SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AN E-BOOK

• US 20080229190A1
• Filed: 02/08/2008
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Byron Johnson
• Original Assignee: Byron Johnson
• Inventors: Johnson, Byron
• Application Number:
  US12/028,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20080229190A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/238
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13093 Personal computer, PC
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13336 Store & forward, messaging systems email H04Q2213/13375
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13337 Picturephone, videotelephony
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13389 LAN, internet

Abstract

A system and method for providing an electronic book including rendering an electronic book viewable by a user. The electronic book system may include at least one interactive complementary feature related to at least a portion of a content of the electronic book and the at least one interactive complementary feature may be accessible to the user.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an electronic book viewable by a user; and

at least one interactive complementary feature related to at least a portion of a content of the electronic book, the at least one interactive complementary feature accessible to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic book is selected from a user-specific list of electronic books.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one interactive complementary feature is selected from the group consisting of a calculator, a graphing calculator, a dictionary, a thesaurus, a periodic table, a timeline, a map, a set of maps, and a table of equations.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one interactive complementary feature is selected from a list of interactive complementary features related to at least a portion of the content of the electronic book and accessible to the user.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a bookmarking function, the bookmarking function enabling a user to bookmark a stopping point in the electronic book for returning to at a later time.

6. A method comprising:

rendering an electronic book on a display screen of a computing device;

receiving an interactive complementary feature request from a user; and

rendering at least one interactive complementary feature related to at least a portion of a content of the electronic book in response to the interactive complementary feature request.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the electronic book is selected from a user-specific list of electronic books.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one interactive complementary feature is selected from a list of interactive complementary features related to at least a portion of the content of the electronic book and accessible to the user.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one interactive complementary feature is selected from the group consisting of a calculator, a graphing calculator, a dictionary, a thesaurus, a periodic table, a timeline, a map, a set of maps, and a table of equations.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising providing a bookmarking function, the bookmarking function enabling a user to bookmark a stopping point in the electronic book for returning to at a later time.

11. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

rendering an electronic book on a display screen of a computing device;

receiving an interactive complementary feature request from a user; and

rendering at least one interactive complementary feature related to at least a portion of a content of the electronic book in response to the interactive complementary feature request.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the electronic book is selected from a user-specific list of electronic books.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the at least one interactive complementary feature is selected from a list of interactive complementary features related to at least a portion of the content of the electronic book and accessible to the user.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the at least one interactive complementary feature is selected from the group consisting of a calculator, a graphing calculator, a dictionary, a thesaurus, a periodic table, a timeline, a map, a set of maps, and a table of equations.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions for providing a bookmarking function, the bookmarking function enabling a user to bookmark a stopping point in the electronic book for returning to at a later time.