Differential dynamic content delivery with presentation control instructions

• US 8,001,454 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2004
• Issued: 08/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Watson, Thomas J., Schumacher, Daniel Mark, Burkhart, Michael John, Bodin, William Kress, Eisenhauer, Daniel G.
• Primary Examiner(s): RUTLEDGE, AMELIA L
• Application Number:
  US10/756,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20050154970A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,772 Days
• Field of Search: 715/500, 715/200, 715/234
• US Class Current: 715/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

Differential dynamic content delivery embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; receiving a prerecorded presentation control instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon the prerecorded presentation control instruction and in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; and presenting the selected structural element to the user. In typical embodiments, the prerecorded presentation control instruction has an associated time stamp.

Claims

1. A method of presenting content of a tagged document in a presentation session in accordance with a spoken document navigation instruction, the method comprising:

determining a document navigation action and a structural element tag associated with the spoken document navigation instruction;

selecting a next content of the tagged document that is tagged with a first instance of the structural element tag, said selecting in accordance with the document navigation action with respect to a currently presented content of the tagged document;

transmitting, via a network to a plurality of machines connected to the presentation session, indications to change from presenting the currently presented content to the next content;

determining a second document navigation action and a second structural element tag associated with a second spoken document navigation instruction;

selecting a second next content of the tagged document that is tagged with a first instance of the second structural element tag, said selecting the second next content being in accordance with the second document navigation action with respect to the next content; and

transmitting, via the network to the plurality of machines connected to the presentation session, indications to change from presenting the next content to the second next content in accordance with a different between a first time stamp associated with the spoken document navigation instruction and a second time stamp associated with the second spoken document navigation instruction.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the structural element tag indicates a structural element that comprises one of a page, bullet, header, title, paragraph, subtitle, row, column, cell, slide, and image.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the document navigation action indicates navigating to one of a next structural element, a previous structural element, and a structural element defined by a parameter in the spoken document navigation instruction.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said selecting the next content of the tagged document in accordance with the document navigation action with respect to the currently presented content element comprises selecting the next content based on a first value assigned to the first instance of the structural element tag and a second value of a second instance of the structural element tag that tags the currently presented content element.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

selecting a third next content also tagged with the first instance of the second structural element tag, wherein the third next content comprises a different version of the second next content;

determining that the second next content is tagged with a first instance of an attribute tag that is assigned a first attribute value;

determining that the third next content is tagged with a second instance of the attribute tag that is assigned a second attribute value;

determining that the plurality of machines are associated with user profiles that indicate the first attribute value and that a second plurality of machines are associated with user profiles that indicate the second attribute value, wherein the second plurality of machines are connected to the presentation session; and

transmitting, via the network to the second plurality of machines, indications to change from presenting the second next content to the third next content.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the attribute tag indicates one of company affiliation, department membership, technical ability, and security authorization level.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first time stamp indicates when the spoken document navigation instruction was recorded and the second time stamp indicates when the second spoken document navigation instruction was recorded.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining that the spoken document navigation action includes a parameter for the document navigation action, wherein said selecting the next content of the tagged document is also based on the parameter.

9. A computer program product for presenting content of a tagged document in a presentation session in accordance with a spoken document navigation instruction, the computer program product comprising a recording medium having program instructions recorded therein, the program instructions to cause, when executed, a machine to perform operations that comprise:

determining a document navigation action and a structural element tag associated with the spoken document navigation instruction;

searching, from a currently presented content in a direction indicated by the document navigation action, for a next content within the tagged document that is tagged with an instance of the structural element tag;

selecting the next content;

communicating, to a plurality of machines logged into the presentation session, indications to change from presenting the currently presented content to the next content;

determining that a second document navigation action and the structural element tag are associated with a second spoken document navigation instruction, wherein a sequence of spoken document navigation instructions comprise the spoken document navigation instruction and the second spoken document navigation instruction;

searching, from the next content in a direction indicated by the second document navigation action, for a second next content within the tagged document that is tagged with a second instance of the structural element tag;

selecting the second next content; and

communicating, to the plurality of machines logged into the presentation session, indications to change from presenting the next content to the second next content in accordance with a first and a second time stamp, wherein the first time stamp corresponds to recording of the spoken document navigation instruction and the second time stamp corresponds to the second spoken document navigation instruction.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the direction can comprise one of next, previous, forward, and backward.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein said operation of searching, from the currently presented content in the direction indicated by the document navigation action, for the next content within the tagged document that is tagged with the instance of the structural element tag further comprises searching for the next content with the instance of the structural element tag assigned a value that corresponds to a parameter associated with the navigation action, wherein the spoken document navigation instruction indicates the parameter.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the next content comprises a first version of the next content and a second version of the next content, wherein the first version of the next content is tagged with a first instance of an attribute tag assigned a first attribute value and the second version of the next content is tagged with a second instance of the attribute tag assigned a second value; and

determining that a first of the plurality of machines is associated with a first user profile that indicates the first value and a second of the plurality of machines is associated with a second user profile that indicates the second value,

wherein said communicating the indications to change from presenting the currently presented content to the next content comprises,

communicating a first of the indications to the first of the plurality of machines to change from presenting the currently presented content to the first version of the next content,

communicating a second of the indications to the second of the plurality of machines to change from presenting the currently presented content to the second version of the next content.

13. A system comprising:

a processor;

a network interface operable to receive a spoken document navigation instruction; and

a recording medium having program instructions recorded therein, the program instructions to cause, when executed, the processor to,

determine a document navigation action and a structural element tag associated with the spoken document navigation instruction;

search, from a currently presented content of a tagged document in a direction indicated by the document navigation action, for a next content within the tagged document that is tagged with an instance of the structural element tag;

select the next content;

communicate, to a plurality of machines logged into a presentation session, indications to change from presenting the currently presented content to the next content;

determine that a second document navigation action and the structural element tag are associated with a second spoken document navigation instruction, wherein a sequence of spoken document navigation instructions comprise the spoken document navigation instruction and the second spoken document navigation instruction;

search, from the next content in a direction indicated by the second document navigation action, for a second next content within the tagged document that is tagged with a second instance of the structural element tag;

select the second next content; and

communicate, to the plurality of machines logged into the presentation session, indications to change from presenting the next content to the second next content in accordance with a first and a second time stamp, wherein the first time stamp corresponds to recording of the spoken document navigation instruction and the second time stamp corresponds to the second spoken document navigation instruction.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the structural element tag indicates a structural element that comprises one of a page, bullet, header, title, paragraph, subtitle, row, column, cell, slide, and image.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the document navigation action indicates navigating to one of a next structural element, a previous structural element, and a structural element defined by a parameter in the spoken document navigation instruction.