GENERATING MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

• US 20070294619A1
• Filed: 06/16/2006
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Krishnaswamy, Vinay, Oker, James E., Soin, Ravipal S., Rajkumar, Ramraj, Comeau, Stephane, Schreiber, Patrick
• Granted Patent: US 8,261,177 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/704
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A presentation application provides for authoring and playback of a presentation. A presentation is an interactive collection of activities. An activity may include one or more frames, wherein each frame includes one or more modules. A module may consist of media content such as video, text, images or other content. A user may provide input during playback of the presentation. In response to the input, the module or frame receiving the input may call an action on a presentation activity, frame or module, thereby allowing the user to navigate through the presentation and accomplish objectives. When authoring a presentation, a user may associate a user initiated event or internally generated event with a module action. Authoring may be performed through an authoring interface provided by an authoring tool. The authoring tool may save a presentation as a package which can be distributed.

Claims

1. A method for generating a presentation, comprising:

providing an interface for authoring a media presentation;

configuring one or more presentation modules within two or more frames of the presentation through the interface;

receiving input to generate script code for one of the one or more presentation modules; and

inserting script code into a presentation file associated with the media presentation, the inserted script code derived from the received input, said step of inserting script code performed in response to said step of receiving input.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of configuring one or more presentation modules includes:

creating actions that can be called on a presentation module.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of configuring one or more presentation modules includes:

configuring a presentation module to persist in two or more frames.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of linking the first presentation module includes:

configuring an event associated with the first presentation module; and

associating a call by the first presentation module to the second presentation module in response to the event.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the event is a user selection of the presentation module.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the event is selected from a list in the interface.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the call invokes the second presentation module in the second frame.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the call is selected from a list in the interface.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

configuring transitions between two or more frames.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

configuring a persistent background frame or a persistent foreground frame.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

packaging the presentation into a presentation file.

12. One or more processor readable storage devices having processor readable code embodied on said processor readable storage devices, said processor readable code for programming one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

loading a presentation having two or more frames, each frame having one or more presentation modules, wherein at least one presentation module in one frame is linked to another presentation module in another frame;

initiating playback of the presentation;

receiving user input selecting one of the two or more modules;

executing script associated with the selected module in response to said step of receiving user input; and

performing an action associated with the selected module in response to executing the script.

13. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 12, wherein said step of loading the presentation includes:

identifying an initial frame and a persistent frame within the presentation.

14. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 12, wherein said step of initiating playback includes:

presenting an initial frame of the presentation to a user.

15. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 12, further comprising:

detecting a system initiated presentation module event; and

calling an action associated with the event.

16. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 12, wherein said step of navigating between frames of the presentation includes:

generating a user initiated presentation module event in response to executing the script;

calling an action associated with the event

17. One or more processor readable storage devices according to claim 12, the method further comprising:

recording information associated with user input received during presentation playback.

18. A method for generating a presentation, comprising:

providing an interface for authoring a media presentation;

configuring one or more presentation modules within two or more frames of the presentation through the interface;

linking a first presentation module in a first frame to a second presentation module; and

configuring a rule for persisting data associated with user input received during playback of the presentation.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said step of configuring a rule includes:

storing user input received during playback of an activity.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein said step of configuring a rule includes:

selecting content to provide to a user in one of the two or more frames in response to results of a user quiz.