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US 9,760,859 B1Granted
Automated creation of printed works having customized and/or personalized content
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHilliard B. Siegel, Daniel Rose
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for automatically creating printed works. A subset of electronic publications from a collection of electronic publications is periodically selected in at least one computing system. The selecting is directed at least in part by at least one rule predefined by a user. The subset of electronic publications includes at least two distinct electronic publications. A printed work that includes the subset of electronic publications is encoded for printing.
Claims27
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that is executable in at least one computing device, wherein when executed the program causes the at least one computing device to at least:
- obtain publication selection criteria from a user;
- automatically select a subset of electronic publications from a collection of electronic publications based at least in part on the publication selection criteria and a user-specified maximum aggregate page count for the subset of electronic publications, the subset of electronic publications including at least two distinct electronic publications;
- obtain the subset of electronic publications from at least one external content database via a network;
- generate a user interface that enables the user to manually select an additional electronic publication from the at least one external content database and specify a relative arrangement of the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication once the subset of electronic publications are automatically selected and the additional electronic publication is manually selected;
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- encode for printing a printed work including the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication ordered in the printed work according to the relative arrangement.
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A method, comprising:
- obtaining, by at least one computing device, publication selection criteria from a user;
- automatically selecting, by the at least one computing device, a subset of electronic publications from a collection of electronic publications based at least in part on the publication selection criteria and a user-specified maximum aggregate page count for the subset of electronic publications, the subset of electronic publications including at least two distinct electronic publications;
- obtaining, by the at least one computing device, the subset of electronic publications from at least one external content database via a network;
- generating, by the at least one computing device, a user interface that enables the user to manually select an additional electronic publication from the at least one external content database and specify a relative arrangement of the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication once the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication are selected;
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- encoding for printing, by the at least one computing device, a printed work including the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication ordered in the printed work according to the relative arrangement.
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A system, comprising:
- at least one computing device;
- at least one application that when executed by the at least one computing device causes the at least one computing device to at least:
- obtain publication selection criteria from a user;
- select a subset of electronic publications from a collection of electronic publications based at least in part on the publication selection criteria and a user-specified maximum aggregate page count for the subset of electronic publications, the subset of electronic publications including at least two distinct electronic publications;
- obtain the subset of electronic publications from at least one external content database via a network;
- generate a user interface that enables the user to select an additional electronic publication and specify a relative arrangement of the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication once the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication are selected;
- and
- encode for printing a printed work including the subset of electronic publications and the additional electronic publication ordered in the printed work according to the relative arrangement.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.