公开(公告)号：US07933839B2

公开(公告)日：2011-04-26

申请号：US11039645

申请日：2005-01-19

申请人： Hilliard B Siegel ,  Udi Manber ,  Jonathan Leblang

发明人： Hilliard B Siegel ,  Udi Manber ,  Jonathan Leblang

IPC分类号： G06F21/00

摘要： Methods and systems for receiving and distributing annotations of a digital work include receiving an annotation of the digital work, storing the annotation, and providing the annotation to a user. The user may be required to submit a valid authorization credential for the annotation. Annotations may be textual or graphical, and may be associated with particular content in a digital work. Indicators may be displayed to identify content in the digital work for which annotations are available. A user may exchange compensation or perform a specified action for access to an annotation. Some or all of the compensation received for an annotation may be distributed to the author of the annotation. Multiple annotations may be listed in an order based a criterion, such as ranking, price, or date of receipt. Users that purchase a digital work may automatically receive an authorization credential to receive annotations of the digital work.

公开(公告)号：US08131647B2

公开(公告)日：2012-03-06

申请号：US11039645

申请日：2005-01-19

申请人： Hilliard B Siegel ,  Udi Manber ,  Jonathan Leblang

发明人： Hilliard B Siegel ,  Udi Manber ,  Jonathan Leblang

IPC分类号： G06F21/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30038 ,  G06F17/30884 ,  G06Q20/382 ,  G06Q30/0601

摘要： Methods and systems for receiving and distributing annotations of a digital work include receiving an annotation of the digital work, storing the annotation, and providing the annotation to a user. The user may be required to submit a valid authorization credential for the annotation. Annotations may be textual or graphical, and may be associated with particular content in a digital work. Indicators may be displayed to identify content in the digital work for which annotations are available. A user may exchange compensation or perform a specified action for access to an annotation. Some or all of the compensation received for an annotation may be distributed to the author of the annotation. Multiple annotations may be listed in an order based a criterion, such as ranking, price, or date of receipt. Users that purchase a digital work may automatically receive an authorization credential to receive annotations of the digital work.

摘要翻译： 用于接收和分发数字作品注释的方法和系统包括接收数字作品的注释，存储注释以及向用户提供注释。 用户可能需要为注释提交有效的授权凭证。 注释可以是文字或图形，并且可以与数字作品中的特定内容相关联。 可以显示指示符以识别可用于注释的数字作品中的内容。 用户可以交换补偿或执行指定的操作来访问注释。 为注释收到的部分或全部补偿可能会分发给注释的作者。 多个注释可以基于诸如排名，价格或接收日期的标准在订单中列出。 购买数字作品的用户可能会自动收到授权凭证以接收数字作品的注释。

公开(公告)号：US08725573B1

公开(公告)日：2014-05-13

申请号：US11127688

申请日：2005-05-11

申请人： Varun Narang ,  Udi Manber ,  Hilliard B Siegel ,  Jeffrey P Bezos

发明人： Varun Narang ,  Udi Manber ,  Hilliard B Siegel ,  Jeffrey P Bezos

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0601 ,  G06Q10/10

摘要： A system and method for creating and maintaining a virtual library is provided. A virtual library includes one or more photographic images of the user's physical library, and an inventory of the products revealed in those images. The virtual librarian facilitates uploading the images, generating an inventory from those images, and locating products in the physical library with reference to the images. The virtual librarian optionally provides the user with an appraisal of the value of their physical library, and advice regarding how to organize the library and whether to make certain acquisitions to complement the existing library.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于创建和维护虚拟库的系统和方法。 虚拟图书馆包括用户物理图书馆的一个或多个摄影图像，以及这些图像中显示的产品的库存。 虚拟图书馆员便利上传图像，从这些图像生成库存，并参考图像将产品定位在物理库中。 虚拟图书馆员可以选择性地向用户提供物理图书馆价值的评估，以及如何组织图书馆以及是否对某些收购进行补充以补充现有图书馆的建议。

公开(公告)号：US08438084B1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-07

申请号：US10864291

申请日：2004-06-09

申请人： Lawrence Tesler ,  Udi Manber ,  Hilliard B Siegel ,  Charles Gordon ,  Varun Narang

发明人： Lawrence Tesler ,  Udi Manber ,  Hilliard B Siegel ,  Charles Gordon ,  Varun Narang

IPC分类号： A01K5/02 ,  G06F13/38

CPC分类号： G06Q10/087

摘要： Verification of an inventory of stored products may be achieved by obtaining an image of the stored products and using text, optical character, and other feature recognition techniques to determine product identification and storage location. A comparison between earlier and current images of the same storage location is used to identify which locations have changed, i.e., from which locations have products been moved, removed, or added. The earlier and current images of the changed locations may be displayed to a user to visually inspect the differences between the images and verify the changes in inventory represented by those differences.

摘要翻译： 可以通过获得存储的产品的图像并使用文本，光学特征和其他特征识别技术来确定产品识别和存储位置来实现存储产品的库存的验证。 使用相同存储位置的早期和当前图像之间的比较来识别哪些位置已经改变，即哪些位置具有产品被移动，移除或添加。 更改的位置的较早和当前图像可以被显示给用户以目视检查图像之间的差异并验证由这些差异表示的库存中的变化。

公开(公告)号：US08150864B2

公开(公告)日：2012-04-03

申请号：US11392245

申请日：2006-03-29

申请人： Brian R Williams ,  Matthew J Rubens ,  Daniel Bibireata ,  Varun Narang ,  Hilliard B Siegel

发明人： Brian R Williams ,  Matthew J Rubens ,  Daniel Bibireata ,  Varun Narang ,  Hilliard B Siegel

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  G06F17/30011 ,  G06F17/30253 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  Y10S707/99931 ,  Y10S707/99943 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： A provider of content may provide access to portions of content from a source, but not the source content in its entirety. In some embodiments, one or more access rules or criteria may be implemented that enable users to access portions of the source content up to an allowed limit or threshold (e.g., number or percentage of pages), after which access is prevented to the remaining content that has not previously been accessed. In other embodiments, one or more access rules or criteria may be implemented that enable users to access portions of content of only a certain type (e.g., index, bibliography, introduction, certain chapters, etc.). Unauthorized portions are suppressed or access to them is denied. The content source may be a textual work, an audio work, or a video work of any form. For example, the content may be in electronic form, such as images of pages of content.

摘要翻译： 内容提供商可以提供来自源的部分内容的访问，而不是完整的来源内容。 在一些实施例中，可以实现一个或多个访问规则或标准，其使得用户能够访问源内容的部分直到允许的限制或阈值（例如，页面的数量或百分比），之后阻止对剩余内容的访问 以前没有被访问过。 在其他实施例中，可以实现一个或多个访问规则或标准，其使得用户仅访问某些类型的内容的部分（例如，索引，参考书目，介绍，某些章节等）。 未经授权的部分被禁止，否则他们的访问被拒绝。 内容源可以是文本作品，音频作品或任何形式的视频作品。 例如，内容可以是电子形式，例如内容页面的图像。

公开(公告)号：US07802200B1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-21

申请号：US11391813

申请日：2006-03-29

申请人： Hilliard B Siegel ,  Jeffrey P Bezos

发明人： Hilliard B Siegel ,  Jeffrey P Bezos

IPC分类号： G06F3/048 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0633

摘要： A computer system and method for detecting conditions resulting in an inconsistency and/or an increased likelihood of a return is presented. The computer system comprises an evaluation component and a notification component. The evaluation component is configured to evaluate an item selected for purchase by a consumer to determine whether the consumer's purchase of the selected item represents an inconsistency and/or an increased likelihood of user dissatisfaction. The notification component is configured to notify the consumer if and when the consumer's selection of an item represents an inconsistency and/or an increased likelihood of user dissatisfaction.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于检测导致不一致性和/或增加的返回可能性的条件的计算机系统和方法。 计算机系统包括评估组件和通知组件。 评估组件被配置为评估由消费者选择购买的项目以确定消费者对所选项目的购买是否表示用户不满意的不一致和/或增加的可能性。 通知组件被配置为通知消费者消费者对项目的选择是否表示不一致和/或增加的用户不满意的可能性。

公开(公告)号：US08631012B2

公开(公告)日：2014-01-14

申请号：US11540115

申请日：2006-09-29

申请人： Jonathan A Leblang ,  Hilliard B Siegel

发明人： Jonathan A Leblang ,  Hilliard B Siegel

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30265 ,  G06F17/30864

摘要： A method and system are disclosed that associate search keywords with relevant images from within sources, such as books, magazines, journals, etc., thereby making the images available for search using the associated keyword. Such associations enable a search engine to identify, in response to a search query, a relevant image within the source that would have not been provided otherwise. For example, an image of the Titanic that appears in a historical or cultural book may be associated with the search keyword “ship.” Accordingly, if a user submits the search query “ship and Infamous Ocean Voyages” (i.e., the keyword “ship” and the title of a book), an image of the Titanic from the book entitled “Infamous Ocean Voyages” may be returned among the search results.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种方法和系统，其将搜索关键词与源（例如书籍，杂志，期刊等）中的相关图像相关联，从而使图像可用于使用关联关键词进行搜索。 这样的关联使得搜索引擎可以响应于搜索查询来识别源中未被另外提供的相关图像。 例如，出现在历史或文化书籍中的泰坦尼克号的图像可能与搜索关键字“船”相关联。 因此，如果用户提交搜索查询“船舶和臭名昭着的海洋航行”（即关键字“船”和书名称），则可以从题为“臭名昭着的海洋航行”的书中的“泰坦尼克号”图像返回 搜索结果。