Presentation builder

• US 6,938,032 B1
• Filed: 04/13/2000
• Issued: 08/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Conjoin, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Conjoin, Inc.
• Inventors: DiMare, Joseph, d'Arbeloff, Nicholas, Heath, Barbara
• Primary Examiner(s): Corrielus, Jean M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOO, ISAAC M
• Application Number:
  US09/549,056
• Time in Patent Office: 1,965 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707/513, 707/517, 345/335, 715/500, 715/501, 715515-517
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99937 Sorting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

The invention comprises a system for easily searching multiple multislide POWERPOINT™ presentations, selecting slides from each presentation, and combining them to form a new presentation. The user need not invoke POWERPOINT™ on the client in order to view the slides and create the new presention file for downloading in POWERPOINT™ format.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of storing and accessing a central database of metadata on multislide presentations, comprising:

adding an item of metadata to the database corresponding to a multislide presentation stored in a single file, where adding includes creating and saving to disk a plurality of single-slide presentation files outside the database, corresponding to the individual slides of the multislide presentation, and where the item comprises the number and location of the plurality of single-slide presentation files; and

accessing the plurality of single-slide presentation files to search for slides meeting a selected criterion.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adding a second item of metadata to the database corresponding to a second multislide presentation; and

creating a new presentation comprising selecting slides from each of the two multislide presentations, wherein the new presentation is stored in a single file.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a viewable file for each slide of the multislide presentation in the database, wherein accessing the plurality of single-slide presentations comprises viewing viewable files corresponding to the slides meeting the selected criterion.