Package file presentation including reference content

• US 9,448,976 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Dulaney, Marissa, Swineford, Randy L., Poling, Amy, Walsh, Daniel, McAfee, Robert K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Tadeese
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hope, Darrin
• Application Number:
  US12/123,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20140032482A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,045 Days
• Field of Search: 715/751, 715/775, 715/234, 715/235
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces

Abstract

Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures for presentation of package files including a reference content item. Some embodiments include receiving a reference content item, such as an image, map, or calendar, and mappings of package files to locations within the reference item for display. Such embodiments may then publish the package file. Some other embodiments include generating visual representations of package files including a reference content item and one or more content items mapped to locations within a reference content item. Such a visual representation may include a view of the reference content item and a graphical element representative of the content item at the mapped location within the view of the reference content item.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a plurality of display elements of a package file, a first display element of the plurality of display elements being representative of a content file within the package file;

identifying a mapping of the first display element to a contextually relevant location within a reference content item of the package file based on location metadata included in the package file, the reference content item comprising a background image;

presenting the reference content item of the package file within a user interface; and

presenting a representation of the mapping of the first display element, representative of the content file, to a location relative to the reference content item that is indicative of subject matter associated with the first display element;

wherein the plurality of display elements, the reference content item, the content file, and the location metadata of the package file are embedded within the package file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference content item includes an animation responsive to received user input to modify display of the animation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the reference content item is a Computer Aided Drafting image of an assembly.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference content item is an image and the first display element is mapped to a portion of the image.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the content file, represented by the first display element, provides detail information relevant to the mapped portion of the image.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a selection of the first display element within the reference content item; and

presenting the content file represented by the display element within the user interface.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the package file is a page description language file.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference content item includes audio.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the location metadata that is embedded within the package file comprises an X, Y coordinate pair mapping to an image location.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the content file that is embedded within the package file based on a user selection of the first display element in the user interface.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the package file is a page description language document.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed by a page description language document reader application running on an operating system.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the package file includes assignments between each content file of a plurality of content files embedded in the package file, and a respective one of the plurality of display elements in the package file.

14. A method comprising:

receiving a package file that has embedded therein a reference content item, a plurality of display elements, each display element representative of a mapped content item, a plurality of the mapped content items, location metadata defining addressable locations within the reference content item, and a respective mapping for each of the plurality of display elements to a respective addressable location of the addressable locations of the reference content item; and

presenting a view of the package file by;

presenting the reference content item;

determining for each display element of the plurality of display elements, a respective display location of the display element relative to the reference content item as a function of the respective addressable location in the respective mapping for the display element; and

presenting each display element of the plurality of display elements at the respective display location determined for the display element.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the reference content item is a graphical reference image, the plurality of display elements are graphical display elements, and the presenting of the package file includes generating a graphical user interface in which the plurality of graphical display elements are displayed relative to the graphical reference image at the respective display location for each of the graphical display elements.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the graphical reference image is an item reference image representative of an item, and the respective display location of each display element is indicative of a contextual relevance of the mapped content item associated with the display element.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the reference content item is contextually relevant to the content of the plurality of mapped content items, and wherein the respective display location of each display element is indicative of subject matter of the mapped content item associated with the display element.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the addressable locations comprise geospatial data defining a latitude and longitude with regard to an animation, the reference content item comprising the animation and the respective mapping for each display element defines a latitude and longitude where the display element is to be located relative to the animation.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the respective mapping is a longitude and a latitude.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the reference content item comprises an animation, the addressable locations comprise regions defined with regard to data represented within the animation, and the respective display location for each display element is determined with regard to the regions.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the addressable locations comprise temporal data defining temporal locations relative to a temporal reference image representative of a temporal sequence, the reference content item comprising the temporal reference image and the respective mapping for each display element specifying one of the temporal locations where the display element is to be located relative to the temporal reference image.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the respective mapping is a date.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the addressable locations are user defined.

24. The method of claim 14, wherein the mapped content item is a content file for each of the plurality of display elements.

25. The method of claim 14, wherein the package file is a PDF document.

26. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, with instructions thereon, which when executed, cause a computer to:

receive a selection of a reference content item including data defining locations within the reference content item;

receive a content item, the content item including data identifying a position within the reference content item that indicates a geographical location associated with the content item;

map the content item to the location within the reference content item as a function of the data identifying the location within the reference content item;

generate and publish a package file in a single package file data structure having embedded therein at least the reference content item, the content item including data identifying the position within the reference content item that indicates a geographical location associated with the content item, and the mapping of the content item to the location within the reference content item, wherein the mapping of the content item to the location within the reference content item included within the package file is used to automatically place an indication of the content item over the reference content item.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein publishing the package file includes storing the generated package file on a computer-readable medium.

28. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein the reference content item includes an animation displayable within a media presentation interface.

29. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 28, wherein the media presentation interface is a plug-in.

30. A system comprising:

a bus;

a memory coupled to the bus;

a processor coupled to the bus;

an authoring module stored in the memory and executable by the processor to;

receive a selection of a reference content item comprising a map;

present a view of the reference content item;

receive a content item and a mapping of the content item to a location within the view of the reference content item, the location indicating a geographical location within the map that is contextually relevant to the content item;

package the reference content item, the content item, and the mapping of the content item to the location within the reference content item into a package file; and

publish the package file, the published package file including, in a single package file data structure having embedded therein the reference content item and the content item; and

wherein;

the reference content item is a Computer Aided Drafting image of an assembly; and

the content item is an illustration of component of the Computer Aided Drafting assembly image.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein the authoring module is further executable by the processor to:

receive input identifying a location to which the package file is to be published.

32. The system of claim 31, further comprising:

a network interface coupled to the bus and further couplable to a network; and

wherein the location to which to publish the package is a network location accessible via the network interface.

33. The system of claim 30, wherein the reference content item includes an image and the mapping of the content item to the location within the view of the reference content item is a mapping to a location within the image.

34. The system of claim 30, wherein receiving the mapping of the content item to a location within the reference content item includes extracting a mapping from metadata included within the content item.