US 10,706,213 B2 · System and method for converting the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specific format for electronic publishing

Abstract

A system and method that converts the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specific format for electronic publishing. A “smart file and device-specific application” approach maintains the “look and feel” (design) of the source document used for print publication while typesetting for a specific device. Although this approach requires considerably more resources to create a smart file for each device-specific format, the smart file retains the unique typesetting characteristics of the printed book, is more aesthetically pleasing, and is easier to read. Furthermore, the device-specific application can render the smart file more quickly thereby eliminating any latency.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for electronic publishing of fixed-layout documents to a target device display, comprising:

providing a machine readable binary file template document that is only machine readable, said binary file template configured to provide page dimensions based on the dimensions of a target device display;
using text characteristics including at least one of text size and line-spacing to arrange content including text in the binary file template to be legible and readable when displayed on the target device display;
and
converting the binary file template to one or more output files to fix the arrangement and appearance of the content for display on the target device display, said one or more device display-specific output files containing a description of the page layout needed to display the fixed-layout document on the target device.

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Facts

Application

16/161,866Filed 16 Oct 2018 · continuation

Priority

13 Feb 2009

Published

US 2019/0050377 A114 Feb 2019

Granted

7 Jul 2020

Term ends

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Classification12 codes

G06F 16/9577
Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation: optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
G06F 40/106
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents: display of layout of documents; Previewing
G06F 40/109
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents: font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
G06F 40/14
Use of codes for handling textual entities: tree-structured documents

Family

Application61/152,358Us provisional application · filed 13 Feb 2009

Application12/697,946Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Feb 2010

Application14/462,118Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Aug 2014

US 8,819,541 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Aug 2014

Application15/813,627Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Nov 2017

US 9,846,683 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Dec 2017

US 2019/0050377 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Feb 2019

US 10,133,707 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2010/0211866 A1Published application

US 2018/0081864 A1Published application

US 10,706,213 B2This patent

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System and method for converting the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specific format for electronic publishing

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System and method for converting the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specific format for electronic publishing

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Abstract

Claims19