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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2006
Brian R Williams, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew J Rubens, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Bibireata, Seattle, WA (US);
Varun Narang, Issaquah, WA (US);
Hilliard B Siegel, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian R Williams, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew J Rubens, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Bibireata, Seattle, WA (US);
Varun Narang, Issaquah, WA (US);
Hilliard B Siegel, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A provider of content may provide access to portions of content from a source, but not the source content in its entirety. In some embodiments, one or more access rules or criteria may be implemented that enable users to access portions of the source content up to an allowed limit or threshold (e.g., number or percentage of pages), after which access is prevented to the remaining content that has not previously been accessed. In other embodiments, one or more access rules or criteria may be implemented that enable users to access portions of content of only a certain type (e.g., index, bibliography, introduction, certain chapters, etc.). Unauthorized portions are suppressed or access to them is denied. The content source may be a textual work, an audio work, or a video work of any form. For example, the content may be in electronic form, such as images of pages of content.