IP Library Patent Application 14575394
Patent Application
App. No. 14/575,394

MULTI-CART CONCURRENT DIGITAL E-BOOK TRANSACTIONS

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App. No.
14/575,394
Abstract

Methods and systems for multi-cart concurrent digital e-Book transactions are provided. A distinct gesture is correlated with each of a plurality of e-book recipients. Determining when the distinct gesture correlated with one of the plurality of e-book recipients is performed on at least one e-book in an e-bookstore. Automatically placing the at least one e-book identified by the distinct gesture correlated with one of the plurality of e-book recipients into a portion of a shopping multi-cart designated for the one of the plurality of e-book recipients.

Claims (45)

1 . A system for multi-cart concurrent digital e-book transactions comprising:

a gesture correlator to correlate a distinct gesture with an e-book recipient wherein there may be a plurality of e-book recipients each with a correlated and different distinct gesture;

a gesture recognition module to recognize an e-book as being designated for the e-book recipient when the distinct gesture correlated with the e-book recipient is performed on the e-book in an e-bookstore; and

an e-book multi-cart module to place the e-book designated for the e-book recipient in a subsection of a shopping multi-cart, said subsection designated as an account for the e-book recipient correlated with the distinct gesture.

2 . The system of claim 1 wherein the distinct gesture is selected from the group consisting of: a letter, a number, a symbol, and a stick figure.

3 . The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a purchase icon on a shopping multi-cart page to provide a purchase capability for a user to purchase the at least one e-book for the e-book recipient.

4 . The system of claim 1 further comprising:

the e-book multi-cart module additionally purchases the e-book and provides the e-book to an e-book library for the e-book recipient correlated with the distinct gesture.

5 . The system of claim 1 wherein the e-book is selected from the group consisting of: an e-novel, an e-magazine, an e-comic book, a PDF, and a scholarly article.

6 . The system of claim 1 wherein the distinct gestures is a user designed gesture.

7 . The system of claim 6 further comprising:

the gesture recognition module to recognize a plurality of e-books as being designated for a plurality of different e-book recipients when a plurality of different distinct gestures are performed on one or more of the plurality of e-books in the e-bookstore; and

the e-book multi-cart module to place each of the plurality of e-books in an appropriate designated e-book recipient subsection of a shopping multi-cart for each e-book recipient as designated by each of the plurality of different distinct gestures.

8 . A computing device comprising:

a memory that stores a set of instructions;

a display screen having touch functionality;

a processor that access the instructions in memory, the processor further configured to implement a method for multi-cart concurrent digital e-Book transactions comprising:

correlating a different distinct gesture with each of a plurality of e-book recipients;

determining when the distinct gesture correlated with one of the plurality of e-book recipients is performed on at least one e-book in an e-bookstore; and

automatically placing the at least one e-book identified by the distinct gesture correlated with one of the plurality of e-book recipients into a portion of a shopping multi-cart designated for the one of the plurality of e-book recipients.

9 . The computing device of claim 8 wherein the distinct gesture is selected from the group consisting of: a letter, a number, a symbol, and a stick figure.

10 . The computing device of claim 8 further comprising:

providing a purchase icon on a shopping multi-cart page to provide a purchase capability for a user to purchase the at least one e-book in the shopping multi-cart.

11 . The computing device of claim 8 further comprising:

automatically purchasing the at least one e-book identified by the distinct gesture and providing the at least one e-book into an e-reader account of the at least one of the plurality of e-book recipients.

12 . The computing device of claim 8 wherein the e-book is selected from the group consisting of: an e-novel, an e-magazine, an e-comic book, a PDF, and a scholarly article.

13 . The computing device of claim 8 further comprising:

receiving a user defined input for the different distinct gesture for each of the plurality of e-book recipients.

14 . The computing device of claim 13 further comprising:

determining that a plurality of distinct gestures correlated with the plurality of e-book recipients has been performed on a plurality of different e-books in the e-bookstore; and

placing each of the plurality of different e-books into an associated e-book recipient subsection of a shopping multi-cart for each e-book recipient as designated by the distinct gesture for each e-book recipient.

15 . A non-transitory computer implemented method for performing multi-cart concurrent digital e-Book transactions, said method comprising:

receiving a user defined input comprising a different distinct gesture for each of a plurality of e-book recipients;

correlating each different distinct gesture with each of the plurality of e-book recipients;

determining when the distinct gesture correlated with one of the plurality of e-book recipients is performed on at least one e-book in an e-bookstore; and

automatically placing the at least one e-book identified by the distinct gesture correlated with one of the plurality of e-book recipients into a portion of a shopping multi-cart designated for the one of the plurality of e-book recipients.

16 . The non-transitory computer implemented method of claim 15 wherein the distinct gesture is selected from the group consisting of: a letter, a number, a symbol, and a stick figure.

17 . The non-transitory computer implemented method of claim 15 wherein the distinct gesture is performed on a portion of the e-book from the group consisting of: a cover, a dust jacket, an introduction page, and a teaser page.

18 . The non-transitory computer implemented method of claim 15 further comprising:

automatically purchasing the at least one e-book identified by the distinct gesture and providing the at least one e-book into an e-reader account of the at least one of the plurality of e-book recipients.

19 . The non-transitory computer implemented method of claim 15 wherein the e-book is selected from the group consisting of: an e-novel, an e-magazine, an e-comic book, a PDF, and a scholarly article.

20 . The non-transitory computer implemented method of claim 15 further comprising:

determining that a plurality of distinct gestures correlated with each of the plurality of different e-book recipients have been performed on a plurality of different e-books in the e-bookstore; and

placing each of the plurality of different e-books into an associated user portion of the shopping multi-cart for each of the plurality of different e-book recipients as designated by each distinct gesture.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 10, 2016
From: KOBO INC.
To: RAKUTEN KOBO INC.
Reel/Frame 037753/0780 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2014
From: GHOSH, VANESSA
To: KOBO INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 034549/0339 →