PROGRAMMED APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC DISPLAY OF PRESENTATION FILES

• US 20080313544A1
• Filed: 08/22/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daniel Nathan Zenchelsky, Lawrence Charles Kleinman
• Original Assignee: Daniel Nathan Zenchelsky, Lawrence Charles Kleinman
• Inventors: Kleinman, Lawrence Charles, Zenchelsky, Daniel Nathan
• Application Number:
  US12/196,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20080313544A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/731
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums

Abstract

A method of preparing and displaying a cumulative presentation and a presentation system are provided. A listing of available individual presentation files is provided through a user interface. Each of the presentation files comprises a plurality of presentation slides. A user is queried through the user interface to select presentation files from the available individual presentation files for inclusion in a cumulative presentation in a selected presentation order. A listing of presentation files selected by the user is displayed in the user interface. In response to a first command received from the user, a first slide from a first presentation from the cumulative presentation is provided to a display device for display thereon. In response to a second command received from the user, a second slide from the cumulative presentation is provided to the display device for display thereon.

Claims

1. A method of preparing and displaying a cumulative presentation, comprising the following steps:

providing through a user interface a listing of available individual presentation files, each of said presentation files comprising a plurality presentation slides;

querying a user through said user interface to select presentation files from said available individual presentation files for inclusion in a cumulative presentation in a selected presentation order;

displaying a listing of presentation files selected by said user in said user interface;

in response to a first command received from said user, providing a first slide from a first presentation from said cumulative presentation to a display device for display thereon; and

in response to a second command received from said user, providing a second slide from said cumulative presentation to the display device for display thereon.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said providing said listing step includes the step of receiving a listing of available individual presentation files from at least one input source and displaying said listing to said user in said user interface.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of copying said selected presentation files to local storage from respective input sources.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said first slide providing step comprises the following steps:

providing to a presentation software application an identification of said first presentation and a command to display said first slide; and

retrieving said first slide from said local storage.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of providing a second slide from said cumulative presentation comprises the following steps:

providing to said presentation software application a command to display said second slide; and

retrieving said second slide form said local storage.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising the step of providing to said presentation software application an identification of a second presentation if said second slide is part of said second presentation.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said first presentation file is a POWERPOINT presentation file and said presentation software application is a POWERPOINT software application.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising the steps of:

receiving said first command from a first input device configured to interface with said user interface; and

receiving said second command from a second input device.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising the steps of:

receiving a selection of said presentation files for inclusion in said cumulative presentation in response to said querying from a first input device configured to interface with said user interface; and

receiving said first and second commands from a second input device.

10. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of copying each of said selected presentation files from said cumulative presentation from said local storage to an external storage medium.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein each of said selected presentation files copied to said external storage medium is associated with a respective file name representative of its order in said cumulative presentation.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of copying to said external storage medium a list identifying an ordering of said selected presentations in said cumulative presentations.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said list is a linked list.

14. The method of claim 3, further comprising the steps of:

concatenating each of said presentations from said cumulative presentation into a single presentation file; and

copying said presentation file to an external storage medium.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

before said first slide is provided to said display device for display, querying said user through said user interface to modify said selected presentation order of said cumulative presentation; and

displaying a modified listing of presentation files in a modified selected presentation order in response to a modification command received from said user through said user interface, said modification command directing that a selected presentation file be added to said cumulative presentation, a selected presentation file be deleted from said cumulative presentation or presentation files from said cumulative presentation be reordered.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising the step of creating a linked list representative of said modified listing of presentations files.

17. The method of claim 1, before said first slide is provided to said display device for display, generating a linked list representing the presentation order of presentation files in said cumulative presentation defined by said user.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said second slide is a first slide included in a second presentation from said cumulative presentation, said method further comprising the step of;

in response to a third command received from said user, providing a last slide from a presentation immediately before said second presentation in said presentation order to said display device for display thereon, said last slide provided directly following display of said second slide.

19. A method of manipulating a presentation order of presentations in a cumulative presentation, said cumulative presentation comprising a plurality of presentation files each including a plurality of presentation slides, comprising the following steps:

providing to a user through a user interface a listing of presentations included in said cumulative presentation; and

without interrupting a presentation currently being displayed from said cumulative presentation, reconfiguring said presentation order of said presentations in said cumulative presentation in response to a reconfiguration command received from said user.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said reconfiguring step includes the following steps:

defining said cumulative presentation as a linked list of said plurality of presentation files; and

modifying said linked list to conform to a new presentation order defined by said user.

21-62. -62. (canceled)