Context-aware content conversion and interpretation-specific views

• US 20070250762A1
• Filed: 04/19/2006
• Published: 10/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Computer Incorporated (Apple Inc.)
• Inventors: Mansfield, Philip
• Granted Patent: US 8,407,585 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• 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

Abstract

Content encoding rendering is disclosed. An indication of a desired interpretation of a starting content having a first encoding is received. The starting content is processed to generate a representation data comprising a second encoding of the starting content, wherein the second encoding is determined automatically and at least in part by the desired interpretation. The representation data is rendered using a view associated with the desired interpretation.

Claims

1. A method of content encoding rendering, comprising:

receiving an indication of a desired interpretation of a starting content having a first encoding;

processing the starting content to generate a representation data comprising a second encoding of the starting content, wherein the second encoding is determined automatically and at least in part by the desired interpretation; and

rendering the representation data using a view associated with the desired interpretation.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the desired interpretation is associated with a first view and a second view, and the view is the first view.

3. A method as recited in claim 2, further comprising receiving an indication to render the second view and rendering the second encoding using the second view associated with the desired interpretation.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the indication of the desired interpretation is at least in part specified by a user and processing the starting content does not require the user to know the file format of the second encoding.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first encoding and the second encoding include one or more of the following:

a file format of the starting content, an organization of data in the starting content, a structure of data in the starting content, an attribute of data in the starting content, a semantic relationship of data in the starting content, and an in-memory representation of the starting content.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the desired interpretation is associated with one or more of the following:

a curriculum vitae, a journal article, a magazine, a newspaper, a greeting card, a poster, a presentation, a photo album, an expense form, a financial report, a graph, a flowchart, and a map.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein one or more steps of the processing is at least in part determined by the desired interpretation.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the starting content includes parsing at least a portion of the first encoding and reconstructing in the second encoding at least a portion of a structure of the first encoding.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the starting content includes performing or preparing the starting content for performing one or more of the following:

re-purposing, re-styling, extracting, parsing converting, searching, combining, accessing, querying, transforming, rendering, viewing, serializing, publishing, and saving the starting content.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the starting content includes determining a semantic relationship between two or more content elements comprising the starting content and including in the second encoding an encoding of the semantic relationship.

11. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein the semantic relationship is not encoded in the first encoding.

12. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the starting content includes using a content profile data that is associated with at least one rule for converting encodings, and the content profile data is associated with the desired interpretation.

13. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the starting content includes determining the second encoding based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the starting content.

14. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing the starting content includes configuring a pipeline to perform the processing.

15. A method as recited in claim 14, wherein the pipeline is used to manage one or more of data flow and order of execution associated with one or more processing components.

16. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second encoding includes an Extensible Markup Language (XML) encoding of the starting content.

17. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second encoding is at least in part an in-memory representation of the first encoding.

18. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the desired interpretation is associated with more than one encoding format.

19. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the view is associated with one or more of an organization and a visualization of at least a portion of the second encoding.

20. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the view is associated with one of one or more rendering options associated with the desired interpretation.

21. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein one or more views associated with the desired interpretation is listed on a dropdown menu bar, a dropdown selection box, a toolbar, a sidebar, a window pane, or a tabbed window.

22. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein rendering the second encoding includes using an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) associated with the view to transform the second encoding.

23. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein rendering the second encoding includes generating an output associated with an Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) and a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).

24. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein an output of the rendering can be saved in a format capable of capturing the rendering.

25. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the desired interpretation is associated one or more of the following:

an interpretation identifier, a specification of one or more encodings that can be opened or saved using the desired interpretation, a specification of one or more output views that can be rendered, a default configuration, a default view to be rendered, and a specification of one or more search fields or categories.

26. A method as recited in claim 25, wherein the specification of the one or more search fields or categories includes a specification of an identifier or a data type associated with the search fields or categories.

27. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the indication of the desired interpretation includes receiving a selection associated with the desired interpretation from a list of available interpretations determined at least in part by the starting content.

28. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising providing a search on the representation data by using a search field or a category associated with the desired interpretation, wherein a result of the search is provided with the rendered representation data.

29. A system for content encoding rendering, comprising:

a processor configured to receive an indication of a desired interpretation of a starting content having a first encoding, process the starting content to generate a representation data comprising a second encoding of the starting content, wherein the second encoding is determined automatically and at least in part by the desired interpretation, and render the representation data using a view associated with the desired interpretation; and

a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions.

30. A computer program product for content encoding rendering, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving an indication of a desired interpretation of a starting content having a first encoding;

processing the starting content to generate a representation data comprising a second encoding of the starting content, wherein the second encoding is determined automatically and at least in part by the desired interpretation; and

rendering the representation data using a view associated with the desired interpretation.