Creation of a sequence of electronic presentation slides

• US 20070186167A1
• Filed: 02/06/2006
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Massachusetts Medical Society
• Original Assignee: The Massachusetts Medical Society
• Inventors: Anderson, Kent
• Application Number:
  US11/348,429
• Publication Number:
  US 20070186167A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

From a digitally stored body of items that are related in subject matter and together comprise a work, a subset of the items is automatically selected that will be representative of the work, and a sequence of presentation slides is automatically created from the selected subset. Different versions of the work may be published in different media and sequences of presentation slides may be automatically generated from a subset of the content items for distribution to users of the published versions.

Claims

1. A method comprising

from a digitally stored body of items that are related in subject matter and together comprise a work, automatically selecting a subset of the items that will be representative of the work, and

automatically creating a sequence of presentation slides from the selected subset.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the selected items include at least one of tables, images, drawings, charts, animations, video segments, audio segments, or graphs.

3. The method of claim 1 in which the selected items include text.

4. The method of claim 1 in which the selecting is based on information identifying at least one of:

types of the items, patterns in punctuation or other common characteristics, or roles of the items in the work,

5. The method of claim 1 in which the creating includes generating a PowerPoint-compatible file of the sequence.

6. The method of claim 1 in which the creating includes generating a control file.

7. The method of claim 1 in which one or both of the selecting and creating are done in connection with a publication of a version of the work and prior to a time when a user needs the sequence of presentation slides.

8. The method of claim 1 in which one or both of the selecting and creating are done in response to a request of a user.

9. The method of claim 1 in which the request of the user is received electronically.

10. The method of claim 9 in which the request is received in response to serving of a webpage that contains a portion of the work.

11. The method of claim 1 in which the work comprises a scholarly article.

12. The method of claim 1 also including delivering the sequence electronically to a user.

13. The method of claim 1 also including

from other digitally stored bodies of items that are related in subject matter and together comprise other works, automatically selecting subsets of the items that will be representative of the other works, and

automatically creating sequences of presentation slides from the selected subsets.

14. A medium bearing instructions to cause a device to

from a digitally stored body of content items that are related in subject matter and together comprise a work, automatically select a subset of the items that will be representative of the work, and

automatically create a sequence of presentation slides from the selected subset.

15. A method comprising

from a digitally stored body of content items that are related in subject matter and together comprise a work, publishing different versions of the work in different media and automatically generating sequences of presentation slides from a subset of the content items for distribution to users of the published versions.