SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING CROSS-PLATFORM INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC WORKS

• US 20130179761A1
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Inkling Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Cho, Peter S., Cromwell, Robert, Forman, Joshua John, Kopatsy, Arthur, Cross, Joyce Myra, Genoni, Thomas Charles, Hunt, Christopher William, Itskovich, Avi, Jenkins, Jessica Summer, Jones, Kerryck Arthur Clemens, Lovett, Eric Todd, Mathe, Olof Alexander
• Granted Patent: US 10,534,842 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance

Abstract

Systems and methods for creating, editing and publishing cross-platform interactive digital content works include a content management component configured to store portions of a digital content work and to implement version control of the digital content work; a defect tracking component configured to store a defect record related to a stored portion of the digital content work; a publication pipeline component configured to format the digital content work for publication; and a integration component configured to present a graphical user interface which allows for editing the stored portions of the digital content work, editing the defect record, and instructing the publication pipeline to format the digital content work for publication.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a content-creation module configured to provide to content contributors a set of one or more content viewing and editing tools to create a target platform-independent representation of a digital content work, said content viewing and editing tools including one or more tools configured to provide simulated representations of the digital content work in appearance and function for each of a plurality of target devices or media; and

a publication module configured to produce a plurality of target platform-dependent representations of the digital content work from the target platform-independent representation of the digital content work, each target platform-dependent representation being for display on a respective one of the plurality of target devices or media,

wherein the publication module is provided profiles for each target device or medium, said profiles specifying capabilities of the respective target device or medium, and the target platform-dependent representations of the digital content work are created so as to be compliant with profile-specified capabilities of the respective target device or medium.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the publication module is configured to produce one or more of the target platform-dependent representations of the digital content work by including device-specific renderable objects in the one or more of the target platform-dependent representations of the digital content work.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the publication module is configured to produce the target platform-dependent representations of the digital content work by removing or replacing content included in the target platform-independent representation of the digital content work as required for rendering environments of respective ones of the plurality of target devices or media.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the target platform-dependent representations of the digital content work include cross-platform compatible objects renderable by multiple ones of the target devices.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the content viewing and editing tools are further configured to permit content creators to transform a static digital representation of the digital content work into a markup language representation of the digital content work by specifying mappings of portions of content from the static digital representation of the content work to a plurality of reusable patterns defining the markup language representation of the digital content work.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the reusable patterns defines a markup language object portion of the markup language representation of the digital content work and has a number of user-selectable configuration options.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the content viewing and editing tools include a graphical user interface configured to permit what-you-see-is what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing of the markup language representation of the digital content work.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the WYSIWYG editing of the markup language representation of the digital content work includes drag and drop selection of the pattens as part of the mapping of portions of content from the static digital representation of the content work to the patterns defining the markup language representation of the digital content work.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the content viewing and editing tools include a graphical user interface configured to permit editing of source code of a markup language representation of the digital content work.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the content viewing and editing tools include:

a first viewing area for presenting a static digital representation of the digital content work; and

a second viewing area for presenting a navigator for use in creating a markup language representation of the digital content work from the static digital representation of the digital content work by specifying mappings of portions of content from the static digital representation of the content work to one or more patterns defining the markup language representation of the digital content work.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the content viewing and editing tools include a search tool that, responsive to user-designation of a markup language element, is configured to retrieve and present a set of objects of a markup language version of the digital content work within a single view on a display of a computer system, wherein each of the objects comprises a media object and, unless otherwise specified, all objects of the markup language version of the digital content work are searched for corresponding markup language elements in response to the user designation thereof

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the search tool is configured to permit filtering of the search across specified elements of the digital content work.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the search tool is configured to permit limiting of the search to cascading style sheet selections.

14. A method of creating a markup language representation of a digital content work comprising defining, responsive to user input, a markup language representation of a digital content work as a collection of a plurality of patterns, each pattern defining a markup language object having a number of user-specified configuration options, at least some of the markup language objects including semantic metadata describing respective content included within the objects in terms of its substance rather than its form or appearance;

and publishing the markup language representation of the digital content work in one or more format-dependent representations for display on respective ones of a plurality of target devices or media.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the markup language representation of the digital content work is developed through mappings that specify portions of a static digital representation of the content work to be converted to markup language representations of the digital content work, each mapping invoking a reusable pattern defining a markup language object portion of the markup language representation of the digital content work and having a number of user-selectable configuration options.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein publication of the markup language representation of the digital content work includes including in the one or more format-dependent representations of the digital content work both cross-platform compatible objects renderable by multiple ones of a plurality of target devices or media and device-specific renderable objects suitable for fewer than all of the target devices or media.