Method and structure for managing electronic slides using a slide-reading program

• US 20070277106A1
• Filed: 05/26/2006
• Published: 11/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wynter, Laura, Takriti, Samer
• Application Number:
  US11/441,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20070277106A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

A method (and structure) of managing a software slide deck that includes a plurality of slides. Tag data is associated with one or more slides in the slide deck for purpose of processing at least one function related to managing the slide deck.

Claims

1. A method of managing a software slide deck comprising a plurality of slides, said method comprising:

associating tag data for one or more of said slides in said slide deck for processing at least one function related to managing said slide deck.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said tag data comprises at least one of:

information data from within a slide contents;

format data of a slide;

data related to an organization of a slide within a presentation; and

data entered by a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one function comprises at least one of:

sorting;

filtering; and

querying.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said tag data comprises data that is at least one of:

manually entered by a user; and

extracted automatically from slide data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of:

a tag format is pre-defined; and

a user can define a tag format.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more tags are selectively associated with each slide.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein commonly-used predefined tags can be associated with a slide.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein user-defined tags can be expressed in a semantic (natural) language.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said at least one function is executed outside of a slide presentation application program.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said at least one function is executed inside of a slide presentation application program.

20. A signal-bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform the method of managing a software slide deck, as described in claim 1.

11. A system for managing a software slide deck comprising a plurality of slides, said system comprising:

a software module for associating tag data for one or more slides in said slide deck for processing at least one function related to managing said slide deck.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising a software module executing said at least one function to process said tag data.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein said tag data comprises at least one of:

information data from within a slide contents;

format data of a slide;

data related to an organization of a slide within a presentation; and

data entered by a user.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein said at least one function comprises at least one of:

sorting;

filtering; and

querying.

15. The system of claim 11, further providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for user interactions related to said tag data and said at least one function.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein said tag data comprises data that is at least one of:

manually entered by a user through a graphical user interface (GUI); and

extracted automatically by an extraction module from data associated with each slide.

17. The system of claim 11, further comprising a macro function module wherein a user can define a function.

18. The system of claim 11, further comprising a slide-reading application program module for presenting slide data, and said at least one function related to managing said slide deck is executed outside of said slide-reading application program.

19. The system of claim 11, further comprising a slide-reading application program module for presenting slide data, and said at least one function related to managing said slide deck is executed from inside of said slide-reading application program.