System and method for publishing and displaying digital materials
AssigneeBridgepoint Education
InventorsWesley van Rensburg, Joe Barrus, Elizabeth Aguiar, Erik Evans, Marc Riesenberg
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system for publishing and displaying digital materials, comprising an ePub publishing module comprising a mechanism for publishers to upload ePub files, a user management module providing a means to add, edit and remove end users from the system, a bookshelf module for organizing the user's content in order to create a logical grouping of content, a reading content module for reading content after the user has been mapped to the content, and an annotating content module for annotating user selected text.
Claims18
A system configured to manage annotations made by users to electronic book files, the system comprising:
- one or more physical computer processors configured by computer readable instructions to:
- upload a set of media files and publication requirements by a media publisher for viewing by a user via a publisher interface on the publisher computing platform, the publication requirements specifying a date and time for publication of the set of media files, wherein a content of at least one media file within the set of media files being in an e-book file format (ePub);
- responsive to a current date and time satisfying the date and time for publication as specified by the publication requirements, publish the set of media files by presenting individual media files in a user interface on a user computing platform, wherein the individual media files are grouped based on the content of the at least one media file within the set of media files;
- obtain user selection of a media file from a user viewing the set of media files presented in the user interface on the user computing platform;
- map the user to the user selected media file by associating the user with the user selected media file such that the selected media file is marked as being checked out by the user;
- obtain one or more annotations to the checked-out media file presented within the user interface on the user computing platform, the one or more annotations comprising at least one of a content highlight, a note, and a bookmark entered by the user via a user selected annotation tool;
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- generate an annotation summary comprising the one or more annotations associated with the checked-out media file, wherein annotations within the check-ed out media file may be interacted with by a user command effectuated within the annotation summary;
- wherein the user manages the one or more annotations within the system via the user interface on the user computing platform.
The system of claim 5, wherein the user selected annotation tool is configured to annotate the content of the checked-out media file by adding highlights, notes and bookmarks to the checked-out media file.
The system of claim 7, wherein sharing of the user annotations and comments within the checked-out media file includes making them public by setting.
The system of claim 8, wherein the sharing properties comprise one or more of audience and permissions.
A system configured to manage permissions based on publication ownership of electronic book files, the system comprising:
- one or more physical computer processors configured by computer readable instructions to:
- upload a set of media files, payment requirements, and publication requirements by a media publisher for viewing by a user via a publisher interface on the publisher computing platform, the publication requirements specifying a date and time for publication of the set of media files, wherein a content of at least one media file within the set of media files being in an e-book file format (ePub);
- responsive to a payment satisfying the payment requirements and responsive to a current date and time satisfying the date and time for publication as specified by the publication requirements, publish the set of media files by presenting individual media files in a user interface on a user computing platform, wherein the individual media files are grouped based on the content of the at least one media file within the set of media files;
- obtain user selection of a media file from a user viewing the set of media files presented in the user interface on the user computing platform;
- map the user to the user selected media file by associating the user with the user selected media file such that the selected media file is marked as being checked out by the user;
- obtain user selection of a media file from a user viewing the set of media files presented in the user interface on the user computing platform;
- map the user to the user selected media file by associating the user with the user selected media file such that the selected media file is marked as being checked out by the user;
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- present the checked-out media file in the user interface on the user computing platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.