Authoring, deploying and using interactive, data-driven two or more dimensional content

• US 10,031,896 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2014
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bridgeborn, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Bridgeborn, Inc.
• Inventors: Ambrosino, Timothy J., Curry, Kevin M., Ingalsbe, Ted E., Johns, Robert G., Brazell, Michael C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chau T
• Application Number:
  US14/202,368
• Publication Number:
  US 20140201610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,597 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149

Abstract

A method whereby dynamic, interactive, two or more dimensional media can be assembled and delivered where the need for pre-packaged binary content files and pre-compiled content is eliminated by using a markup language, a standard URI to identify local and/or remote media resources within a markup text, a standard protocol to retrieve the resource, a parser to load resources from the native format and a markup language to define behavior and where dynamic, interactive, n-dimensional media is achieved by using a markup language, connecting or embedding content into a local or remote data source, dragging-and-dropping markup text into a content provider application, updating content using a form, establishing a two-way connection between content and one or more data sources such that changing to the data source(s) and seeing the results propagate to the scene changing the content and seeing the results propagate to the data source(s) and using a markup language to issue commands, configure interaction, and create behavior.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a markup language document describing a three-dimensional scene;

deserializing the markup language document into objects and instructions;

identifying a linked resource in the objects and instructions;

identifying a native format and native location for the linked resource;

generating an intermediate representation of a portion of the linked resource based on the native format;

embedding the intermediate representation within the objects and instructions, the embedding replacing the portion of the linked resource present in the objects and instructions;

directly streaming the linked resource in the native format from the native location according to the intermediate representation; and

displaying the three-dimensional scene described in the objects and instructions, the three-dimensional scene including the linked resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the linked resource is selected from a group consisting of remote data and remote content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the linked resource comprises a database record.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving an update to the linked resource; and

updating the display of the linked resource based on the update.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein updating the display of the linked resource based on the update comprises updating a property of the linked resource.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the linked resource is streamed to a local cache.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user interaction with the linked resource;

updating the display of the linked resource based on the user interaction; and

transmitting an update to a property of the linked resource to a server.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein an update to a property of the linked resource to a server causes an update to a database record associated with the linked resource.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the markup language document comprises a scene graph.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the linked resource comprises a three-dimensional model file.

11. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium bearing instructions to cause one or more computers to:

receive a markup language document describing a three-dimensional scene;

deserialize the markup language document into objects and instructions;

identify a linked resource in the objects and instructions;

identify a native format and native location for the linked resource;

generate an intermediate representation of a portion of the linked resource based on the native format;

embed the intermediate representation within the m objects and instructions, the embedding replacing the portion of the linked resource present in the objects and instructions;

directly stream the linked resource in the native format from the native location according to the intermediate representation; and

display the three-dimensional scene described in the objects and instructions, the three-dimensional scene including the linked resource.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the linked resource is selected from a group consisting of remote data and remote content.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the linked resource comprises a database record.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the instructions cause the one or more computers to:

receive an update to the linked resource; and

update the display of the linked resource based on the update.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein updating the display of the linked resource based on the update comprises updating a property of the linked resource.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, in which the instructions cause the one or more computers to stream the linked resource to a local cache.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the instructions cause the one or more computers to:

receive a user interaction with the linked resource;

update the display of the linked resource based on the user interaction; and

transmit an update to a property of the linked resource to a server.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein an update to a property of the linked resource to a server causes an update to a database record associated with the linked resource.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the markup language document comprises a scene graph.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein linked resource comprises three-dimensional model file.