IP Library Granted Patent US 12,436,665
Granted Patent B2
US 12,436,665 · App. 17/817,392 · Granted Oct 7, 2025

Digital story generation

Inventors: Eric Dennis Howell (St. Paul, MN); Wiliam Daniel Schultz (Plymouth, MN)
Assignee: StoryForge LLC
G06F3/0483G06F3/0482H04N21/80
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,436,665
App. No.
17/817,392
Granted
Oct 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A digital story includes textual, visual, and/or audio aspects. Generation of a new digital story and/or editing of an existing digital story can include, for instance, coordinating presentation of textual, visual, and/or audio aspects of the digital story. A digital story can be viewed and/or accessed by a user remote from one or more authors of the digital story.

Claims (28)

1. A digital story editing system, comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the digital story editing system to:

receive a digital story;

display an author control module programmed to control collaboration of the digital story, wherein the author control module includes a displayed text module programmed to control collaboration associated with text of the digital story, wherein the displayed text module is configured for more than one collaborator to edit the text of the digital story using artificial intelligence, wherein the more than one collaborator includes a viewer who is accessing the digital story, wherein the artificial intelligence is trained to identify terms in the text of the digital story as call-out content;

select the call-out content to display one or more actions associated with the terms;

activate the displayed one or more actions, the one or more actions including:

a geo-enable action that modifies the call-out content based upon a geographic location of the viewer; and

a modify-enable action that allows the call-out content to be modified based on a stored user preference associated with the viewer; and

produce a collaborated digital story with input by the more than one collaborator.

2. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein the author control module includes:

a submissions toggle programmed to select whether the digital story will be available for collaboration;

a character module programmed to select whether characters in the digital story are available for collaboration;

a character preview module programmed to preview text associated with a character in the digital story; and

an experience level module programmed to select a level of experience required for a collaborator to collaborate on the digital story.

3. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein the author control module includes an audio module, wherein the audio module is programmed to:

select a collaborator to contribute audio to the digital story; and

restrict certain sounds, music, and audio files.

4. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein the author control module includes an illustration module, wherein the illustration module is programmed to:

configure collaboration associated with illustration or graphics in the digital story;

illustrate at least a portion of the digital story; and

select restrictions related to illustrations provided by a collaborator.

5. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein the author control module includes a notification module configured to provide the more than one collaborator a notification regarding a status of a collaborator's content.

6. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein revisions by the more than one collaborator of the digital story are tracked to verify which collaborator made each revision.

7. The digital story editing system of claim 6 , wherein the digital story editing system is configured to calculate royalties among all or a portion of the the more than one collaborator to the digital story based on a level of collaboration provided to the digital story.

8. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein the memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the digital story editing system to provide a submissions review module, wherein the submissions review module is configured to: control collaboration of the digital story; and provide collaborator detail that shows at least one of: experience of collaborator, collaborator rank, and collaborator submissions count.

9. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein the memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the digital story editing system to provide a live read module, wherein the live read module is configured to permit a live reading of the digital story by more than one user.

10. The digital story editing system of claim 1 , wherein the collaborated digital story is made into a non-fungible token.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 4, 2022
From: HOWELL, ERIC DENNIS; SCHULTZ, WILLIAM DANIEL
To: STORYFORGE LLC
Reel/Frame 060717/0675 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63203916 · Aug 4, 2021
Related Publication 20230038412A1 · Feb 9, 2023
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