Method for editing multimedia pages on a terminal using pre-stored parameters of objects appearing in scenes

• US 8,639,845 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2004
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Gegout, Cdric
• Primary Examiner(s): Avellino, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): KHAN, AFTAB N
• Application Number:
  US10/589,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20090217157A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,637 Days
• Field of Search: 370/487, 709/236, 709/203, 709/204, 709/205, 726/28
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234318 by decomposing into 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 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs

Abstract

The invention relates to multimedia page editing via a terminal. A server supplies multimedia pages to the terminal in the form of object arrangement commands for objects identified by parameters. A method according to the invention comprises a preliminary step wherein the server transmits all or part of the object-related parameters as well as a store command, whereby the parameters are stored in a terminal memory; and a main step wherein the server transmits a simple parameter retrieval command for editing at least one multimedia page in which the above-mentioned object appears.

Claims

1. A method of editing multimedia pages on a terminal, comprising:

supplying, from a server to at least one terminal, multimedia pages in a form of object arrangement instructions, in order to arrange objects in a graphic scene, each object being identified by a set of associated parameters, wherein said object is a graphic object comprising at least one of an image, a sequence of images, a sequence of 2D synthetic images, or a sequence of 3D synthetic images;

transmitting, from the server, at least a part of said set of associated parameters, and an instruction to store said part of said set of associated parameters in a memory of the terminal; and

transmitting, from the server, an instruction to restore said part of said set of associated parameters previously stored in said memory of the terminal, to edit at least one multimedia page in which an object identified by said set of associated parameters occurs,

wherein the instruction to store indicates information on graphic nodes describing objects arranged in one or more graphic scenes and the instruction to restore indicates parameters previously stored in terminal memory to edit at least one multimedia page in which at least one of said objects occurs;

transmitting, from the server to the at least one terminal, an instruction to delete said part of said set of associated parameters, to edit at least one multimedia page in which said object identified by said set of associated parameters occurs;

wherein the instruction to delete includes the identifier of said memory area of the terminal to delete from said memory area the set of associated parameters; and

wherein the at least one terminal is a mobile terminal arranged to cooperate with a cellular network.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the instruction to restore is repeated to edit a number of multimedia pages in which said object occurs.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, from the server to the at least one terminal, an instruction to delete said part of said set of associated parameters, to edit at least one multimedia page in which said object identified by said set of associated parameters occurs.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said instructions are in the form of commands corresponding to programmable code.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said parameters comprise at least declarative attributes of an arrangement of the object in a multimedia page.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein said parameters also include an identifier of a memory area of the terminal allocated to store said attributes.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the restore instruction includes the identifier of said memory area to retrieve said attributes.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program product in the form of computer code, wherein said program product includes instructions for performing the method of claim 1 when said instructions are executed by a processor.

4. The method as claimed in 1, wherein said instructions are transmitted in packets from the server to the terminal.