MULTIMEDIA INTERFACE

• US 20080134013A1
• Filed: 01/08/2008
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Audet, Mathieu
• Granted Patent: US 8,151,185 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A multimedia interface is provided, the interface comprising a first window adapted to display a multimedia document, a display bar associated with the first window, the display bar including a read position indicator representing a played portion of the multimedia document, a bookmark associated with the display bar, and a second window adapted to display a document, the document being displayed in the second window in a timely fashion according to an interaction between the read position indicator and the bookmark.

Claims

1. A multimedia interface comprising:

a first window adapted to display a multimedia document;

a display bar associated with the first window, the display bar including a read position indicator representing a played portion of the multimedia document;

a bookmark associated with the display bar; and

a second window adapted to display a document, the document being displayed in the second window in a timely fashion according to an interaction between the read position indicator and the bookmark.

2. The multimedia interface of claim 1, wherein the related document indicator further comprises a bookmark start and a bookmark end.

3. The multimedia interface of claim 1, wherein the document is of a type selected from a group consisting of a picture, a movie and a text.

4. The multimedia interface of claim 1, wherein the related document indicator is an icon associated with a type of the document.

5. A method for displaying a document, the method comprising:

providing a multimedia reader;

playing a multimedia document with the multimedia reader;

providing a read position indicator with the multimedia reader, the read position indicator adapted to represent a played portion of the multimedia document;

providing a bookmark in association with the multimedia reader;

displaying a document in a timely fashion according to an interaction between the read position indicator and the bookmark.

6. method of claim 5, wherein the related document indicator further comprises a bookmark start and a bookmark end.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the document is of a type selected from a group consisting of a picture, a movie and a text.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the related document indicator is an icon associated with a type of the document.

9. A tool comprising:

a first window adapted to display a multimedia document;

a display bar associated with the first window, the display bar enabling a read position indicator representing a played portion of the multimedia document;

a bookmark associated with the display bar; and

a second window adapted to display a document, the document being displayed in a timely fashion according to an interaction between the read position indicator and the bookmark.

10. The tool of claim 9, wherein the related document indicator further comprises a bookmark start and a bookmark end.

11. The tool of claim 9, wherein the document is of a type selected from a group consisting of a picture, a movie and a text.

12. The tool of claim 9, wherein the related document indicator is an icon associated with a type of the document.