US 2013/0219262 A1Published application

System and method for information aggregation

AssigneeThird Iron, LLC

InventorsKarl Becker, John Seguin, Kendall Bartsch

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Abstract

A system for electronically reconstituting an issue of an electronic publication to simulate its paper analog. The system includes an application web server programmed to collect metadata related to a plurality of electronic publication. A user's viewing device is programmed to receive table of contents metadata for a plurality of the electronic publication, a plurality of issues of the electronic publication, and a plurality of articles for the issues. An input device on the user's viewing device is provided to identify from the table of contents metadata a selected electronic publication, a selected issue from the selected publication, and a selected article from the selected issue. A digital object identifier resolver is programmed to identify a URL for the selected article. A display device on the user's viewing device displays a full text version of the selected article.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of electronically reconstituting an issue of an electronic publication to simulate its paper analog, the method comprising the steps of:

collecting metadata in an application web server related to a plurality of electronic publication;
transmitting to a user's viewing device table of contents metadata for a plurality of the electronic publication;
identifying from the table of contents metadata a selected electronic publication;
transmitting to a user's viewing device table of contents metadata for a plurality issues associated with the selected electronic publication;
identifying a selected issue from the table of contents metadata for the selected publication;
transmitting to a user's viewing device table of contents metadata for the selected issue;
identifying a selected article from the table of contents metadata for the selected issue;
transmitting a digital object identifier code corresponding to a selected article to a digital object identifier resolver;
receiving at the viewing device a URL for the selected article;
transmitting from the viewing device the URL for the selected article to a location where the selected article is hosted;
transmitting from the viewing device a direct access link to a publisher website requesting delivery of the full text of the selected article;
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displaying a full text version of the selected article on the user's viewing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.