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Method and system for transferring a slide presentation between computers

  • US 5,781,190 A
  • Filed: 06/05/1996
  • Issued: 07/14/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method in a computer system for transferring a slide presentation from a source computer to a destination computer, the slide presentation having a plurality of slides, one or more slides having a link that refers to linked data within an independent link source, the linked data forming a portion of the slide when displayed, the computer system having a slide presentation program that exposes behavior for manipulating the slide presentation to a client, the method comprising:

  • under control of a pack program executing at the source computer as a client of the slide presentation program,requesting the slide presentation program to open the slide presentation;

    after the slide presentation is opened,for each of the plurality of slides,requesting the slide presentation program to identify whether the slide contains a link; and

    when the slide contains a link, copying the link source referred to by the link to a transfer medium; and

    requesting the slide presentation program to adjust the link to refer to the copied link source;

    copying the slide presentation with the adjusted links to the transfer medium;

    under control of an unpack computer program executing at the destination computer,for each link source on the transfer medium, copying the link source from the transfer medium onto a storage medium of the destination computer;

    copying the slide presentation from the transfer medium onto the storage medium of the destination computer; and

    under control of the slide presentation program executing at the destination computer,presenting the slide presentation stored on the storage medium wherein each link of a slide of the slide presentation refers to a link source on the storage medium.

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