Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-28
2006-03-28
Gaffin, Jeffrey (Department: 2165)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07020663
ABSTRACT:
An electronic book on a computer readable medium, e.g., a CD or the like, has “real-life” pre-recorded audio (preferably, in MP3 format) and visual text (preferably, in RTF format) seamlessly linked together via a linking file (preferably, in XML format) such that a reader can switch back and forth “at will” between visually reading on a computer display screen and/or listening to the book being read aloud by an actual narrator. The computer readable medium includes a reader program installed thereon and an automatic installation program. A novel process for creating the electronic book includes a creator program that may have a similar graphical user interface to the reader program. The electronic book may combine advantages of physical hard-cover books with new e-reading functionality developed by the present inventor.
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Hay George M.
Rasmussen Gerald
Abel-Jalil Neveen
Gaffin Jeffrey
Hay George M.
Parker, Esq. Stephen B.
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