System and method for visually presenting electronic media

摘要

An electronic book reader has an electronic book loaded in memory. The electronic book includes text, as well as markup tags around certain text portions. The markup tags indicate the availability of and link to supplemental content. A touch screen display allows a user to select a category of supplemental content or linked text. The display will show links for the category of content selected by the user, or will show categories of content for the linked text selected by the user.

主权项

1. An electronic media reader comprising:
an input device for receiving input from a user; an output device for providing output to a user; memory comprising:
enhanced electronic material comprising primary content that includes a number of primary content units and embedded markup tags, the markup tags identifying primary content units that have secondary data associated with them;electronic supporting data comprising primary data elements containing pointers to secondary data elements by category and secondary data elements containing category-specific content;instructions; and a processor, when executing the instructions:
formatting enhanced electronic material for display by the output device;displaying a portion of the enhanced electronic material on a first portion of the output device, the displayed enhanced electronic media including a plurality of primary content units;displaying a plurality of icons associated with categories of secondary data on a second portion of the output device, each icon being associated with a different category of secondary data;associating primary content units with secondary data category icons;monitoring user input received through the input device;determining whether a request for a category-specific secondary data element associated with a displayed primary content unit has been received; anddisplaying the requested secondary data element on a specified portion of the output device if a request for a category-specific secondary data element associated with a displayed primary content unit has been received.