Multimedia data publishing system

• US 20030088827A1
• Filed: 12/05/2002
• Published: 05/08/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: OP3FT
• Original Assignee: STG Interactive SA
• Inventors: Grimbert, Amaury, Tamas, Alexis
• Application Number:
  US10/310,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20030088827A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/501.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/912 Applications of a database

Abstract

An electronic multimedia data publishing system including a server connected to a computer network and a number of host terminals connected to the computer network, the server including a database wherein are stored digital files containing descriptors of multimedia pages and a software program which manages the database and the exchanges with the host terminals, the host terminals being equipped with a random access memory to temporarily store digital files downloaded from the server database and a consultation program to visually display files in accordance with descriptors of a downloaded page, wherein selected digital files include descriptors with at least two visual display modes.

Claims

1. An electronic multimedia data publishing system comprising:

a server connected to a computer network and

a number of host terminals connected to the computer network,

the server including a database wherein are stored digital files containing descriptors of multimedia pages and a software program which manages the database and exchanges with the host terminals, the host terminals being equipped with a random access memory to temporarily store digital files downloaded from the server database and a consultation program to visually display files in accordance with descriptors of a downloaded page, wherein selected digital files include descriptors with at least two visual display modes.

2. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 1, wherein one of the modes corresponds to a visual display that creates a display bigger than that of a second visualization mode included in the same digital file.

3. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 1, wherein at least one digital file corresponding to a page includes means for switching between various visual display modes included in the same file.

4. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 3, wherein the means for switching is formed by detecting an activation of a key of the peripheral device when it designates an inactive zone of the display generated by the digital file.

5. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the digital files contains descriptors of a geometrical form of a visual display area.

6. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the digital files contains descriptors for automatic loading and display of at least another page.

7. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the digital files contains descriptors for loading and display of a number of interactive tabs displayed in a common display zone.

8. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 1, wherein the server includes a database wherein are stored descriptors for access to different files.

9. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 1, further comprising a contents base composed of contents files whose structure includes:

a window opening flag;

a flag preceding a zone containing instructions which call on memory resources;

a flag preceding a zone containing instructions for processing the resources;

one or more flags preceding a zone containing definitions of visual objects; and

a closure flag.

10. The electronic multimedia data publishing system of claim 9, wherein each file contains a single flag defining associated visual objects, and definitions of the objects include conditional display indicators, the indicators corresponding to the display modes.