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Information processing apparatus and method, and information processing system and method

A technology of information processing equipment and information processing methods, applied in data processing applications, electronic digital data processing, special data processing applications, etc., can solve the problems that users cannot decide whether to purchase, cannot further review books, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-06-29
SONY CORP
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However, since the book cannot be further reviewed, the user cannot decide whether to purchase it
[0006] Another disadvantage of the above purchase is that when a user decides to purchase an e-book after browsing its samples, the entire text data about the book needs to be downloaded, including the already downloaded sample text data

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[0042] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a typical structure of an electronic book selling system according to the present invention. The control center 2 in Fig. 1 is a computer managed by an e-book intermediary company connected to a network 1 such as the Internet for collecting e-books from the publishing company server 5 and providing the collected e-books to bookstores Servers 3-1 to 3-3. When receiving 6 paper book purchase requests from a user terminal via the network 1, the control center 2 makes a request to any one of the paper book delivery companies 8- 1 to 8-3 Set up book delivery orders. In addition, the control center appends browsing data to data from the author terminal 4 and encrypts the entire data using a content key to generate an electronic book for sale. This browsing data will be described in more detail below. It should be noted that only one user terminal 6 is included in the setup of FIG. 1 for simplicity and illustration; in reality, there are multiple...

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The present invention relates to an information processing device and its method, and an information processing system and its method, which are used to allow users to easily browse and purchase electronic books. An eBook has a header that for example describes on line 4 " <shidokupage>200 pages< / shidokupage> ", indicating that the number of pages that can be browsed is 200 pages; the " <shidoku 1 time> 15 min< / shidoku> ” means that a viewing time is 15 minutes; and” <shidoku totaltime> 45mm< / shidoku> " means that the total browsing time for this electronic book is 45 minutes. The setting of the present invention controls the browsing display of a required electronic book on the user terminal according to information such as the number of pages to be browsed, the browsing time and the total browsing time.

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technical field [0001] The invention designs an information processing device and its method, and an information processing system and its method. More specifically, the present invention relates to an information processing device and its method, and an information processing system and its method that enable users to easily browse and purchase electronic books. Background technique [0002] Electronic books and publications composed of text data are widely accepted by the general public. In contrast to books in paper form, e-books are generally displayed in a two-page-wide format when read on a suitable e-book browsing terminal, and the textual data usually represent the record notation for a particular book. Operation of an appropriate key causes the image on the display to scroll one page at a time. That is, the electronic book is displayed and operated just as the actual corresponding parts are displayed and pages turned. [0003] When purchasing a book in print, peo...

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IPC IPC(8): G07G1/14G06F21/00G06F21/10G06Q30/06G06Q50/00G07F17/16H04L9/08
CPCG06F21/10G06F2221/2135G06F2221/2137G06Q20/123G06Q20/1235G06Q30/02G06F17/00G06F21/00
Inventor 加藤好计
Owner SONY CORP
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