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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:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Applicants:
Amit D. Agarwal, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Zaur Kambarov, Seattle, WA (US);
Tom Killalea, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Amit D. Agarwal, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Zaur Kambarov, Seattle, WA (US);
Tom Killalea, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01);
Abstract
As described herein, passages in a digital work (e.g., eBook, music, movie, picture, etc.) may be highlighted and questions pertaining to those highlights may be developed. The highlights are collected centrally and subsequently supplied to users along with the digital works. Users may further ask questions pertaining to the highlighted passages, and these questions are associated with the highlights. Answers to the questions may also be discovered and provided to the users.