TWI499916B - The Content Interaction and Exchange Method of Electronic Book - Google Patents

Description

Content interaction and exchange method of e-book

The invention relates to a content interaction and exchange method of an e-book, and achieves the purpose of data sharing by the terminal device interacting and exchanging the content of the e-book through the internet and the cloud servo system.

As the Internet and cloud servo systems become more mature and the use of personal electronic devices becomes more and more popular, the data or information in life can be searched and downloaded by the Internet in the cloud servo system using personal electronic devices. The concept also created the ethos of replacing books on ordinary paper with e-books.

The cloud servo system uses the technology of Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is another big change after the big computer-to-client-server transformation in the 1980s. Users no longer need to know the details of the infrastructure in the "cloud", without having the appropriate expertise or direct control. Cloud computing describes a new Internet-based (Information Technology) service addition, usage, and delivery model that typically provides dynamic, easily scalable, and often virtualized resources over the Internet.

Typical cloud computing providers often provide common network business applications that can be accessed through software such as browsers or other Web services, while software and data are stored on the server. Key elements of cloud computing also include a personalized user experience.

The industry's three levels of cloud computing: cloud software, cloud platform, cloud devices, will be described briefly below.

Upper level: Software as a Service (SaaS)

Breaking the monopoly of big factories in the past, everyone can freely sway ideas to provide a wide range of software services. Participants are software developers around the world.

Middle level: Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Create a program development platform and operating system platform, allowing developers to write programs and services over the Internet, and the average consumer can also execute programs on the platform. Participants are for example Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo!.

Lower Level: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Integrate basic equipment (such as IT systems, databases, etc.) and, like hotels, separate them into different rooms for rent. Participants are for example IBM, Dell, HP, Amazon.

The current general use mode is that the terminal device of the personal electronic device downloads the e-book from the cloud server system through the Internet, or directly accesses and exchanges on the line, and does not process the content of the downloaded e-book. Exchange information for exchange. For example, when a user reads an e-book, he or she can mark and write a reading in a certain chapter. He can only operate in the e-book and leave the information, and cannot upload the data to the cloud servo system. The cloud server system is shared with the public, and it is impossible to exchange reading experiences with the same people in the cloud server system.

The invention provides a content interaction and exchange method of an e-book, wherein when the user reads the e-book, the intermediary material generated by the operation of the e-book is uploaded to the cloud servo system for public sharing to the cloud servo system, and The cloud servo system exchanges reading experience with the same person, and the cloud servo system downloads the intermediary information corresponding to the e-book to the terminal device for the user to view various materials in the intermediary data.

The invention provides a method for interacting and exchanging contents of an e-book, which is operated between an end device and a cloud servo system via an internet, and the method comprises the following steps:

During reading the e-book, an intermediary material of the e-book is generated by the terminal device, and the intermediation data includes information about any actions and operations performed on the content of the e-book;

Transmitting the mediation data of the e-book to the cloud server by the terminal device;

The cloud server system samples and classifies the mediation data of the e-book, and classifies the content of the e-book with any actions and operations and corresponding information, and stores the information in the cloud server;

Inputting, by the terminal device, an international standard book number of the electronic book to the cloud servo system, wherein the cloud server system searches for the content of the electronic book corresponding to the international standard book number and corresponding information to form the intermediary data;

The mediation data is transmitted by the cloud server system to the terminal device.

According to the above method of the present invention, the method further comprises the following steps:

Preloading, downloading from the cloud server system, or accessing the e-book from a storage medium to the terminal device;

A reader is built in or downloaded from the cloud server system to the terminal device, and the e-book is read by the reader and the mediation data is generated.

According to the above method of the present invention, the intermediary material includes an international standard book number of the electronic book, a chapter for reading the electronic book, a reading time point, a length of reading time, a new modified text annotation for the electronic book, and a text content. Make web links, index or bookmarks, add voice messages, images or videos, or attach files.

According to the above method of the present invention, the terminal device is one of a computer, a PDA, a mobile phone, a reader, a media player, and a network television.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the following drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a terminal device and a cloud servo system of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the terminal device 10 may be a computer 20, a mobile phone 22, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) 24, a media player (not shown) or a network television 26 or the like. The cloud server system 12 includes a cloud server 32, a data source 34, a data behavior sampling module 36, a sampling database 38, and the same database 40. The device or device included in the terminal device 10 and the cloud server system 12 of the present embodiment is illustrative and not intended to limit the present invention. Those skilled in the art can apply the known device or device to the terminal device 10 and the cloud server. System 12.

2 is a flow chart of a method for interacting and exchanging contents of an electronic book of the present invention. While explaining the process steps of Figure 2, please refer to the device and device of Figure 1.

In FIG. 2, first, the user logs in to the cloud server system 12 in the terminal device 10 according to the user account, and the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) of the e-book to be downloaded is input in the terminal device 10 via the Internet. Book number) to the cloud servo system 12, or input information such as an e-book name, a publisher, an author, or a classic name to the cloud servo system 12. The cloud servo system 12 searches according to the input name of the e-book, the publisher, the author or the classic famous sentence, and searches for the e-book and the ISBN corresponding to the e-book name, the publisher, the author or the classic famous sentence, and the cloud server. The system 12 makes the searched e-book and its ISBN into a list and transmits the list to the terminal device 10. The user selects an e-book to be browsed in the list by a browser (not shown) of the terminal device 10, and the terminal device 10 transmits the ISBN of the selected e-book to the cloud server system 12 via the Internet. .

The user downloads the e-book from the cloud server system 12 in a paid or free manner, and the cloud server 32 obtains the e-book from the data source 34 (for example, Amazon) according to the ISBN of the e-book and downloads the e-book to the terminal device 10 for the user. The e-book is read by the terminal device 10. As shown in FIG. 3, the terminal device of the present invention downloads an e-book from the cloud servo system. In another case, the user accesses the e-book from a storage medium (such as a flash drive) for storage in the terminal device 10; or preloads the e-book in the terminal device 10, for example, when purchasing the terminal device 10.

Next, a reader (not shown) is downloaded to the cloud servo system 12 to read the e-book on the terminal device 10. During the reading of the e-book, the user generates an intermediary material of the e-book by the reader in any action and operation information on the e-book (step S52). The reader may be built in the terminal device 10.

Meta-data is also known as metadata, metadata, or post-data. The mediation data is data about data, which is mainly information describing the properties of the data, and is used to support functions such as indicating storage location, resource search, and file recording. Intermediary information is an electronic catalogue. In order to achieve the purpose of cataloguing, it is necessary to describe and collect the content or characteristics of the data, and then achieve the purpose of assisting data retrieval.

In this embodiment, the intermediary data includes the international standard book number of the e-book, the chapter of reading the e-book, the reading time point, the length of the reading time, the newly added text annotation to the e-book, the web link, the index, the bookmark, Information such as voice messages, pictures, videos, or attached files.

For example, when a user reads an e-book, the time of reading is in the morning, afternoon or evening, how much time is spent reading the e-book, which chapter of the e-book is read to which chapter, in the e-book Which section of the chapter is added with modified text annotations, web links to text content (ie hyperlinks), indexing or bookmarking, adding voice messages, images or videos, or attached files, all of which are included in the mediation In the information.

When the user wants to share the experience and comments of reading the e-book, the terminal device 10 connects to the cloud servo system 12 via the Internet, and the terminal device 10 transmits the intermediary information of the e-book to the cloud servo system 12 (step S54). FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the terminal device transmitting the intermediary data to the cloud servo system according to the present invention.

The cloud server system 12 samples and classifies the intermediary materials of the e-book, and classifies the content of the e-book with any actions and operations and the corresponding information, and stores them in the cloud servo system 12 (step S56). If different users have stored the content of the e-book and the corresponding information, the cloud servo system 12 performs a procedure of adding or updating the content of the e-book and its corresponding information.

In this embodiment, the cloud server 32 transmits the intermediate data of the e-book received by the terminal device 10 to the data behavior sampling module 36, and the data behavior sampling module 36 samples and classifies the intermediary data. The data is sampled to determine whether the sampled data is the content of the e-book (eg, which chapter of the e-book is read to which chapter, the content of which section of the e-book) or the content of the e-book The operations (such as reading time points, length of reading time, adding text annotations to e-books, linking web pages, indexing, bookmarks, voice messages, pictures, videos, or attached files).

The data behavior sampling module 36 classifies the intermediary data into the content of the electronic book and the information about the operation of the content of the electronic book. The data behavior sampling module 36 transmits and stores the content of the electronic book to the sample database 40, and the data behavior The sampling module 36 transmits and stores the information of the operation of the contents of the electronic book to the sampling database 38. Wherein, when other users upload the intermediary data generated by reading the e-book to the cloud server system 12, the sample database 40 will add or update the content of the e-book in the intermediary material generated by the e-book, and sample the data. The library 38 will add or update information on the operations of the contents of the e-book in the intermediary material generated by the e-book.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the cloud server system of the present invention transmitting intermediate information to a terminal device. In FIG. 5, when the user wants to view other users' readings, notes, or other materials in the same e-book, the user inputs the ISBN of the e-book to the cloud servo system 12, the cloud servo system at the terminal device 10. 12 Find the content of the corresponding e-book of the ISBN and its corresponding information to form the intermediary material (step S58). The user can input information such as an e-book name, a publisher, an author, or a classic name in the terminal device 10, and the browser (not shown) of the terminal device 10 generates a corresponding ISBN according to the information, and inputs the information to the cloud server. System 12.

In this embodiment, the cloud server 32 searches for the content of the e-book corresponding to the ISBN and its corresponding information in the sample database 40 and the sampling database 38 according to the ISBN transmitted by the terminal device 10, and will be in the sample data. The contents of the e-book corresponding to the ISBN and the corresponding information found in the library 40 and the sampling database 38 are transmitted to the cloud server 32 via the data behavior sampling module 36, and the cloud server 32 stores the contents of the e-book. And its corresponding information constitutes intermediary information.

The cloud server 12 transmits the mediation data composed of the content of the electronic book and its corresponding information to the terminal device 10 (step S60), and the user can view the other users reading the same electronic book on the terminal device 10. Various materials in the intermediary information.

The invention provides a method for interacting and exchanging content of an e-book. When the user reads the e-book, the intermediary data generated by the operation of the e-book is uploaded to the cloud servo system for public sharing in the cloud servo system. And in the cloud servo system and the same person exchange reading experience, and in the cloud servo system to download the corresponding information of the e-book to the terminal device, for the user to view the information of the intermediary information.

The present invention has been described above with reference to the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and should not be considered as limiting. Various modifications, omissions and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

10. . . Terminal Equipment

12. . . Cloud servo system

20. . . computer

twenty two. . . mobile phone

twenty four. . . PDA

26. . . Internet TV

32. . . Cloud server

34. . . source

36. . . Data behavior sampling module

38. . . Sampling database

40. . . Sample database

1 is a block diagram of a terminal device and a cloud servo system of the present invention;

2 is a flow chart of a content interaction and exchange method of an e-book according to the present invention;

3 is a schematic diagram of a terminal device of the present invention downloading an e-book from a cloud server system;

4 is a schematic diagram of a terminal device transmitting intermediary information to a cloud servo system according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the cloud server system of the present invention transmitting intermediate information to a terminal device.

Claims (4)

An electronic book content interaction and exchange method, which is operated between an end device and a cloud servo system via an internet, and the method comprises the following steps:
During reading the e-book, an intermediary material of the e-book is generated by the terminal device, and the intermediation data includes information about any actions and operations performed on the content of the e-book;
Transmitting the mediation data of the e-book to the cloud server by the terminal device;
The cloud server system samples and classifies the mediation data of the e-book, and classifies the content of the e-book with any actions and operations and corresponding information, and stores the information in the cloud server;
Inputting, by the terminal device, an international standard book number of the electronic book to the cloud servo system, wherein the cloud server system searches for the content of the electronic book corresponding to the international standard book number and corresponding information to form the intermediary data; The cloud servo system transmits the mediation data to the terminal device. For example, the method of claim 1 of the patent scope further includes the following steps:
Preloading, downloading from the cloud server system, or accessing the e-book from a storage medium to the terminal device; and downloading or downloading a reader from the cloud server system to the terminal device, and reading the device by the reader The e-book generates the intermediary material. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediary material includes an international standard book number of the electronic book, a chapter for reading the electronic book, a reading time point, a length of reading time, and a new modified text annotation for the electronic book, Link web content, index or bookmark text, add voice messages, images or videos, or attach files. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal device is one of a computer, a PDA, a mobile phone, a reader, a media player, and a network television.