Patents Assigned to Inkling Systems, Inc.
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Patent number: 9292151Abstract: A user interface for a mobile computing device includes three distinct display areas, one for presentation of an image and one or more interactive elements, a second for display of a linearly scrollable sequence of content elements, each of which is associated with a corresponding one of the interactive elements, and a third for display of soft keys, each of which corresponds to a respective one of the interactive elements. The soft keys and the interactive elements are responsive to user input so as to cause the image displayed in the first display area to feature prominently a portion thereof corresponding to the interactive element associated with the user input and the content element displayed within the second display area to be that associated with the same interactive element.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chatree Campiranon, Peter S. Cho, Emily Ann Short, Jeffrey Robert Wear
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Patent number: 9280905Abstract: Disclosed is a method for presenting an interactive media presentation, the method including presenting media section descriptions with a selectable time code and a description; presenting a media controller and including a displayed time line with one or more selectable time points; upon playing a media item, advancing a time indicator along the time line in accordance with a playback position of the media item and featuring the media section description corresponding to the playback position in the media item.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chatree Campiranon, Joshua John Forman, Aaron Eliezer Golden, Aaron Haney, Andrew C. Hoyer, Scott William Kyle, Marie Dalby Szuts
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Patent number: 9098407Abstract: A method for use with an electronic reading device comprising automatically fetching electronic media content and automatically and dynamically sequencing portions of the electronic media content for display on an electronic reading device. Optionally, the electronic media content can be automatically and dynamically divided into the portions that are then sequenced. Optionally, the electronic media content can be re-sequenced to reflect user preferences and needs. Various methods for recognizing and altering the display of the electronic reading device quickly and efficiently are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter Cho, Charles M. MacInnis, Robert Cromwell, Joshua Forman, Anne Halsall, Jonathan Wight, Kevin Ballard
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Patent number: 9043942Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating limited access to paid-access or registration-required content items. In one example, a server responds to a request for access to a restricted access content item (e.g., from a Web browser) by first determining whether a user associated with the request is already authorized to access the content item. If the user is so authorized, the user is allowed access to the content item. If the user is not already authorized, the server provides the user a limited preview of the content item. The limited preview is subject to preview rules associated with one or more of: a referral path by which the user (i.e., the browser) was directed to the content item, the content item itself, and previous accesses or access attempts by the user to the content item and other content items, access to which other content items is controlled by the server.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Ned Todd Birdwell Rockson, Emily Ann Short, Joshua John Forman
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Patent number: 8977978Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for creating and presenting an outline view, the outline view including a first user navigable graphical panel, the first panel displaying first organizational elements corresponding to a first outline level of an electronic content work; a second user navigable graphical panel, the second panel displaying one or more child organizational elements of a selected first organizational element, the child organizational elements corresponding to a second outline level of the electronic content work; and one or more content previews of content within the electronic content work in the first or second panel, the content previews corresponding to the first or second outline levels of the electronic content work, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter S. Cho, Anne K. Halsall, Aaron Haney, Robert Benjamin Scott, Jonathan Wight, Robert Cromwell, Charles M. MacInnis, Joshua John Forman
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Patent number: 8910036Abstract: In a method and a system for an Internet copy protection method, a source document markup file is partitioned into a plurality of subsets of text, one or more graphical representations of at least some of the plurality of subsets are created and those subsets of text in the source document are processed to create a transformed document, location information is also generated, which identifies a position in the transformed documents that is equivalent to the position of the textual content which corresponds to the graphical representation in the source document. The transformed document, graphical representations, and location information may then be transmitted over a network to a client device.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Cromwell, Andrew C. Hoyer, Ryan P. Teuscher
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Patent number: 8799765Abstract: In one embodiment, a user of a first portable digital computing device creates an annotation associated with a particular reading location within a reference document. The annotation and the reading location are shared with a second portable digital computing device storing a copy of the reference document. Using the shared information, the second device displays the reference document with the annotation shown at the reading location.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. MacInnis, Joshua John Forman, Anne K Halsall, Scott William Kyle, Robert Cromwell, Kevin Ballard, Peter S. Cho
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Patent number: 8799493Abstract: A system and method of social interaction includes receiving interaction information for an interaction created by a first user of an electronic content work, the interaction information comprising an identification number of a portion of the electronic content work associated with the interaction. The system and method includes storing the received interaction information. The system and method also includes receiving a request from a second user requesting interaction information for a requested portion of the electronic content work. the system and method also includes sending the received interaction information in response to determining that the identification number associated with the received interaction information matches the identification in the request for interaction information.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. MacInnis, Robert Cromwell, Joshua John Forman, Kenneth Lorenz Knowles, Peter S. Cho, Chatree Campiranon, Aaron Haney, Kevin Ballard, Scott William Kyle, Anne K. Halsall, Jonathan Wight
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING CROSS-PLATFORM INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC WORKS
Publication number: 20130179761Abstract: Systems and methods for creating, editing and publishing cross-platform interactive digital content works include a content management component configured to store portions of a digital content work and to implement version control of the digital content work; a defect tracking component configured to store a defect record related to a stored portion of the digital content work; a publication pipeline component configured to format the digital content work for publication; and a integration component configured to present a graphical user interface which allows for editing the stored portions of the digital content work, editing the defect record, and instructing the publication pipeline to format the digital content work for publication.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: INKLING SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Inkling Systems, Inc. -
Publication number: 20130151974Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for creating and presenting an outline view, the outline view including a first user navigable graphical panel, the first panel displaying first organizational elements corresponding to a first outline level of an electronic content work; a second user navigable graphical panel, the second panel displaying one or more child organizational elements of a selected first organizational element, the child organizational elements corresponding to a second outline level of the electronic content work; and one or more content previews of content within the electronic content work in the first or second panel, the content previews corresponding to the first or second outline levels of the electronic content work, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter S. Cho, Anne K. Halsall, Aaron Haney, Robert Scott, Robert Cromwell, Charles M. Maclnnis, Joshua John Forman
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Publication number: 20130150990Abstract: Disclosed is a method for presenting an interactive media presentation, the method including presenting media section descriptions with a selectable time code and a description; presenting a media controller and including a displayed time line with one or more selectable time points; upon playing a media item, advancing a time indicator along the time line in accordance with a playback position of the media item and featuring the media section description corresponding to the playback position in the media item.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chatree Campiranon, Joshua John Forman, Aaron Eliezer Golden, Aaron Haney, Andrew C. Hoyer, Scott William Kyle, Marie Dalby Szuts
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Patent number: 8370341Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for updating content are presented. A first version of content residing on a user device is determined, and a second version of content relating to the first version of content is determined. Version information for each file within a second set of files organized within a second archive of the second version of content is sequentially accessed based on a second order of the second set of files in the second archive, the version information indicating a version of each file. A determination is made of when version information indicating a newer version of content has been accessed from the second archive, and new content associated with the newer version is provided to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Cromwell, Robert Benjamin Scott, Aaron Haney, Kenneth Lorenz Knowles, Nolan Shea Myers, Arthur Kopatsy, Joshua John Forman
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Publication number: 20130019028Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods and machine readable media for the management of content creation. In some examples the system includes a content management component configured to store portions of an electronic content work and to implement version control of the electronic content work; a defect tracking component configured to store a defect record related to a stored portion of the electronic content work; a publication pipeline component configured to format the electronic content work for publication; and a integration component configured to present a graphical user interface which allows for editing the stored portions of the electronic content work, editing the defect record, and instructing the publication pipeline to format the electronic content work for publication.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Nolan Shea Myers, Robert Benjamin Scott, Bradley Keith Neuberg, Huan Zhao, Robert Cromwell, Arthur Kopatsy, Bradford Vogel, Kerryck Jones, Kenneth Lorenz Knowles, Joshua John Forman
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Patent number: D681655Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter S. Cho, Anne K. Halsall
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Patent number: D701223Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventor: Peter S. Cho
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Patent number: D701237Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventor: Peter S. Cho
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Patent number: D701240Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chatree Campiranon, Peter S. Cho
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Patent number: D701519Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chatree Campiranon, Peter S. Cho
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Patent number: D711392Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chatree Campiranon, Peter S. Cho
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Patent number: D711393Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chatree Campiranon, Peter S. Cho