PROVIDING REFERENCE WORK ENTRIES ON TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAYS

Patent №

US 8,773,389

Granted

2014-07-08

Filed 2013

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

2

nlp · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13927456

Techniques are provided for outputting entries from supplemental content (e.g., such as reference works) based on an amount of force applied to a touch-sensitive display of a device. For example, a user reading an electronic book (eBook) on a device having a touch-sensitive display may select a word or a phrase within the eBook by touching the display at a location of the word or the phrase. The techniques may determine one or more entries from the supplemental content to output based on a measured amount of force of the selection. To illustrate, the device may output a dictionary definition of the selected word in response to measuring a first amount of force or output a thesaurus entry for the word in response to measuring a second amount of force.

Natural languageAI hardwareG06F 3/0488G06F 3/011G06F 3/041G06F 3/04842G06F 2203/04105G06F 2203/04808

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware1.00
Machine learning0.08
Knowledge representation0.07
Planning0.04
Speech0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 329240312

Assignors

FREED, IAN W.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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