Heather M Walters

US Patent:

20230014899, Jan 19, 2023

Filed:

Jun 24, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/848721

Inventors:

Heather Rose Walters - Salem OR, US

International Classification:

G06F 16/93
G06F 16/951
G06F 40/166
G06F 3/04842

Abstract:

A platform to provide content to reader users and to gather content from writer users. The platform provides user interfaces to reader users displaying one or more titles accessible by the reader user, receives a user content input through the user interface identifying selection of a title, presents a first content block from the title to the reader user one or more buttons to indicate alternative storylines in the titles, and repeats until a final content block is accessed: receiving a button selection from the reader user through the user interface; and loading a next content block indicated by the button selection. The platform provides a title user interface to a writer user for a new title, receives title information for the new title, presents a writing user interface to the writer user, and repeats, until the receiving an input from the writer user indicating completion: receiving one or more user inputs containing a content block from the writer user through the user interface and text labels for one or more buttons associated with the content block; and generating tracking lines linking the content block to the buttons. The platform then associates the content blocks, buttons and tracking lines with the title and stores them in a database when the writer user indicates completion.