Online multimedia presentation builder and presentation player

• US 20040145603A1
• Filed: 09/26/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stephen Michael Soares
• Original Assignee: Stephen Michael Soares
• Inventors: Soares, Stephen Michael
• Application Number:
  US10/672,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20040145603A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

This invention is an online multimedia electronic solution for both building and playing of online presentations. The Presentation Builder is an What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) interface that enables Internet users to upload, design, rotate, resize, create a layout, change fonts, change colors, hyper link, and drag and drop digital assets they supply or that are offered by the server into an online editor environment; captions, known as text and also streaming audio may be added. The Presentation Builder allows users to log out and later return to update changes to their existing presentations and republish the results; the Builder may be accessed from any computer on the Internet. The presentation is then viewed in the Presentation Player (a play-only-mode) without editing capabilities; it can be viewed via a link in email as a realistic looking book (three-dimensional) with the transitional effect of page turning.

Claims

1. Method of an online multimedia system for the building and playing of online presentations that have capabilities enabling an internet user to create, view and easily distribute presentations in a web browser, comprising of the following steps:

a) Registration of a user account enabling the user to login and logout at different times and places giving them access to create and update their presentations for a person using a personal computer;

b) Ability to name, describe, update and create presentations for a person using a personal computer;

c) Selection from a number of presentation styles where each style can control particular elements of how the presentation manifests itself in size, colors, sizing aspects and playback animations for a person using a personal computer;

d) Uploading digital assets online over the internet for a person using a personal computer;

e) Editing and orientation of digital assets online over the internet for a person using a personal computer;

f) Creation and selection of digital assets from the server in the form of thumb nailed tiny images representing the larger image to be selected;

g) Creation of thumbnail images to be placed on a single image for internet transmission and then for client side selection via a control file mechanism;

h) Creating a visual layout of digital assets, custom fonts, clipart and hyperlinks online over the internet supporting drag and drop operations for a person using a personal computer;

i) Global options such as compression type, aliasing, rendering formats can be chosen by the user when building their presentation;

j) The loading of a presentation script initialized at creation time is loaded at the beginning of the editing process and then upon exit of the editing process contains all the updated edits, placement, sizes, descriptions, colors, fonts and raster data that gets transferred back to the server;

k) The addition, uploading or linking to streaming music tracks, sounds and voice over narration for a person using a personal computer;

l) Ability to select particular tracks of streaming audio and particular points in the presentation for a person using a personal computer;

m) With or without a registered account the ability to view the presentation online in a playback environment with animation and streaming audio for a person using a personal computer;

n) Ability to send the user a simple link via email to view their presentation and share it with other users.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system allows the user to view a realistic method of viewing pages in a familiar environment, similar to the conventional printed version of pages turning in a printed book while online.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system allows for the decompression and accurate recreation of custom font and image raster data with or without saturation colorizing from within the playback environment.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system allows for the dynamic real time creation of custom font and image raster data with or without saturation colorizing, anti aliasing and shadowing from within the playback environment.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, automatically enhances user'"'"'s assets, clipart, text with real time anti aliasing, shadowing and translucent effects.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, packages all the assets and necessary pieces of a particular presentation together in a single entity allowing the presentation to be moved to different computer systems or networks for dispatching, downloading or playback.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, where the playback system can redirect audio streams or mix multiple streams based on the presentation'"'"'s creator'"'"'s sound preference and layout.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, where input text is drawn in a series of row widths, fonts, colors, types and styles based on the user'"'"'s selection.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, where the playback system manifests itself in a plug in architecture or as a standalone program.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, where the playback system can read presentations from the local computer or from an internet server.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, where the playback system reads a presentation script and recreates the layout and imaging effects recreating the visual layout of the presentation in a animated and audio streaming environment.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, where the playback system renders the presentation in an animated book sequence that appears to lift off the users screen, extend beyond it'"'"'s rectangular window or region and cast a shadow on the out lying portions of the display area.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein said online multimedia system, where the playback system renders the previous, current and next presentation set of slides allowing a faster transition and buffering of data whether the user advances or retreats the direction of the presentation.