Browsing by Author "Ren, Zhihao Julie"

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A chapter preloading mechanism for e-reader in mobile environment
(2013-05-01)
Chuang, Chen-Yuan
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Lin, Yi-Bing
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Ren, Zhihao Julie
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資訊工程學系
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Department of Computer Science
E-book is a fast growing service for mobile Internet. A user reads e-books through an e-reader that could be a dedicated reading device or a mobile application on the smartphones or the tablets. With content protection of Digital Right Management (DRM), e-books take longer chapter loading time due to necessary data decryption. This paper propose a mechanism that preloads a small number of chapters into the buffer for DRM-protected e-books. When the user reads a chapter in the buffer, our solution reduces the user waiting time without affecting existing content protection. We also analyze the buffer replacement cost and effects of the limited buffer resource. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
User-Generated E-Books from Facebook Contents
(2011)
Chuang, Chen-Yuan
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Lin, Yi-Bing
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Ren, Zhihao Julie
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Yeh, Yu-Tien
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資訊工程學系
Facebook platform offers rich APIs and has a huge number of users and user-generated contents. This paper presents our mobile Facebook application on Android, called DEFAC, which turns Facebook contents into an ePub file step by step. Users can therefore bring contents with them for offline-reading. We expect that the interactions of e-reader\'s users and social reading services may become new important applications for both social-network services and e-book industry in the near future.