Digital Content Excerpt Identification via Timeline Navigation
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Users of digital content, such as eBooks, videos, and songs, seek enhanced consumption experiences as the volume of digital works and devices increases, but existing technologies lack effective methods to highlight key excerpts and relate them across different content types and devices.
Innovation Solution
A device and method for displaying digital content that ranks and presents key excerpts based on user interactions and reviews, allowing navigation through a timeline and related excerpts across multiple subjects, including those from other books, using a scrollable card format and emphasizing entities within the content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If digital content volume and device variety increase, then content availability improves, but user experience enhancement becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments digital content into discrete, navigable excerpts represented as cards with timeline markers. This segmentation allows users to interact with specific content portions rather than navigating through entire works, making content management easier despite increasing volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary timeline that connects excerpts across multiple digital works. This timeline acts as a mediator between users and the growing content library, providing a unified navigation interface that simplifies access regardless of content volume or device variety.
2Loss of information
If key excerpts are highlighted across multiple subjects and devices, then content discovery improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal timeline interface that functions across multiple subjects (different digital works, content types, and devices). This single interface structure handles diverse content uniformly, reducing system complexity while improving content discovery across the entire digital library.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension through the timeline interface, organizing excerpts not just by content type or device but by their position in a unified chronological sequence. This additional organizational dimension simplifies navigation across complex multi-device content collections.
3Ease of operation
If personalized interactive access to key content is provided, then user engagement improves, but processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-identifying and marking key excerpts within digital works before user interaction. These pre-processed excerpts are then easily accessible through the timeline interface, reducing real-time processing requirements while maintaining high user engagement through personalized access.
Data Source
AI summary
Described herein are techniques for identifying and displaying key excerpts of a digital work and related key excerpts of other digital works. Key excerpts are identified by evaluating (a) the number of interactions by human readers within each of the key excerpts and (b) the number of reviews that reference each of the key excerpts. Related excerpts from other books can be identified by comparing the key excerpts of the other books. Excerpts can be displayed by subject, and links are provided to move from one subject to another.