# US 11,907,639 B2 · Electronic publishing platform > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,907,639 B2 - Document ID: US11907639B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/178,861 - Filed: 2023-03-06 - Published: 2023-09-07 - Granted: 2024-02-20 - Earliest claimed: 2020-04-30 - Assignees: 21 Entertainment LLC - Applicants: 21 Entertainment LLC - Inventors: Mario C. Smith - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11907639B2 ## CPC - G06F 40/106: Display of layout of documents; Previewing - G06F 3/0483: Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor - G06F 40/166: Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting - G06F 40/186: Templates - G06Q 30/0275: {Auctions} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract Disclosed herein is a web user experience improvement for digital magazines. A digital magazine viewing platform is integrated with a digital magazine publishing platform including features that leverage the integration including user interface arrangement based on viewing habits and ripped content that is insertable into draft digital magazine documents. In some embodiments, a machine learning model categorizes magazine styles and present publishing features based on those magazines viewed or subscribed to by a given user. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: generating an integrated digital magazine platform that incorporates a magazine publisher and a magazine viewer on a single web browser instance, the integrated digital magazine platform configured to display a user interface of integrated content, wherein the integrated content includes preferred digital layouts and customized control on the magazine publisher, or a control that modifies a digital layout design control of the magazine publisher based on user experience on the magazine viewer; enabling a user to design a digital layout of digital magazine documents on the integrated digital magazine platform using the integrated content; and publishing a digital magazine document generated with the user-designed digital layout. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rip control that enables the user to make a copy of a page of a first digital magazine document that was viewed on the magazine viewer and subsequently insert that page into a draft digital magazine document via the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rip control that enables the user to make a copy of a content item positioned on a first page of a first digital magazine document that was viewed on the magazine viewer and subsequently insert that content item into a draft digital magazine document via the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rearrangement of plurality of preferred digital layouts based on a viewing history of the user on the magazine viewer of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein a page of the digital magazine document is designated as ad space in the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform, the method further comprising: inserting content into the ad space via the magazine viewer using an ad-hoc Internet content auction influenced by a current viewing user's Internet history. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the digital magazine document includes a plurality of flippable pages including content, and wherein the integrated digital magazine platform includes interface controls that cause partial shifts between the flippable pages of a first digital magazine document via partial cursor dragging. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a subscription control that enables the user to subscribe to another user's digital magazine documents, the subscription control rearranges the preferred digital layouts based on those digital layouts that were used in the digital magazine publishing platform to create the other user's digital magazine documents. ### Claim 8 A system comprising: a processor; a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: generating an integrated digital magazine platform that incorporates a magazine publisher and a magazine viewer on a single web browser instance, the integrated digital magazine platform configured to display a user interface of integrated content, wherein the integrated content includes preferred digital layouts and customized control on the magazine publisher, or a control that modifies a digital layout design control of the magazine publisher based on user experience on the magazine viewer; enabling a user to design a digital layout of digital magazine documents on the integrated digital magazine platform using the integrated content; and publishing a digital magazine document generated with the user-designed digital layout. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rip control that enables the user to make a copy of a page of a first digital magazine document that was viewed on the magazine viewer and subsequently insert that page into a draft digital magazine document via the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rip control that enables the user to make a copy of a content item positioned on a first page of a first digital magazine document that was viewed on the magazine viewer and subsequently insert that content item into a draft digital magazine document via the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rearrangement of plurality of preferred digital layouts based on a viewing history of the user on the magazine viewer of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein a page of the digital magazine document is designated as ad space in the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform, the instructions further comprising: inserting content into the ad space via the magazine viewer using an ad-hoc Internet content auction influenced by a current viewing user's Internet history. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the digital magazine document includes a plurality of flippable pages including content, and wherein the integrated digital magazine platform includes interface controls that cause partial shifts between the flippable pages of a first digital magazine document via partial cursor dragging. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a subscription control that enables the user to subscribe to another user's digital magazine documents, the subscription control rearranges the preferred digital layouts based on those digital layouts that were used in the digital magazine publishing platform to create the other user's digital magazine documents. ### Claim 15 A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying instructions, which, when executed by at least one processor, cause a system to: generating an integrated digital magazine platform that incorporates a magazine publisher and a magazine viewer on a single web browser instance, the integrated digital magazine platform configured to display a user interface of integrated content, wherein the integrated content includes preferred digital layouts and customized control on the magazine publisher, or a control that modifies a digital layout design control of the magazine publisher based on user experience on the magazine viewer; enabling a user to design a digital layout of digital magazine documents on the integrated digital magazine platform using the integrated content; and publishing a digital magazine document generated with the user-designed digital layout. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rip control that enables the user to make a copy of a page of a first digital magazine document that was viewed on the magazine viewer and subsequently insert that page into a draft digital magazine document via the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rip control that enables the user to make a copy of a content item positioned on a first page of a first digital magazine document that was viewed on the magazine viewer and subsequently insert that content item into a draft digital magazine document via the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the control that modifies the digital layout design control is a rearrangement of plurality of preferred digital layouts based on a viewing history of the user on the magazine viewer of the integrated digital magazine platform. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein a page of the digital magazine document is designated as ad space in the magazine publisher of the integrated digital magazine platform, the instructions further comprising: inserting content into the ad space via the magazine viewer using an ad-hoc Internet content auction influenced by a current viewing user's Internet history. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the digital magazine document includes a plurality of flippable pages including content, and wherein the integrated digital magazine platform includes interface controls that cause partial shifts between the flippable pages of a first digital magazine document via partial cursor dragging.