Patent ID: 7020663
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable-medium-electronic-book assembly, comprising: a) a portable physical container for housing a computer readable medium; b) a pre-recorded audio narration file of substantially an entire book stored on a single computer readable medium; c) an electronic text file of substantially the entire book stored on said computer readable medium; d) a synchronization file linking time signatures of the pre-recorded audio narration with locations in the electronic text stored on said computer readable medium; e) a reader program adapted to cause a computer to display text of the book, to play the pre-recorded audio narration of the book, and to allow a user to link there-between as desired using the linking file stored on said computer readable medium; f) an automatic installation program to automatically install the reader software upon placement of the computer readable medium within a computer stored on said computer readable medium; g) said container housing said computer readable medium, said container having a picture that is visible from a front surface thereof that is substantially the same as that on a hard-cover copy of the book, and having a spine from which is visible a title of the book and/or the author's name; h) wherein said pre-recorded audio narration has a recorded audio narration of an actual human voice; i) wherein said reader program is configured such that when the pre-recorded audio narration is played, a corresponding page of text is concurrently displayed in a fixed non-scrolling condition; j) wherein said reader program is configured such that when the pre-recorded audio narration of the book is played and said corresponding page of text is concurrently displayed in said fixed non-scrolling condition, a corresponding segment of the text for which the pre-recorded audio narration is concurrently played is highlighted in such a manner that the highlighting moves downward along the corresponding fixed non-scrolling page of text as the audio narration of an actual human voice is played; k) wherein said reader program is configured such that upon the pre-recorded audio narration of the book and the highlighting reaching at or near a last line of text displayed, the display is changed such that a subsequent page of text will be displayed and the highlighted text will commence proximate an upper portion of the subsequent page of newly displayed text; l) wherein said reader program is configured such that a two-page display of text can be presented with two pages in a side-by-side relationship, and wherein when the pre-recorded audio narration of the book is played, a corresponding segment of the text for which the pre-recorded audio narration is concurrently played is highlighted in such a manner that the highlighting moves downward along the corresponding page of text as the audio narration is played first from a top to a bottom of the left-side page and then from a top to a bottom of the right-side page, and wherein the two-page display is then changed such that a new two-page display of text is presented; m) wherein said reader program is configured to present said two-page display in a manner to be similar to an open book with a gutter graphically displayed in a middle between said two pages to simulate a physical book; n) wherein said reader software is adapted to concurrently display an image of a book with two peripheral side edge region ( o) wherein said computer readable medium is a single CD; p) wherein said reader program is adapted to create a personal file that contains personal information related to a user; g) wherein said personal file includes information related to bookmarks; r) wherein said reader software is adapted to enable the personal file to be saved to a digital data storage device; s) wherein said reader software is adapted to create a library of electronic books, wherein said library includes electronic books stored on a particular computer or electronic books that are not stored on the computer but that may be accessible to a user.