Method for editing multimedia pages on a terminal using pre-stored parameters of objects appearing in scenes

• US 20090217157A1
• Filed: 02/13/2004
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Gegout, Cedric
• Granted Patent: US 8,639,845 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234318 by decomposing into objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs

Abstract

The invention relates to multimedia page editing via a terminal. A server supplies multimedia pages to the terminal in the form of object arrangement commands for objects identified by parameters. A method according to the invention comprises a preliminary step wherein the server transmits all or part of the object-related parameters as well as a store command, whereby the parameters are stored in a terminal memory; and a main step wherein the server transmits a simple parameter retrieval command for editing at least one multimedia page in which the above-mentioned object appears.

Claims

1. A method of editing multimedia pages on a terminal, in which a server supplies one or more terminals with at least some of said multimedia pages in the form of object arrangement instructions for objects identified by associated parameters,

characterized in that the method comprises:

a) at least a preliminary step during which the server transmits at least some of the parameters associated with an object, and an instruction to store said parameters in a terminal memory,

b) and at least a main step during which the server transmits a simple instruction to restore said parameters previously stored in terminal memory, to edit at least one multimedia page in which said object occurs.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the step b) alone is repeated to edit a number of multimedia pages in which said object occurs.

3. The method as claimed in claims 1 and 2, characterized in that said parameters comprise at least declarative attributes of an arrangement of the object in a multimedia page.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that said parameters also include an identifier of a memory area of the terminal allocated to store said attributes.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that the restore instruction includes the identifier of said memory area to retrieve said attributes.

6. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it also comprises an end-of-editing step for multimedia pages including said object, a step in which the server transmits to the terminal an instruction to delete the parameters associated with said object.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, taken in combination with claim 5, characterized in that the delete instruction includes the identifier of said memory area of the terminal to delete from said memory area the parameters associated with the object.

8. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said instructions are transmitted in packets from the server to the terminal.

9. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said instructions are in the form of commands corresponding to low-level functions.

10. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the terminal is a mobile terminal arranged to cooperate with a cellular network.

11. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that said object is a graphic object comprising at least one of the following elements:

an image,

a sequence of images,

a sequence of 2D synthetic images,

and a sequence of 3D synthetic images.

12. A program product in the form of computer code, characterized in that it includes an instruction to store, in a memory of a terminal, parameters of at least one object intended to be arranged, according to said parameters, in a multimedia page suitable for editing on said terminal.

13. A program product in the form of computer code, characterized in that it includes an instruction to restore parameters previously stored in a memory of a terminal, these parameters being associated with at least one object intended to be arranged, according to said parameters, in a multimedia page suitable for editing on said terminal.

14. A program product in the form of computer code, characterized in that it includes an instruction to delete parameters previously stored in a memory of a terminal and associated with at least one object to be arranged, according to said parameters, in a multimedia page edited on said terminal.

15. A signal comprising a computer code, characterized in that the code contains an instruction to store, in a memory of a terminal, parameters of at least one object intended to be arranged, according to said parameters, in a multimedia page suitable for editing on said terminal.

16. A signal comprising a computer code, characterized in that the code includes an instruction to restore parameters previously stored in a memory of a terminal, these parameters being associated with at least one object intended to be arranged, according to said parameters, in a multimedia page suitable for editing on said terminal.

17. A signal comprising a computer code, characterized in that the code includes an instruction to delete parameters previously stored in a memory of a terminal and associated with at least one object to be arranged, according to said parameters, in a multimedia page edited on said terminal.