Interactive presentation system

• US 10,409,466 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2017
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trustees of The Thomas Family Trust
• Original Assignee: Thomas Creative Group Productions, LLC
• Inventors: Thomas, Callie, Thomas, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US15/799,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20180052590A1
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

In some aspects, a method of authoring an interactive presentation includes defining a sequence of two or more primary content items within a presentation, and associating a link to additional content with a primary content item of the sequence in a non-transitory computer-readable medium. In additional aspects, a method of delivering an interactive presentation includes accessing the sequence of two or more primary content items, delivering the primary content items to a presentation device, and delivering, to applications operating on mobile devices of audience members, the primary content items with the additional content and/or one or more links thereto. In further aspects, a method of interacting with an interactive presentation includes receiving, by a mobile device of an audience member, a sequence of primary content items with additional content and/or one or more links thereto, and displaying the received primary content items and the additional content.

Claims

1. A method of delivering an interactive presentation to audience members, the method comprising:

transmitting, from one or more computer processors, to a mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members, where the mobile device application is downloaded to mobile devices of audience members from an application source;

one or more audience member permissions to be enforced by the mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members,

instructions to present, according to the one or more audience member permissions, at least part of the interactive presentation contents, and

the at least part of the interactive presentation contents;

receiving, by the one or more computer processors, audience member interactions with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents; and

based on the received audience members interactions, changing a sequence of two or more primary content items in the interactive presentation for display to the audience members, or linking first additional content to at least one of the two or more primary content items for display to a first audience member and linking second additional content to the at least one of the two or more primary content items for display to a second audience member, where the first additional content can be displayed to the first audience member and the second additional content can be displayed to the second audience member during the same time.

2. The method of claim 1 where the one or more audience member permissions comprises a permission with respect to sharing via social media, by mobile devices of the audience members, the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

3. The method of claim 1 where the mobile device application is further operable to provide a user interface that receives notes from at least one of the audience members with respect to the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

4. The method of claim 3 where the mobile device application is further operable to share the notes via social media, together with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents, when the at least one of the audience members shares the at least part of the interactive presentation contents via social media.

5. An apparatus for presenting an interactive presentation to audience members, the apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured for;

transmitting, to a mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members, where the mobile device application is downloaded to mobile devices of audience members from an application source;

one or more audience member permissions to be enforced by the mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members,

instructions to present, according to the one or more audience member permissions, at least part of the interactive presentation contents, and

the at least part of the interactive presentation contents;

receiving audience member interactions with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents; and

based on the received audience members interactions, changing a sequence of two or more primary content items in the interactive presentation for display to the audience members, or linking first additional content to at least one of the two or more primary content items for display to a first audience member and linking second additional content to at least one of the two or more primary content items for display to a second audience member, where the first additional content can be displayed to the first audience member and the second additional content can be displayed to the second audience member during the same time.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 where the one or more audience member permissions comprises a permission with respect to sharing via social media, by mobile devices of the audience members, the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

7. The apparatus of claim 5 where the mobile device application is further operable to provide a user interface that receives notes from at least one of the audience members with respect to the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 where the mobile device application is further operable to share the notes via social media, together with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents, when the at least one of the audience members shares the at least part of the interactive presentation contents via social media.

9. A method of delivering an interactive presentation to audience members, the method comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members, where the mobile device application is downloaded to mobile devices of audience members from an application source;

one or more audience member permissions to be enforced by the mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members,

instructions to present, according to the one or more audience member permissions, at least part of the interactive presentation contents, and

the at least part of the interactive presentation contents;

permitting a user of the mobile device to interact with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents according to the audience member permissions; and

based on the interaction, presenting to the user, a changed sequence of two or more primary content items in the interactive presentation, or one of a first additional content item linked to at least one of the two or more primary content items or a second additional content item linked to at least one of the two or more primary content items, where the first additional content item can be displayed to the user or another user and the second additional content item can be displayed to the user or the another use during the same time.

10. The method of claim 9 where the at least part of the interactive presentation contents include at least one of presentation slides or additional media.

11. The method of claim 10 where the additional media comprises a video.

12. The method of claim 9 where the one or more audience member permissions relate to sharing via social media, by mobile devices of audience members, all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

13. The method of claim 9 where the one or more audience member permissions relate to saving, to the mobile devices of the audience members, all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

14. The method of claim 9 further comprising providing a user interface, by the mobile device, that receives notes from the user with respect to all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising sharing the notes via social media together with the all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents when the user shares the all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents via social media.

16. An apparatus for presenting an interactive presentation to audience members, the apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured for;

receiving, by a mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members, where the mobile device application is downloaded to mobile devices of audience members from an application source;

one or more audience member permissions to be enforced by the mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members,

instructions to present, according to the one or more audience member permissions, at least part of the interactive presentation contents, and

the at least part of the interactive presentation contents;

permitting a user of the mobile device to interact with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents according to the audience member permissions; and

based on the interaction, presenting to the user, a changed sequence of two or more primary content items in the interactive presentation, or one of a first additional content item linked to at least one of the two or more primary content items or a second additional content item linked to at least one of the two or more primary content items, where the first additional content item can be displayed to the user or another user and the second additional content item can be displayed to the user or the another use during the same time.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 where the at least part of the interactive presentation contents include at least one of presentation slides or additional media.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 where the additional media comprises a video.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 where the one or more audience member permissions relate to sharing via social media, by mobile devices of audience members, all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

20. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising means for providing a user interface, by the mobile device, that receives notes from the user with respect to all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 further comprising means for sharing the notes via social media together with the all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents when the user shares the all or a portion of the at least part of the interactive presentation contents via social media.

22. A method of delivering an interactive presentation to audience members, the method comprising:

transmitting, from one or more computer processors, to a mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members, where the mobile device application is downloaded to mobile devices of audience members from an application source;

one or more audience member permissions to be enforced by the mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members,

instructions to present, according to the one or more audience member permissions, at least part of the interactive presentation contents, and

the at least part of the interactive presentation contents;

receiving, by the one or more computer processors, audience member interactions with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents; and

based on the received audience members interactions, changing the content of the interactive presentation, or linking first additional content to at least one of two or more primary content items for display to a first audience member and linking second additional content to the at least one of the two or more primary content items for display to a second audience member, where the first additional content can be displayed to the first audience member and the second additional content can be displayed to the second audience member during the same time.

23. A method of delivering an interactive presentation to audience members, the method comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members, where the mobile device application is downloaded to mobile devices of audience members from an application source;

one or more audience member permissions to be enforced by the mobile device application installed on mobile devices of audience members,

instructions to present, according to the one or more audience member permissions, at least part of the interactive presentation contents, and

the at least part of the interactive presentation contents;

permitting a user of the mobile device to interact with the at least part of the interactive presentation contents according to the audience member permissions; and

based on the interaction, presenting to the user, changed content of the interactive presentation, or one of a first additional content item linked to at least one of two or more primary content items or a second additional content item linked to at least one of the two or more primary content items, where the first additional content item can be displayed to the user or another user and the second additional content item can be displayed to the user or the another use during the same time.