Patent ID: 9229620
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for organizing e-books on a computing device, the method comprising: identifying a collection of e-books that are associated with the computing device, including multiple e-books that are stored in a local memory of the computing device and the local memory of multiple, other computing devices associated with the same account as the computing device; identifying a graphic representation of each e-book in the collection; identifying a user-defined list of e-books from the collection; displaying a library representation of the collection, the library representation including the graphic representation of each e-book in the collection; enabling the user to specify an input that corresponds to the user-defined list; in response to detecting the input, filtering the library representation to include only the e-books that are part of the corresponding user-defined list; archiving a selected e-book from the multiple e-books of the collection by (i) removing the selected e-book from local memory, and (ii) performing archiving functions to archive the selected e-book from the multiple, other computing devices of the user, including to remove the selected e-book from a local memory of each of the multiple, other devices; and for each archived e-book, altering the graphic representation of the e-book in the library representation to indicate that the e-book is archived with respect to that computing device.