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SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISPLAYING PAGES OF A DIGITAL EDITION AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR SAME

  • US 20170351643A1
  • Filed: 11/20/2014
  • Published: 12/07/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2014
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A preview system for automatically previewing pages of a digital edition while at least some of the pages are concurrently being edited on computers connected to an editing system for publishing to different types of end-user devices, the preview system comprising:

  • a plurality of processor-based devices each corresponding to a specific type of the end-user devices, each processor-based device having a communication module configured to request an update of a given page of the digital edition and to maintain a page communication channel open between the corresponding one of the processor-based devices and a storage unit, each one of the processor-based devices running a dedicated software application for reading a compiled file containing at least the given page of the digital edition and having a display for displaying the update of the given page upon receiving an updated compiled file;

    an assembler unit operatively connected to the editing system, the assembler unit comprising a compiler module configured to continually generate updated compiled files of edited pages of the digital edition in a format readable by the dedicated software application, automatically as the pages are being edited on the computers connected to the editing system, the assembler unit comprising an output module to continually send the updated compiled files to the storage unit; and

    the storage unit operatively connected to the processor-based devices and to the assembler unit, the storage unit having a memory configured to store the updated compiled files, and a communication module configured to send, over the page communication channel established with a given one of the processor-based devices, the updated compiled file corresponding to the given page for which the given one of the processor-based devices has requested an update, as the updated compiled file is being received on the storage unit.

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