US 10,311,091 B2Granted

Generation and presentation of an overview of an electronic magazine issue

AssigneeApple Inc.

InventorJames N. Gerlach

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Abstract

As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments herein, content in each of a plurality of electronic magazine issues is communicated as follows. One of the plurality of electronic magazine issues is identified for communication with a magazine reader, such as a user reading magazine issues on an end device (e.g., tablet or other computer). At a user display device, and via a user-communication interface medium, an issue cover having an issue name and a cover image is caused to be displayed for the identified magazine issue, as is a summary or overview of articles for the identified magazine issue. For the latter, the display of the issue cover is autonomously caused to be replaced by a set of successive screen pages respectively corresponding to the articles, with each of the successive screen pages including a feature image and article-characterization text associated with one of the articles.

Claims21

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a first circuit configured and arranged to provide display imagery for articles in a plurality of electronic magazine issues by, for each article,
identifying a feature image and article-characterization text from imagery and text associated with the article, and
generating and outputting article summary imagery that includes the feature image and the article-characterization text;
and
a second circuit configured and arranged to provide overviews of electronic magazine issues to be presented on a remote reader display by, for each electronic magazine issue to be presented on the remote reader display,
causing display of issue cover imagery for the electronic magazine issue on the remote reader display;
and
causing moving display of the article summary imagery for the electronic magazine issue by autonomously causing the display of at least a portion of the issue cover imagery to be replaced by a set of successive screen pages, each successive screen page respectively including the article summary imagery for one of the articles in the electronic magazine issues.

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An apparatus comprising:

a first circuit configured and arranged to provide issue cover imagery and article summary imagery for content from each of a plurality of electronic magazine issues, by
for each electronic magazine issue, obtaining issue cover imagery for representation of the electronic magazine issue, having a cover image and title, and
for articles in the electronic magazine issue, identifying a feature image and article-characterization text from imagery and text associated with the article, and generating and outputting article summary imagery that includes the feature image and the article-characterization text;
a second circuit configured and arranged to provide moving display information for each of the electronic magazine issues, by configuring the issue cover imagery and article summary imagery for moving display of a still image on a remote reader display utilized by a magazine reader;
and
a third circuit including a server, configured and arranged to, for each electronic magazine issue to be presented on the remote reader display, cause moving presentation of the issue cover imagery and article summary imagery at the remote reader display by, via a user-communication interface medium,
causing display of the issue cover imagery on the remote reader display;
and
causing moving display of the article summary imagery by autonomously causing the display of at least a portion of the issue cover imagery to be replaced by a set of successive screen pages, each successive screen page respectively including the article summary imagery for one of the articles.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/934,731Filed 23 Mar 2018 · us provisional application
Priority: 24 Mar 2017
Published: US 2018/0276296 A127 Sep 2018
Granted: 4 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 16/345
Browsing; Visualisation therefor: summarisation for human users
G06F 16/31
Of unstructured textual data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F 16/38
Of unstructured textual data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G06F 16/438
Querying: presentation of query results

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Application62/476,177Us provisional application · filed 24 Mar 2017
US 2018/0276296 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Sep 2018
US 10,311,091 B2This patent

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