Management and dynamic assembly of presentation material

• US 10,146,800 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2015
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nauerz, Andreas, Singh, Jaspreet, Sippli, Isabell, Welsch, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL
• Application Number:
  US14/681,216
• Publication Number:
  US 20160103575A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,336 Days
• Field of Search: 707706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

A method for automatically managing a plurality of slides associated with a slide-deck is provided. The method may include adding the plurality of slides to a computing system. The method may also include analyzing at least one slide within the plurality of slides. The method may further include generating a list including at least one key word or at least one tag based on the analyzing. The method may include matching the at least one key word or the at least one tag against at least one key word or at least one tag saved on a presentation server. The method may also include fetching at least one slide or at least one slide-deck from the presentation server based on the matching. The method may further include displaying the at least one fetched slide or the at least one fetched slide-deck on a user interface.

Claims

1. A method for automatically managing a plurality of slides associated with a slide-deck, the method comprising:

adding the plurality of slides to a computing system;

analyzing, by a slide analyzer, at least one slide within the plurality of slides;

rating the analyzed at least one slide within the plurality of slides, wherein the rating comprises assigning a numerical number as metadata based on a frequency in which the analyzed at least one slide has previously been selected, and wherein the assigned numerical number indicates a quality associated with the analyzed at least one slide based on the frequency in which the analyzed at least one slide has previously been selected;

generating, by the slide analyzer, a list comprising of at least one key word or at least one tag based on the analyzing of the at least one slide within the plurality of slides, wherein the generated list is associated with the at least one slide or at least one slide-deck;

matching, by a slide composer, the at least one key word or the at least one tag against at least one key word or at least one tag saved on a presentation server, wherein a plurality of different versions of annotated slides are maintained in a presentation server database stored on the presentation server and can be accessed by a community of users;

fetching, by a search engine, at least one slide or at least one slide-deck from the presentation server based on the matching, wherein the fetching comprises gathering a plurality of tags and a plurality of keywords from a plurality of existing slides and a plurality of existing slide-decks, and wherein the gathered plurality of tags and the gathered plurality of key words are presented via a user interface as a generated tag cloud;

in response to detecting a click on a tag in the generated tag cloud, displaying, by a recommendation generator, the at least one fetched slide or the at least one fetched slide-deck on the user interface, wherein the at least one fetched slide or the at least one fetched slide-deck is associated with the tag that was clicked, wherein the displaying the at least one fetched slide-deck comprises displaying a plurality of different versions of a single slide as a stack of thumbnail slides, and wherein each slide in the stack of thumbnail slides represents a particular version of the displayed at least one slide and is displayed with a corresponding checkbox to be marked for selection;

in response to detecting a plurality of single slides within the displayed stack of thumbnail slides being selected via the corresponding checkbox, assembling the selected plurality of single slides into one single new deck;

displaying the one single new deck via the user interface; and

in response to detecting a change via the user interface to at least one displayed slide within the displayed one single new deck, automatically uploading the at least one changed displayed slide to the presentation server database stored on the presentation server, wherein the uploaded at least one changed displayed slide is saved as a multiple version of the at least one displayed slide.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing of the plurality of slides comprises the use of light weight semantics and natural language processing (NLP) techniques.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated list is saved as metadata associated with the at least one slide within the plurality of slides.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the fetched at least one slide or the fetched at least one slide-deck is displayed on the user interface as at least one of a suggested similar slide, a suggested similar slide-deck, a suggested similar version slide, and a suggested similar version slide-deck.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the at least one fetched slide or the at least one fetched slide-deck on a user interface comprises the use of a difference viewer tool to compare the at least one fetched slide to at least one other fetched slide or compare the at least one fetched slide-deck to at least one other fetched slide-deck.