System and method for updating a master slide of a presentation

• US 10,423,713 B1
• Filed: 10/15/2014
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Cooper, Sarah, Thomas, Michael Owen, Holtzblatt, Shoshana, Surie, Ajay Dev
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US14/514,551
• Time in Patent Office: 1,805 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

In a collaborative presentation document, changes may be propagated throughout related elements in dependent slides. When making a change to an individual slide in the presentation, if any master-dependent elements are found to exist in the presentation, an option is provided to allow the change to be added as a master element in the presentation. The added master element can be applied to the master slide and any resulting dependent slides.

Claims

1. A method for updating a master element of a presentation, the method comprising:

causing, by a server of a cloud computing service, display of a user interface comprising a first slide and a first option to edit an element of the first slide in a local copy of the presentation in a regular slide editing mode;

receiving, at the server of the cloud computing service from a user on a client computer, a selection of the first option to edit the element of the first slide in the local copy of the presentation, wherein the selection of the first option causes an edit to the element of the first slide;

determining, at a processor on the server, whether the element edited by the selection of the first option has a dependent relationship with the master element of the presentation, wherein the master element is included in a second slide and defines a certain structure for content of a plurality of different presentations;

in response to determining that the element edited in the first slide by the selection of the first option has a dependent relationship with the master element in the second slide, causing the user interface to be modified to provide the user with a second option to update the master element in the second slide in the local copy of the presentation based on the edit to the element of the first slide in the local copy of the presentation while continuing to display the first slide in the regular slide editing mode;

storing the edit to memory in the cloud computing service;

in response to receiving a selection of the second option from the user of the client computer, causing the master element to be updated in the second slide based on the edit to the element of the first slide in the local copy of the presentation, wherein the second slide is located separately from the first slide in the local copy of the presentation; and

in response to updating the master element, causing the edit to be propagated to other elements in the local copy of the presentation that have the dependent relationship with the master element that is updated.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the second slide is a master slide of the presentation, and the second option comprises updating the master slide of the presentation.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the second option comprises updating a theme of the presentation.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the edit comprises adding an object to the first slide.

5. A system for updating a master element of a presentation, the system comprising:

a server of a cloud computing service in communication with a client computer, the server comprising a processor configured to;

cause, by the server of the cloud computing service, display of a user interface comprising a first slide and a first option to edit an element of the first slide in a local copy of the presentation in a regular slide editing mode;

receive, at the server from a user at the client computer, a selection of the first option to edit the element from the first slide in the local copy of the presentation, wherein the selection of the first option causes an edit to the element of the first slide;

determine, at the processor, whether the element edited by the selection of the first option has a dependent relationship with the master element of the presentation, wherein the master element is included in a second slide and defines a certain structure for content of a plurality of different presentations;

in response to determining that the element edited in the first slide by the selection of the first option has a dependent relationship with the master element in the second slide, causing the user interface to be modified to provide the user with a second option to update the master element in the second slide in the local copy of the presentation based on the edit to the element of the first slide in the local copy of the presentation while continuing to cause display of the first slide in the user interface in the regular slide editing mode;

store the edit to memory in the cloud computing service;

in response to receiving a selection of the second option from the user of the client computer, cause the master element to be updated in the second slide based on the edit to the element included in the first slide in the local copy of the presentation, wherein the second slide is located separately from the first slide in the local copy of the presentation; and

in response to updating the master element, causing the edit to be propagated to other elements in the local copy of the presentation that have the dependent relationship with the master element that is updated.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the second slide is a master slide of the presentation, and the second option comprises updating the master slide of the presentation.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the second option comprises updating a theme of the presentation.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein the edit comprises adding an object in the first slide.

9. A method for updating a master element of a master document structure, the method comprising:

causing, by a server of a cloud computing service, display of a user interface comprising a first document and a first option to edit an element of the first document that is stored locally on a client computer in a regular document editing mode, wherein the first document is not part of the master document structure;

receiving, at the server of the cloud computing service from a user on the client computer, a selection of the first option to edit the element of the first document, wherein the selection of the first option causes an edit to the element of the first document;

determining, at a processor on the server, whether the element is associated with the master element of the master document structure, wherein the master document structure comprises a plurality of master elements that define a certain structure for content of a plurality of different documents of a particular document type, and wherein the master element and the master element structure are associated with a second document;

in response to determining that the element edited in the first document by the selection of the first option is associated with the master element of the master document structure, causing the user interface to be modified to provide the user with a second option to update the master element associated with the second document of the master document structure based on the edit to the element included in the first document, while continuing to cause display of the first document in the user interface;

in response to receiving a selection of the second option from the user of the client computer, causing the master element associated with the second document of the master document structure to be updated based on the edit to the element included in the first document that is not part of the master document structure; and

in response to updating the master element, causing propagation of the update to other elements in the first document that have a dependent relationship with the master element that is updated.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the master element comprises a template, a style, or a placeholder object.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the second option comprises updating an image in the master document structure.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the second option comprises updating a theme of the master document structure.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the edit comprises adding an object in the first document.

14. The method of claim 9 wherein a structure of content of the second document is defined by the master document structure.

15. The method of claim 9 wherein the element comprises a footer object or a header object and the edit comprises modifying the footer object or the header object of the first document.

16. A system for updating a master element of a master document structure, the system comprising:

a server of a cloud computing service in communication with a client computer, the server comprising a processor configured to;

cause, by the server of the cloud computing service, display of a user interface comprising a first document and a first option to edit an element of the first document that is stored locally on a client computer in a regular document editing mode, wherein the first document is not part of the master document structure;

receive, at the server from a user on the client computer, a selection of the first option to edit the element of the first document, wherein the selection of the first option causes an edit to the element of the first document;

determine, at the processor, whether the element is associated with the master element of the master document structure, the master document structure comprises a plurality of master elements that define a certain structure for content of a plurality of different documents of a particular document type, and wherein the master element and the master element structure are associated with a second document;

in response to determining that the element edited in the first document by the selection of the first option is associated with the master element of the master document structure, causing the user interface to be modified to provide the user with a second option to update the master element associated with the second document of the master document structure based on the edit to the element included in the first document, while continuing to cause display of the first document in the user interface;

in response to receiving a selection of the second option from the user of the client computer, cause the master element associated with the second document of the master document structure to be updated based on the edit to the element included in the first document that is not part of master document structure; and

in response to updating the master element, cause propagation of the update to other elements in the first document that have the dependent relationship with the master element that is updated.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the master element comprises a template, a style, or a placeholder object.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the second option comprises updating an image in the master document structure.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the second option comprises updating a theme of the master document structure.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the edit comprises adding an object in the first document.

21. The system of claim 16 wherein a structure of content of the second document is defined by the master document structure.

22. The system of claim 16 wherein the element comprises a footer object or a header object and the edit comprises modifying the footer object or the header object of the first document.