公开(公告)号：US20030187954A1

公开(公告)日：2003-10-02

申请号：US10108509

申请日：2002-03-29

Applicant: Inventec Appliances Corp.

Inventor： Shih-Jen Wen ,  Shih-Kuang Tsai ,  Wen-Chiang Chin ,  Hua-Feng Mai ,  Pei-Chih Li

IPC: G06F015/16

CPC classification number: G06Q30/06

Abstract: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for downloading an e-book via a portable electronic device in communication with a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server over the Internet, the method comprises activating a wireless application protocol (WAP) browser to enter into an e-book Web site provided by an Internet service provider (ISP); displaying a pane containing an e-book catalog option sent from the e-book Web site on a display of the electronic device; reading the catalog option selected on the display for retrieving an e-book catalog; sending the retrieved catalog to the WAP browser prior to showing the same on the display; reading a name of e-book selected from the e-book catalog; downloading the selected e-book; and storing the downloaded e-book in a memory of the electronic device for offline reading.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及通过因特网与超文本传输​​协议（HTTP）服务器通信的便携式电子设备下载电子书的方法和装置，该方法包括激活无线应用协议（WAP）浏览器以进入 互联网服务提供商（ISP）提供的电子书网站; 在电子设备的显示器上显示包含从电子书网站发送的电子书目录选项的窗格; 阅读显示屏上选择的目录选项以检索电子书目录; 将显示相同的检索目录发送到WAP浏览器; 阅读从电子书目录中选出的电子书的名称; 下载选定的电子书; 并将下载的电子书存储在电子设备的存储器中用于离线阅读。