CN104424400B - Method and apparatus for digital reading - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and device for digital reading. The method includes: a terminal parses an identifier of a downloaded electronic publication; the terminal downloads a resource list corresponding to the terminal from a provider of the electronic publication; Wherein, the resource list includes a collection of identifiers of various electronic publications that the terminal has the right to read; the terminal obtains whether the electronic publication can be opened according to the judgment result of whether the analyzed identifier is in the list. authority of things. The present invention also provides a device for digital reading. The purpose of the present invention is to make full and reasonable use of the assets of the equipment on mobile devices such as ipad and android for electronic publications, improve the copyright protection of electronic publications, and simultaneously ensure that The electronic publications purchased by the user at one time can be used among multiple devices of the user.

Description

Method and device for digital reading

technical field

The invention relates to the field of digital reading, in particular to a method and device for digital reading.

Background technique

Currently, iPad tablet computers and android terminal devices are popular all over the world, and reading electronic publications on these terminal devices has become a popular way of reading nowadays. However, this has brought a relatively large challenge to the manufacturers of electronic publications. The simplification of copyright protection mechanisms and the phenomenon of individual purchase and multi-person use often occur, which has brought adverse effects to publishers and other users.

The traditional copyright protection method is to set a password in the publication, and the user will be issued a decryption key after downloading and purchasing. In this way, the decryption key will be purchased by a single person, and then used by many people. After the decryption key is used for free by a small number of people, it will not cause much impact on the publishing house. However, when the decryption key is used collectively and for free , the huge profits of the publishing house will be affected.

Contents of the invention

One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide a method and device for digital reading, so as to avoid single-person purchase and multi-person use, thereby improving the copyright protection of electronic publications.

The present invention provides a method for digital reading, including: the terminal parses the identifier of the downloaded electronic publication; the terminal downloads the resource list corresponding to the terminal from the provider of the electronic publication; wherein, the The resource list includes a set of identifiers of various electronic publications that the terminal has the right to read; the terminal obtains the permission to open the electronic publication according to the judgment result of whether the analyzed identifier is in the list .

The present invention also provides a device for digital reading, including: a parsing module for parsing the identifier of the downloaded electronic publication for the terminal; a downloading module for the terminal from the provider of the electronic publication downloading a resource list corresponding to the terminal; wherein, the resource list includes a collection of identifiers of electronic publications that the terminal has the right to read; a permission module is used to provide the terminal according to whether the parsed identifier is According to the judgment result of the list, the authority to open the electronic publication can be obtained.

The purpose of the present invention is to make full and reasonable use of assets of electronic publications on mobile devices such as ipad and android, improve the copyright protection of electronic publications, and at the same time ensure that the electronic publications purchased by users once can be used in their own multiple between devices.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings described here are used to provide a further understanding of the present invention and constitute a part of the application. The schematic embodiments of the present invention and their descriptions are used to explain the present invention and do not constitute improper limitations to the present invention. In the attached picture:

Figure 1 shows an embodiment of a method flow for digital reading;

Fig. 2 shows another embodiment of the method flow for digital reading;

Figure 3 shows a schematic structural embodiment of an electronic reading device;

Figure 4 shows an example of user usage.

Detailed ways

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and in combination with embodiments.

FIG. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of a method sequence for digital reading.

Step S11, the terminal parses the identifier of the downloaded electronic publication;

Step S12, the terminal downloads a resource list corresponding to the terminal from the provider of the electronic publication; wherein, the resource list includes a collection of identifiers of electronic publications that the terminal has the right to read;

In step S13, the terminal obtains permission to open the electronic publication according to the judgment result of whether the analyzed identifier is in the list.

Through the above steps, the resources that can be read by the terminal are controlled, and the situation that one network resource is displayed on multiple terminals is avoided. It effectively protects the interests of the electronic mall as the provider and the situation that the author's copyright is stolen.

Referring to Fig. 2, another embodiment of the present invention comprises:

S21: The user logs in to the provider; registers multiple terminal identifiers;

S22: Before generating the user's certificate, the provider judges the number of terminal IDs submitted by the user, and stores multiple terminal IDs whose number is within a threshold range in the device list.

S23: The provider generates a certificate for the user; wherein, the certificate includes: the resource list and the device list; the device list includes a plurality of terminal identifiers that can operate resources in the resource list.

S24: The terminal obtains the resource list by downloading the certificate;

S25: The terminal judges whether its own identity is in the device list;

S26: If the terminal determines that the analyzed identifier is in the resource list and its own identifier is in the device list, it obtains the permission to open the electronic publication.

Through the judgment of the equipment list, the number of terminals distributing the electronic publication is controlled, and the interests of copyright are maintained.

Preferably, the identifier of the terminal may be a code of the device, such as a serial number or MAC address of a mobile phone, a MAC address of a PC, and the like.

Preferably, step S26 also includes: before obtaining the authority to open the electronic publication, judging whether the time of the certificate is within the validity period;

If it is, get the permission; if not, download the certificate again.

Through the time control of the certificate, the security of electronic publications obtained by users is improved.

S27: The terminal opens the electronic publication to implement operations on it.

Preferably, in the above steps, also include:

the user logs into said provider;

Remove one or part of the terminal identification.

Preferably, it also includes:

The provider limits the number of times the user registers and/or cancels the terminal identification within a predetermined range.

If it exceeds, stop the user's registration and/or release the terminal identification.

This can prevent fraudulent use of one-time invalidation of personal certificates, such as [the user associates with device A, downloads a personal certificate, and the certificate is valid for one month; the user cancels the association with device A, then associates with device B, downloads a personal certificate, and the certificate is valid 1 month; the user cancels the association relationship with device B, then associates with device C, downloads a personal certificate, and the certificate is valid for 1 month...], the system controls the number of times the user can cancel the association with the device each year. For example, 3 times, after the last time, the association will not be allowed this year. The valid time of the certificate is 1 month, which is set in the background of the system, and it can also be 3 months, 6 months, half a year, etc.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a device for digital reading, see Figure 3, including:

A parsing module, used for parsing the identifier of the downloaded electronic publication for the terminal;

A download module, configured to download, for the terminal, a resource list corresponding to the terminal from the provider of the electronic publication; wherein, the resource list includes identifiers of electronic publications that the terminal has the right to read gather;

The authority module is used to obtain the authority to open the electronic publication according to the judgment result of whether the identifier analyzed by the analysis module is in the list downloaded by the download module.

Preferably, it also includes:

The certificate module is configured to generate a user certificate for the provider; wherein, the certificate includes: the resource list and the device list; the device list includes a plurality of terminal identifiers that can operate resources in the resource list. The downloaded certificate is provided for the download module, and the download module obtains the resource list and the device list through the downloaded certificate.

Preferably, it also includes:

An identification module, configured to determine whether the identification of the current terminal itself is in the device list downloaded by the download module;

If the identification module judges that the identification analyzed by the analysis module is in the resource list and its own identification is in the device list downloaded by the download module, then the authority to open the electronic publication is obtained;

The certificate period module is used to determine whether the time of the certificate downloaded by the download module is within the validity period before the terminal obtains the authority to open the electronic publication;

If yes, get the permission; if not, trigger the certificate module to re-download the certificate.

Figure 4 shows an example of user usage.

Include the following steps:

1. Before purchasing electronic publications, the user needs to register in the electronic mall, and the device identification of one or more user end devices (including but not limited to ipad, iphone and android mobile devices, etc.) of the same user can be notified. It can be various device identifiers, such as MAC address.

After registration, the user can bind one or more terminal devices. At the same time, the network-side system can control the number of devices that can be bound to a user.

2. Purchase electronic publications;

When a user purchases an electronic publication, the complete data package of the electronic publication consists of two parts. 1. Publication data package; 2. Binding device identification.

3. Return the spliced packet address;

The data package downloaded by the user is dynamically spliced according to the content of the first and second parts. When reading a publication, the reader first obtains the local device ID, and compares it with the bound device ID in the downloaded data. If the bound device ID contains the local device ID, it can be read; It cannot be read if it contains the device identification of this machine.

4-1. Start the reader;

4-2. The reader goes to the mall to download the certificate;

The content of the certificate includes: user ID, user device ID, electronic publication ID purchased by the user, and the expiration date of the certificate.

5. The data packet binding device matches the local device ID;

6. The user reads the downloaded electronic publication.

It can be seen that the problem of single-person purchase and multi-person use can be solved by binding the user equipment identifier when downloading the electronic publication. Improve the copyright protection of publications when browsing electronic publications on ipad, android mobile devices and other terminals. At the same time, users can read on multiple terminals, which is a method to enhance the user's portability experience.

Obviously, those skilled in the art should understand that each module or each step of the above-mentioned present invention can be realized by a general-purpose computing device, and they can be concentrated on a single computing device, or distributed in a network formed by multiple computing devices Optionally, they can be implemented with program codes executable by computing devices, thus, they can be stored in storage devices and executed by computing devices, or they can be made into individual integrated circuit modules, or they can be integrated into Multiple modules or steps are fabricated into a single integrated circuit module to realize. As such, the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. For those skilled in the art, the present invention may have various modifications and changes. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be included within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. A method for digital reading, comprising: The terminal parses the identifier of the downloaded electronic publication; The terminal downloads a resource list corresponding to the terminal from the provider of the electronic publication; wherein, the provider generates a user's certificate, and the certificate includes: the resource list and the device list; the The device list includes a plurality of terminal identifiers that can operate resources in the resource list, and the resource list includes a collection of identifiers of various electronic publications that the terminal has the right to read; The terminal obtains permission to open the electronic publication according to the judgment result of whether the analyzed identifier is in the resource list. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal obtains the resource list by downloading the certificate; Also includes: Judging whether its own identity is in the device list; If the terminal determines that the analyzed identifier is in the resource list and its own identifier is in the device list, it obtains the permission to open the electronic publication. 3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising: before obtaining the authority to open the electronic publication, judging whether the time of the certificate is within the validity period; If it is, get the permission; if not, download the certificate again. 4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising: the user logging into the provider; Register multiple terminal identities; Before generating the user's certificate, the provider judges the number of terminal IDs submitted by the user, and stores multiple terminal IDs whose number is within a threshold range in the device list. 5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising: logging in to the provider by a user; Remove one or part of the terminal identification. 6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising: limiting the number of times the user registers and/or cancels the terminal identification within a predetermined range. 7. A device for digital reading, characterized in that it comprises: A parsing module, used for parsing the identifier of the downloaded electronic publication for the terminal; A download module, configured to download a resource list corresponding to the terminal from the provider of the electronic publication for the terminal; wherein, the provider generates a user certificate, and the certificate includes: the resource list and a device list; the device list includes a plurality of terminal identifiers that can operate resources in the resource list, and the resource list includes a collection of identifiers of electronic publications that the terminal has the right to read; The authority module is configured to obtain, for the terminal, the authority to open the electronic publication according to the judgment result of whether the analyzed identifier is in the resource list. 8. The device according to claim 7, further comprising: The identification module is used to judge whether the identification of the current terminal itself is in the device list; if the terminal determines that the analyzed identification is in the resource list and its own identification is in the device list, it will obtain the Access to electronic publications; The certificate period module is used to determine whether the time of the certificate is within the validity period before the terminal obtains the authority to open the electronic publication; If it is, get the permission; if not, download the certificate again.