Patent ID: 7778994
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for realizing an interactive, virtual bookshelf representing physical books and digitally stored books, comprising: (a) receiving, on a computer-based system, a search query to specify a desired book; (b) initiating a search using the search query to locate one or more books corresponding to the search query; (c) producing search metadata corresponding to the desired book; (d) filtering metadata corresponding to the physical books and the digitally stored books with the search metadata to determine whether the desired book is present in a virtual bookshelf, wherein the virtual bookshelf comprises information representing physical books and digitally stored books acquired by and particular to a user, and wherein the metadata includes one or more user-annotatable fields; and (e) outputting results of the filtering step (d) indicative of whether the desired book is present on the virtual bookshelf, whereby the results can be displayed on the interactive, virtual bookshelf.