Supplying supplementary information for printed books
First Claim
1. A method for supplying hierarchical supplementary information related to printed books comprising the steps of:
- distributing to a user base a plurality of different printed books each book having a corresponding title;
associating each different printed book having a common title with a common Internet web address;
in a first web page at said common Internet web address, identifying a user in said user base with a particular user class;
responsive to said identified user class, providing a second web page having supplementary information pertaining to said book associated with said common Internet web address, said supplementary information being consonant with said user class.
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Abstract
A method for supplying supplementary information related to printed books comprises the steps of: distributing a plurality of different printed books having respective content; supplying a common internet web access address together with each one of the plurality of different printed books; making a first web site accessible on the internet at the common address; firstly displaying at the first web site, in response to each internet access of the first web site, a first set of respective hyper links corresponding to each of the different printed books; and, secondly displaying at the first web site, in response to selection of any one of the hyper links on the first web page, a further and respective set of hyper links identifying further web sites having information relevant to and underlying the respective content of the printed book corresponding to the selected hyper link of the first web page. A programmed computer apparatus is a platform for the first web site and comprises a graphical user interface for generating the plurality of hyper links displayed for implementing the method.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for supplying hierarchical supplementary information related to printed books comprising the steps of:
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distributing to a user base a plurality of different printed books each book having a corresponding title; associating each different printed book having a common title with a common Internet web address; in a first web page at said common Internet web address, identifying a user in said user base with a particular user class; responsive to said identified user class, providing a second web page having supplementary information pertaining to said book associated with said common Internet web address, said supplementary information being consonant with said user class. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer apparatus programmed with a routine set of instructions stored in a physical medium for manipulating images on a graphical user interface, said interface being adapted to supply supplemental information related to a plurality of different printed books having respective content and distributed with a common Internet web address, said computer comprising:
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means for establishing a first Internet web site at said commonly distributed Internet web address; in a first web page at said commonly distributed Internet web address, means for identifying a user with a particular user class; responsive to said identified user class, means for providing a second web page having said supplemental information, said supplemental information being consonant with said user class. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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