Enhancing touch and feel on the internet
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1. A method, comprising:
- in a server of a network, storing a plurality of images representing pages of a book, said images stored with a resolution effective to enable said book to be read;
responsive to a request over the network, sending one of said images to a remote node; and
determining if the request for pages exceeds a certain threshold, and sending said information only if said threshold is not exceeded.
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Abstract
A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions. The good being sold is in a package and the package is displayed from the number of different directions. The present invention has the good being a book, and the inside and outside covers of the book are displayed and specified pages of the book can be displayed. The user can read from either the label or the covers just like as if the were actually handling the good.
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1. A method, comprising:
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in a server of a network, storing a plurality of images representing pages of a book, said images stored with a resolution effective to enable said book to be read; responsive to a request over the network, sending one of said images to a remote node; and determining if the request for pages exceeds a certain threshold, and sending said information only if said threshold is not exceeded. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a client of a network, information about which of a specified plurality of images to be displayed, each of specified plurality of images showing textual information and at least a plurality of said images showing non-textual information, said textual information representative of contents of a book; displaying said images responsive to said requests; displaying a screen tip, indicating what the reaction will be to a specified operation. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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9. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a client of a network, information about which of a specified plurality of images to be displayed, each of specified plurality of images showing textual information and at least a plurality of said images showing non-textual information, said textual information representative of contents of a book; displaying said images responsive to said requests; and wherein each of said images use a graded resolution, which provides readable resolution for readable parts and a different resolution for non-readable parts. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a client of a network, information about which of a specified plurality of images to be displayed, each of specified plurality of images showing textual information and at least a plurality of said images showing non-textual information, said textual information representative of contents of an information media; displaying said images responsive to said requests; and displaying keys which enable moving a position of viewing of said information media. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a client of a network, information about which of a specified plurality of images to be displayed, each of specified plurality of images showing textual information and at least a plurality of said images showing non-textual information, said textual information representative of contents of an entertainment media; displaying said images responsive to said requests; and detecting a number of pages that have been read, and limiting use of said number of pages. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A method of reading a book over the Internet, comprising:
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requesting a page of a book on a client of the Internet; determining, in a server of the Internet, if more than a specified number of pages of said book have been requested by a specified user; and sending said page only if the specified number of pages does not exceed a threshold. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. An apparatus comprising:
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a computer, providing limited pages of books that can be viewed over a publically available network, and including a connection to the network, and which recieves information indicative of at least one desired page of a book over the connection to the network; and
returns information indicative of only limited images of pages of the book based on said information; andwherein said computer limits a number of pages that can be displayed. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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