Patent ID: 7194525

Claim:
Process for distributing information contained in a computer database in an easily transportable form, the process comprising the steps of: partitioning the information contained in the database into units of equal size each with a predetermined number of symbols that can be printed on a single sheet of paper in the form of a four-page booklet, on a server computer, transmitting the units from the server and through a computer communication network from a medium on which the information is saved, to client computer equipment, separate from the server computer, the client computer equipment being connected to a printer; activating the client computer equipment and the printer via a sequence of menus to access the units on line from the server computer, to select the units containing the information in which the user is interested, and to control printing of these units on a printable medium using the printer, the process further comprising a step of loading, or downloading a software printing process which includes the steps of formatting each unit of the retrieved information on a single sheet of paper in the form of a four-page booklet and controlling the printer to print the information in the form of the four-page booklet, wherein the software printing process includes the steps of: breaking down the symbols contained in each unit into four frames ordinally numbered first to fourth following an order of the pages of the booklet, and laying out the four frames on a front side of the sheet of paper such that the first and third frames are located on one diagonal of the sheet, and the second and fourth frames are located on an other diagonal of the sheet.