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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2007
John Lattyak, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael V. Rykov, Seattle, WA (US);
Girish Bansilal Bajaj, Bellevue, WA (US);
James C. Slezak, Seattle, WA (US);
Aviram Zagorie, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Moore, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin R. Cheung, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas M. J. Fruchterman, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert L. Goodwin, Mercer Island, WA (US);
John Lattyak, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael V. Rykov, Seattle, WA (US);
Girish Bansilal Bajaj, Bellevue, WA (US);
James C. Slezak, Seattle, WA (US);
Aviram Zagorie, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Moore, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin R. Cheung, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas M. J. Fruchterman, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert L. Goodwin, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Amazon.com Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An item-providing system supplies items to a user device for consumption at the user device via communication infrastructure. The device may correspond to a book reader device or other type of device. In one illustrative case, the item-providing system may provide items to the user device in incremental form or in full form. The item-providing system and user device implement a protocol for determining whether the content should be delivered in incremental form or full form.