Patent ID: 9684645
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating graphical user interfaces showing summary views that facilitate navigation of ebooks, comprising: representing an ebook as a plurality of ebook pages associated with a plurality of segments; receiving a summary view command from a user, the summary view command requesting a particular type of summary view of a predefined set of summary views, each predefined type of summary view having associated predefined page criteria identifying types of ebook pages associated with the type of summary view; identifying one or more ebook pages, of the plurality of ebook pages, having metadata indicating that the ebook pages satisfy the predefined page criteria for the selected summary view; generating page thumbnails for each of the identified one or more ebook pages, wherein the page thumbnail is associated with the same segment as the associated ebook page; grouping the generated page thumbnails by segment, using the plurality of segments; generating a summary view graphical user interface (GUI) for the requested type of summary view using the grouped page thumbnails, the summary view GUI vertically listing one or more segments, of the plurality of segments, and horizontally listing page thumbnails associated with the one or more segments; and displaying the summary view GUI.