Electronic multimedia publishing systems and methods

摘要

An electronic multimedia publishing system includes an authoring system, a service provider system, and a remote computing device. The authoring system creates an enhanced electronic book comprising text, multimedia content, and interactive services. The service provider system allows execution of the interactive services, adapts the enhanced electronic book based on usage of the enhanced electronic book by a user, and interfaces the enhanced electronic book to a plurality of additional services. The remote computing device renders the enhanced electronic book to the user and manages interactions between the user, the enhanced electronic book, and the service provider system using the interactive services.

主权项

1. An electronic multimedia publishing system comprising:
an authoring system that creates an enhanced electronic book comprising text, multimedia content, and interactive services; a service provider system that allows execution of the interactive services, that adapts the enhanced electronic book based on usage of the enhanced electronic book by a user, and that interfaces the enhanced electronic book to a plurality of additional services; and a remote computing device that renders the enhanced electronic book to the user and that manages interactions between the user, the enhanced electronic book, and the service provider system using the interactive services, wherein the authoring system comprises an emulation module that emulates the enhanced electronic book using (i) functions of the service provider system and a configuration of the remote computing device or (ii) functions of a fully functional service provider system and a configuration of a generic remote computing device to verify consistency of the enhanced book with author intent for rendering the enhanced book on the remote computing device.