System and Method for Rapid Creation and Display of Stylized Digital Content Items

• US 20090235160A1
• Filed: 05/26/2009
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tischer, Steven Neil
• Granted Patent: US 8,156,426 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets

Abstract

Stylized digital content is rapidly created by reading a first file and a plurality of second files. The first file contains a digital content item and each second file contains at least one style definition. At least one display instance of stylized digital content is created by applying the style definition of one of the plurality of second files to the digital content item of the first file. The at least one display instance is mapped to a location on the display device. A location is received from a pointing device and one of the plurality of display instances is displayed based on the received location.

Claims

1. A method for creating and displaying stylized digital content, the method comprising:

reading a first file containing a digital content item to be stylized;

reading a plurality of second files, each second file containing at least one style definition;

creating a plurality of display instances of stylized digital content by applying the at least one style definition from each second file to the digital content item of the first file;

mapping each of the plurality of second files to an area of a display device;

receiving a location on the display from a pointing device; and

displaying one of the plurality of display instances based on the received location.

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