Electronic reading position management for printed content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8959345-B2
Application number	US-201213662321-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2012
Priority date	Oct 26, 2012
Publication date	Feb 17, 2015
Grant date	Feb 17, 2015

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device for managing content consumption, the device comprising:
an image sensor configured to record images;
a data store configured to store computer-executable instructions; and
a processor in communication with the data store and the image sensor, wherein the processor, when executing the computer-executable instructions, is configured to at least:
receive, from a user of the device, an instruction to record an image of a book identifier located on…

Assignees

• Audible Inc

Inventors

• Hwang Douglas C

Classifications

• H04N1/00331

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F15/0291 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N1/00795 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N2201/0084

  Electricity · mapped topic