user interface that includes;

excerpts of text taken from the digital work, each excerpt of text including an occurrence of the selected object, wherein at least one of the excerpts is presented based on an alternate name for the selected object; and

a visual representation for the selected object providing an indication of at least one position and a frequency of which an instance of the selected object occurs in the digital work, the visual representation including a first graphical marking corresponding to a first position associated with an occurrence of an instance of the selected object and a second graphical marking corresponding to a second position associated with an occurrence of another instance of the selected object, the first graphical marking and the second graphical marking being displayed in proportion to a total length of the digital work.

20. The device as recited in claim 19, wherein the user interface further comprises:

a slider presented with the visual representation to indicate a current location of the excerpts of text taken from the digital work, such that a size of the slider presented varies with respect to the visual representation depending on a distance between the excerpts of text currently displayed in comparison with the total length of the digital work.

21. The device as recited in claim 20, wherein movement of the slider with respect to the visual representation results in display of one or more different excerpts of text taken from the digital work corresponding to an area of coverage of the slider with respect to the graphical markings in the visual representation.

22. The device as recited in claim 19, further comprising presenting content related to the selected object in the user interface, wherein the content is obtained from a source external to the digital work.

23. The device as recited in claim 22, wherein the content from the source external to the digital work includes at least one of:

text describing the selected object;

an image related to the selected object;

a video clip related to the selected object;

or

an audio clip related to the selected object.

24. The device as recited in claim 19, wherein:

the user interface is displayed in a window presented over a display of the digital work; and

closing the window results in display of the digital work.

25. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media maintaining instructions executable by a processor of an electronic device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a selection of an object of text from a digital work, wherein instances of the selected object occur at multiple locations in the digital work, wherein the selected object is representative of at least one of a character, a place, a thing, a phrase of interest, or an event included in the digital work;

presenting a first view in a user interface that includes;

a listing of objects of text that includes at least the selected object; and

a visual representation displayed with the selected object in the listing, the visual representation providing a representation of graphical markings indicating locations of at least one occurrence and a frequency of which the instances of the selected object occur in the digital work in proportion to a total length of the digital work;

receiving a user input to navigate to a second view in the user interface; and

presenting the second view in the user interface such that the listing includes at least one other object from the digital work not previously included in the listing and at least one other visual representation corresponding to the at least one other object in the listing.

26. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 25, wherein:

the first view is a first page view corresponding to a particular page of the digital work, and the user input is for navigating to a second page view in the user interface as the second view, corresponding to a different page of the digital work;

the listing in the first view of the user interface includes one or more objects, including the selected object, that are included on the particular page of the digital work; and

the listing in the second view of the user interface includes one or more objects that are included on the different page of the digital work.

27. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 25, wherein:

the first view is a page view corresponding to a page of the digital work, and the user input is for navigating to a chapter view in the user interface as the second view, corresponding to a chapter of the digital work;

the listing in the first view of the user interface includes one or more objects, including the selected object, that are included on the page of the digital work, wherein the first view further includes a set of object buttons indicating types of objects present in the first view; and

the listing in the second view of the user interface includes one or more objects that are included in the chapter within which the object was selected, wherein the second view further includes a different set of object buttons indicating types of objects present in the second view.

28. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 25, wherein:

the first view is a page view corresponding to a page of the digital work, and the user input is for navigating to a book view in the user interface as the second view, corresponding to an entirety of the digital work;

the listing in the first view of the user interface includes one or more objects, including the selected object, that are included on the page of the digital work; and

the listing in the second view of the user interface includes the objects that are included in the entirety of the digital work.

29. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 25, wherein:

the first view is a book view corresponding to an entirety of the digital work, and the user input is for navigating to a series view in the user interface as the second view, corresponding to a series of digital works including the digital work;

the listing in the first view of the user interface includes the objects that are included in the entirety of the digital work; and

the listing in the second view of the user interface includes the objects that are included in the series of digital works.