On-line menu updating for an electronic book
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Feb 27, 2001
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Oct 16, 1998
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A method for on-line displaying and updating a dynamic menu included in a page requested by a viewing device from a server. The dynamic menu has at least one item. The viewing device has a display screen and a menu function key for displaying a default menu when the viewing device is off-line. The method includes the following steps: (a) sending the page to the viewing device as a hypertext language code, the hypertext language code including a menu tag which specifies the dynamic menu; (b) receiving the page at the viewing device; (c) parsing the hypertext language code to identify the menu tag; (d) displaying the page on the display screen; (e) displaying the dynamic menu on the display screen when the menu function key is activated; and (f) performing a dynamic action when one item of the dynamic menu is selected by an action of a user of the viewing device.
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