Differential dynamic content delivery with indications of interest from non-participants

• US 8,230,331 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2008
• Issued: 07/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bodin, William K., Burkhart, Michael J., Eisenhauer, Daniel G., Schumacher, Daniel M., Watson, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vaughn, Gregory J
• Application Number:
  US12/268,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20090063944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,351 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/205, 715/209, 715/234, 715/237, 715/255
• US Class Current: 715/237
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/433 using audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Session document for a presentation, where the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element having an associated indication of interest from a user not participating in the presentation; presenting the selected structural element to a user participant; and notifying the user not participating of the presentation of the selected structural element. Typical embodiments also include recording for the user not participating the associated indication of interest in the selected structural element. Typical embodiments also include notifying the user not participating of the identity of at least one user participant. Typical embodiments also include allowing the user not participating to participate in the presentation.

Claims

1. A system for differential dynamic content delivery, the system comprising at least one computer processor, at least one computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, and computer program instructions disposed within the computer memory capable of:

identifying a presentation document for a presentation, the presentation document including a structured document comprising one or more structural elements;

creating a presentation grammar for the structured document, wherein the presentation grammar for the structured document includes grammar elements each of which is associated with a presentation action for said one or more structural elements of the structured document;

associating structural elements in the presentation document classified with classification identifiers;

identifying a user participant for the presentation, the user having a user profile comprising user classifications;

filtering the structured document in dependence upon the user classifications and the classification identifiers to create a session document associated with the user, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document;

receiving from the user participating in the presentation a key phrase for invoking the presentation action;

associating the key phrase with a presentation control instruction, wherein the presentation control instruction includes a presentation action identifier associated with the user classifications;

in response to receiving the key phrase spoken by the user, selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon the presentation action identifier, the user being authorized to receive the selected classified structural element based on said user classifications; and

presenting the selected structural element to the user based on the user classifications in said user profile and the key phrase spoken by the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer program instructions further comprise a voice response grammar associated with the user, the voice response grammar comprising a plurality of key phrases including said key phrase, the plurality of key phrases each being respectively associated with one of a plurality of presentation actions.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the key phrase is associated with an optional parameter for controlling presentation of the selected structural element to the user, the computer program instructions disposed within the computer memory further being capable of:

determining that the optional parameter was received along with the key phrase spoken by the user.

4. The system of claim 3, the computer program instructions disposed within the computer memory further being capable of:

parsing the key phrase and the optional parameter against the voice response grammar to determine a one of the plurality of presentation actions associated with the key phrase and the optional parameter.

5. The system of claim 1, the computer program instructions disposed within the computer memory further being capable of:

inserting the classification identifiers into the structured document, the classification identifiers indicating authorization of the user to access the one or more structural elements.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the inserting of the classification identifiers into the structured document comprises:

manually editing the structured document to insert the classification identifiers at appropriate locations in the structured document to classify the one or more structural elements.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation action identifier is selected from a group consisting of PgDn, PgUp, goToPage, nextParagraph, nextHeading, prevBullet, and goToSubtitle.

8. A computer program product for differential dynamic content delivery, the computer program product embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising non-transitory computer-implementable instructions capable of:

identifying a presentation document for a presentation, the presentation document including a structured document comprising one or more structural elements;

creating a presentation grammar for the structured document, wherein the presentation grammar for the structured document includes grammar elements each of which is associated with a presentation action for said one or more structural elements of the structured document;

associating structural elements in the presentation document with classification identifiers;

identifying a user participant for the presentation, the user having a user profile comprising user classifications;

filtering the structured document in dependence upon the user classifications and the classification identifiers to create a session document associated with the user, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document;

receiving from the user participating in the presentation a key phrase for invoking the presentation action;

associating the key phrase with a presentation control instruction, wherein the presentation control instruction includes a presentation action identifier associated with the user classifications;

in response to receiving the key phrase spoken by the user, selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon the presentation action identifier, the user being authorized to receive the selected classified structural element based on said user classifications; and

presenting the selected structural element to the user based on the user classifications in said user profile and the key phrase spoken by the user.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer-implementable instructions further comprise a voice response grammar associated with the user, the voice response grammar comprising a plurality of key phrases including said key phrase, the plurality of key phrases each being respectively associated with one of a plurality of presentation actions.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the key phrase is associated with an optional parameter for controlling presentation of the selected structural element to the user, the computer-implementable instructions further being capable of:

determining that the optional parameter was received along with the key phrase spoken by the user.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, the computer-implementable instructions further being capable of:

parsing the key phrase and the optional parameter against the voice response grammar to determine a one of the plurality of presentation actions associated with the key phrase and the optional parameter.

12. The computer program product of claim 8, the computer-implementable instructions further being capable of:

inserting the classification identifiers into the structured document, the classification identifiers indicating authorization of the user to access the one or more structural elements.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the inserting of the classification identifiers into the structured document comprises:

manually editing the structured document to insert the classification identifiers at appropriate locations in the structured document to classify the one or more structural elements.

14. A method of differential dynamic content delivery, the method comprising:

identifying a presentation document for a presentation, the presentation document including a structured document comprising one or more structural elements;

creating a presentation grammar for the structured document, wherein the presentation grammar for the structured document includes grammar elements each of which is associated with a presentation action for said one or more structural elements of the structured document;

associating structural elements in the presentation document with classification identifiers;

identifying a user participant for the presentation, the user having a user profile comprising user classifications;

filtering the structured document in dependence upon the user classifications and the classification identifiers to create a session document associated with the user, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document;

receiving from the user participating in the presentation a key phrase for invoking the presentation action;

associating the key phrase with a presentation control instruction, wherein the presentation control instruction includes a presentation action identifier associated with the user classifications;

in response to receiving the key phrase spoken by the user, selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon the presentation action identifier, the user being authorized to receive the selected classified structural element based on said user classifications; and

presenting the selected structural element to the user based on the user classifications in said user profile and the key phrase spoken by the user.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein a voice response grammar is associated with the user, the voice response grammar comprising a plurality of key phrases including said key phrase, the plurality of key phrases each being respectively associated with one of a plurality of presentation actions.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the key phrase is associated with an optional parameter for controlling presentation of the selected structural element to the user, the method further comprising:

determining that the optional parameter was received along with the key phrase spoken by the user.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

parsing the key phrase and the optional parameter against the voice response grammar to determine a one of the plurality of presentation actions associated with the key phrase and the optional parameter.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

inserting the classification identifiers into the structured document, the classification identifiers indicating authorization of the user to access the one or more structural elements.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the inserting of the classification identifiers into the structured document comprises:

manually editing the structured document to insert the classification identifiers at appropriate locations in the structured document to classify the one or more structural elements.