MEDIA PRESENTATION DRIVEN BY META-DATA EVENTS

• US 20080005652A1
• Filed: 06/30/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Krishnaswamy, Vinay, Schreiber, Patrick, Comeau, Stephane, Rajkumar, Ramraj
• Granted Patent: US 7,979,801 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media

Abstract

A presentation application provides for authoring and playback of multi-media presentations. Each page of the presentation may contain one or more types of media, including video, text, images and other media. A user may interact with the presentation during playback by selecting different instances of the media. Media elements of the presentation may be tagged with meta-data. Tagged media elements may generate a tag event associated with meta-data in response to being selected, perform an action when a tag event with a particular meta-data occurs, or both. When a user selects a tagged media instance during presentation playback, the tagged media generates a tag event with a particular meta-data. The application detects the tag event, determines one or more other media instances (if any) configured to perform an action upon detection of the tag event with the particular meta-data, and carries out the corresponding action.

Claims

1. A method for generating a presentation, comprising:

presenting two or more modules in a first frame of a presentation during playback of the presentation by a presentation application, wherein a first module of the two or more modules has a first tag;

receiving input selecting the first module during playback of the presentation;

triggering a tag event associated with the first tag in response to the selection of the first module;

sending tag data from the first module to an event handler of the presentation application in response to the tag event, the tag data including the first tag; and

calling a second module identified by the event handler to perform the action in response to the tag event.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a second module configured to perform an action in response to the event handler receiving tag data associated with the second module.

3. The method of claim 1, further including:

receiving tag data by the event handler; and

accessing a tag event-action table by the event handler in response to said step of receiving the tag data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of sending tag data includes:

sending the tag data from the module to a frame object; and

sending the received tag data from the frame object to the event handler.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving playback configuration input associated with a first tag; and

providing only modules and frames associated with the first tag during presentation playback.

6. 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:

providing an interface by a presentation application for authoring a presentation;

adding a first module and a second module to a first frame of the presentation through the authoring interface;

receiving a first input through the interface to select a first tag of one or more tags, the first tag selected to be added to a first module in the presentation, wherein selection of the first module during presentation playback triggers a first tag event, the selected first tag to be sent to an event handler of the presentation application during the first tag event; and

receiving a second input through the interface to select an action to perform by a second module during playback of the presentation, the action is to be performed by the second module in response to the event handler receiving the selected first tag.

7. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, wherein said step of receiving a first input includes:

providing a list of tags in an interface associated with the first module; and

configuring the first module with the first tag, the first tag contained in the list of tags.

8. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 7, wherein said step of receiving a first input includes:

receiving selection of the first tag in the list of tags from a user.

9. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, wherein said step of configuring a first module includes:

adding the first tag to a tag list.

10. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, wherein said step of receiving a first input includes:

configuring a first frame to have a first tag, the module contained in the first frame.

11. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, wherein the first tag includes a tag name and a tag type.

12. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, wherein said step of receiving a second input:

storing information associated with the first tag within an object representing the second module.

13. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, wherein said step of receiving a second input includes:

configuring the second module to perform a first action in response to the first tag event; and

configuring the second module to perform a second action in response to a second tag event.

14. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, wherein said step of receiving a second input includes:

configuring the second module to perform an action in response to an internal event.

15. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, further comprising:

configuring a frame to perform an action in response to the triggered tag event.

16. The one or more processor readable storage devices of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving display input associated with a first tag through the interface; and

displaying in the interface only the frames and modules of the presentation which are associated with the first tag.

17. An apparatus for processing data, comprising:

a communication interface;

a storage device; and

one or more processors in communication with said storage device and said communication interface, said one or more processors perform a method comprising;

receiving input selecting a first module of a plurality of modules provided in a presentation during playback of the presentation by a presentation application, the first module including tag data,

sending the tag data to an event handler of the presentation application in response to said step of receiving input,

selecting a second module of the plurality of modules by the event handler, the event handler configured to call the second module to perform an action in response to receiving the tag data by the event handler, and

performing the action by the second module in response to said step of selecting the second module.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, the method further comprising:

sending a call by the event handler to the second module to perform the action.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein said step of sending the tag data includes:

identifying tag data contained in the first module and associated with the received input; and

sending the identified tag data to the event handler.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein said step of selecting the second module includes:

accessing a set of actions by the event handler; and

selecting an action associated with the triggered tag event, the action associated the second module.