Printed book publishing system and management method for printed book publishing

• US 20040205636A1
• Filed: 06/07/2002
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Kinoshita, Akira, Kasahara, Seitarou, Matsubara, Akitoshi, Atarashi, Yuichi, Li, Alex Xuyang, Kawada, Keizo, Guan, Xiang Hong, Motohashi, Mitsuo, Kamei, Masahiko, Shimonaka, Michiyo
• Granted Patent: US 7,210,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/526
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/17 Web printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

Printed book publishing system and method, for loading down data on a network according to a request from a terminal and for outputting the loaded data for publishing the printed book, comprising a management server which performs making a data server storing book contents data send the book contents data according to a request from the terminal; wherein the book contents data is converted to image data for viewing and the image data for viewing is sent to the terminal.

Claims

1. A printed book publishing system for loading down data on a network according to a request from a terminal and for outputting the loaded data for publishing the printed book, comprising a management server which performs making a data server storing book contents data send the book contents data according to a request from the terminal;

wherein the book contents data is converted to image data for viewing and the image data for viewing is sent to the terminal.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the management server makes the terminal display the image data for viewing.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises an operating unit and a display unit.

4. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the terminal displays the image data for viewing on the display unit.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the management server converts the book contents data to data for printing, and sends the converted data for printing to an image forming apparatus.

6. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the management server converts the book contents data to data for printing which are in place in a predetermined paper size.

7. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the management server makes the image forming apparatus form an image of the data for printing.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the image forming apparatus forms an image on the basis of the data for printing, not image data for viewing.

9. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the management server converts the book contents data so that a data format of the image data for viewing which are sent to the terminal is different from that of the data for printing which are sent to the image forming apparatus.

10. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the book contents data include at least text data, and the image data for viewing have a data format which allows the terminal to display the image data without converting the data format of the terminal, and the data for printing have a data format which allows the image forming apparatus to form an image.

11. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the management server performs:

obtaining the book contents data from the data server in response to a viewing request from the terminal, converting the obtained book contents data to image data for viewing, and then sending the image data for viewing to the terminal; and

converting the book contents data to data for printing in response to a printing request from the terminal, and sending data for printing to the image forming apparatus.

12. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the data for printing have a data format of PDF or PostScript.

13. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the terminal and the image forming apparatus are installed in a store.

14. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the terminal is installed in a store;

and the management server performs;

converting the book contents data corresponding to a book which is requested for viewing from the terminal, to image data for viewing, and then sending the image data for viewing to the terminal, to make the terminal display the image data for viewing;

converting the book contents data corresponding to a book which is requested for printing from the terminal, to data for printing, and then sending the data for printing to a printing bookbinding apparatus which includes an image forming apparatus, to make the printing bookbinding apparatus print the data for printing and perform bookbinding; and

account processing according to results of book printing and bookbinding by the printing bookbinding apparatus.

15. The system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the store is a bookstore.

16. A method for managing printed book publishing, comprising the steps of:

obtaining book contents data from a data server which stores the book contents data in accordance with a request from a terminal;

converting the obtained book contents data to image data for viewing; and

sending the image data for viewing to the terminal, to make the terminal display the image data for viewing.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

converting the book contents data to data for printing according to a request from a terminal; and

sending the data for printing to a printing bookbinding apparatus, to make the printing bookbinding apparatus print the data for printing and perform bookbinding.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, further comprising a step of account processing according to results of printing and bookbinding from the printing bookbinding apparatus.