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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1999
James Sachs, Menlo Park, CA (US);
William S. Leshner, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Brady Duga, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Garth Conboy, La Jolla, CA (US);
Andrew Marder, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas William Brown, Oceanside, CA (US);
Softbook Press, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method to efficiently generate and switch page display views on a portable electronic book. The method includes generating an ebook binary file including a plurality of book views, each of the plurality of book views including information needed to generate page display images representing content of a reading material in a font having a particular font point size. The method further includes parsing the ebook binary file and generating the page display images representing content of a reading material.