Method for presenting multimedia messages

• US 7,831,900 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2005
• Issued: 11/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: British Telecommunications PLC (BT Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Il-Do
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong; Stephen S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vaughn; Gregory J
• Application Number:
  US11/259,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20060156218A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,841 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/201, 715/203, 715/234, 715/236, 715/239, 715/240
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of 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 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

A method for presenting a multimedia message is disclosed. A layout rule is proposed to present a multimedia message without an SMIL document so that the multimedia message (e.g., Multipart.mixed type multimedia message, etc.) or an enclosure file (e.g., an enclosure file of Multipart.related type message, etc.) can be displayed in a sliding form although it does not have the SMIL document.

Claims

1. A method for presenting a multimedia message comprising:

receiving a multimedia message including a Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) document;

forming a first layout, to be used for presenting multimedia data included in the multimedia message, according to the SMIL document;

checking whether the received multimedia message has an enclosure file included in the multimedia message as an attachment in addition to the multimedia data included in the multimedia message, wherein the multimedia data is presentable according to the SMIL document and the attached enclosure file is not presentable according to the SMIL document;

if the received message has the enclosure file, forming a second layout according to a rule set in a controller of a device receiving the multimedia message;

inserting the second layout into the first layout; and

presenting the multimedia data and content of the enclosure file according to the first and second layouts, respectively.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the received multimedia message is a Multipart.mixed type message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the rule set in the controller comprises:

generating slides corresponding to the number of images included in the received message and inserting each image to each slide;

inserting text data included in the received message into the generated slides; and

inserting audio data included in the received message into the generated slides.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein if the received message includes video data, the controller additionally generates slides corresponding to the number of video data and inserts each video data to each slide.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the controller preferentially inserts the text data into a slide of an image.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein if there are more text data than the slides, a slide having only a text region is additionally generated, into which the text data is inserted.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the slide includes an image/video region and a text region.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the controller does not insert the audio data into the slide of the video.

9. A method for presenting a multimedia message comprising:

receiving a multimedia message including multimedia data and an enclosure file attached to the multimedia message;

making a first layout for presenting the multimedia data according to a Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) document associated with the received message;

forming a second layout for presenting the enclosure file according to a rule set in a controller of the device receiving the multimedia message;

inserting the second layout into the first layout; and

presenting contents of the multimedia data and the enclosure file according to the first and second layouts respectively.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the received multimedia message is a Multipart.related type message.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the rule set in the controller comprises:

generating slides corresponding to the number of images included in the enclosure file and inserting each image to each slide;

inserting text data included in the enclosure file into the generated slides; and

inserting audio data included in the enclosure file into the generated slides.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein if the enclosure file includes video data, the controller additionally generates slides corresponding to the number of video data and inserts each video data to each slide.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the controller preferentially inserts the text data into a slide of an image.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein if there are more text data than the slides, a slide having only a text region is additionally generated, into which the text data is inserted.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the slide includes an image/video region and a text region.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the controller does not insert the audio data into the slide of the video.

17. A method for presenting content included in a multimedia message, the method comprising:

determining a message type of a received multimedia message including multimedia data and an enclosure file attached to the multimedia message;

making a first layout for presenting the multimedia message according to a SMIL document;

making a second layout for presenting content in the enclosure file according to a rule set in a controller of a device receiving the multimedia message;

inserting the second layout into the first layout; and

presenting contents of the received message according to the first and second layouts.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein if the type of the received message does not include a Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language document, a controller makes a first layout according to the rule set internally.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein if the type of the received message includes a Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language document, the controller makes a second layout according to what the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language document of the received message defines.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the rule set in the controller comprises:

generating slides corresponding to the number of images included in the received message or in the enclosure file and inserting each image to each slide;

inserting text data included in the received message or in the enclosure file into the generated slides; and

inserting audio data included in the received message or in the enclosure file into the generated slides.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein if the received message or the enclosure file includes video data, the controller additionally generates slides corresponding to the number of video data and inserts each video data to each slide.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the controller preferentially inserts the text data into a slide of an image.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein if there are more text data than the slides, a slide having only a text region is additionally generated, into which the text data is inserted.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein the slide includes an image/video region and a text region.

25. The method of claim 20, wherein the controller does not insert the audio data into the slide of the video.