Method and System for Managing Multimedia Documents

• US 20060218191A1
• Filed: 06/09/2006
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tahoe Research Limited (f/k/a Learndale Limited) (Vector Capital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Tahoe Research Limited (f/k/a Learndale Limited) (Vector Capital Corporation)
• Inventors: Gopalakrishnan, Kumar C.
• Application Number:
  US11/423,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20060218191A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method and system authors multimedia documents from multimodal inputs. Also described are management, retrieval, and presentation of documents from the system.

Claims

1. A system for performing an operation on a multimedia document, the multimedia document using a multimodal input, the document and the operation being enhanced through analysis of the multimodal input, the system comprising:

a) a client; and

b) a system server.

2. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the operation comprises at least one of:

a) authoring the multimedia document;

b) managing the multimedia document;

c) retrieving the multimedia document based on a query;

d) accessing the multimedia document;

or

e) presenting the multimedia document.

3. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the multimodal input comprises at least one of:

a) a multimedia content;

b) a metadata;

or

c) a user input.

4. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the multimodal input is obtained from a source, the source comprising at least one of:

a) a real world environment;

b) a television screen;

c) a computer monitor;

d) a speaker;

or

e) a storage.

5. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the client is integrated into a portable device.

6. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system server is connected to the client over a communication network.

7. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system server is integrated with the client on a device.

8. The system recited in claim 2 wherein the operation is performed using a website.

9. The system recited in claim 1 further comprising:

storing the document in the system.

10. The system recited in claim 1 further comprising a mechanism for communicating the document using a communication channel, wherein the communication channel comprises at least one of:

a) e-mail;

b) instant messaging;

c) MMS;

or

d) SMS.

11. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the document is configured to include an information service.

12. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the document is classified into a classification.

13. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the document is shared between a plurality of users of the system.

14. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system is configured to restrict the access to the document to a user of the system.

15. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system is configured to include a financial transaction for performing the operation.

16. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the analysis of a multimodal input includes extraction of an embedded visual element from a visual content.

17. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the computer analysis of a multimodal input includes extraction of textual information from an audio content.

18. The system recited in claim 1 wherein the computer analysis uses information from a knowledge base.

19. A method for authoring a document comprising:

a) capturing a multimodal input;

b) extracting an embedded information from the multimodal content;

c) composing the document from the multimodal input content; and

d) storing the document in a documents database.

20. A method for retrieving and presentation of a document comprising:

a) capturing a multimodal input for generating a query;

b) extracting an embedded information from the multimodal input in the query;

c) identification of the document from a documents database matching the query;

d) communicating the identified document to a client; and

e) presenting the document on the client.