Cathy A Gordon

US Patent:

8099660, Jan 17, 2012

Filed:

Sep 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/954008

Inventors:

Joseph K. O'Sullivan - San Francisco CA, US
Cathy Gordon - Cupertino CA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715200, 715201, 715273, 715277, 715741, 715234, 715255

Abstract:

A content management tool can assist publishers/authors in managing access rights and other parameters related to the display of documents online. The documents may include books and other documents that are traditionally published as printed works. The content management tool may display presentation parameters for the documents that relate to how the documents are to be shown to users when accessing the documents. The content management tool receives modifications to the presentation parameters and applies the modified versions of the presentation parameters to future accesses of the documents by users. The content management tool can, for example, be used to modify the portions of the document available for display, turn on/off certain portions of the document, manage links displayed concurrently with the document, and/or manage advertising related to the document.