READING MODE FOR INTERACTIVE SLIDE PRESENTATIONS WITH ACCOMPANYING NOTES

• US 20140053071A1
• Filed: 08/16/2012
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Penner, Nathan Robert
• Granted Patent: US 9,460,416 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/732
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing interactive slide presentations with accompanying notes in a reading mode of a presentation application program. In accordance with some of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer-implemented method includes computer-implemented operations for providing a reading mode user interface that includes a presentation object including a slide placeholder and a notes placeholder. The method may also include displaying slide content within the slide placeholder in the reading mode user interface. The method may also include moving the presentation object out of a view and a new presentation object into the view in response to an input. The method may also include scaling the new presentation object.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising computer-implemented operations for:

providing, by a computer, a reading mode user interface comprising a presentation object, the presentation object comprising a slide placeholder and a notes placeholder; and

displaying, by the computer, slide content within the slide placeholder in the reading mode user interface.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the computer, an input to interact with the slide content in the reading mode user interface.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising manipulating, by the computer, the slide content in response to the input.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, by the computer, one or more characters within the notes placeholder of the presentation object.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising receiving, by the computer, an input to advance to a new presentation object, the new presentation object comprising a new slide placeholder and a new notes placeholder, the new notes placeholder comprising no characters.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising, in response to the input, moving the presentation object out of a view and the new presentation object into the view.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, further comprising scaling the new presentation object.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving, by the computer, an input to zoom into the slide placeholder; and

in response to the input, increasing a zoom level such that the slide placeholder is brought into a foreground, increases in size, and at least partially overlaps the notes placeholder.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing, by the computer, the reading mode user interface comprises providing, by the computer, the reading mode user interface further comprising a comment placeholder, and further comprising displaying, within the comment placeholder, one or more comments associated with one or more comment call-outs displayed within the slide placeholder.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising displaying, within the comment placeholder, a slide identifier and a comment number identifier, the comment number identifier providing a number of comments available in a slide identified by the slide identifier.

11. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

present, on a display that is in communication with the computer, a reading mode user interface comprising a presentation object that represents slide content and presentation notes, the presentation object comprising a slide placeholder configured to show the slide content and a notes placeholder configured to show the presentation notes;

receive an input to interact with the slide content; and

manipulate the slide content in response to the input.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to present the reading mode interface comprise instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to present the notes placeholder adjacent to the slide placeholder.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the input to interact with the slide content comprises an operation to manipulate playback of a video contained within the slide content, an operation to manipulate playback of a sound contained within the slide content, a selection of a hyperlink contained within the slide content, or an operation to manipulate playback of one or more animations associated with one or more objects contained within the slide content.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

receive an input to advance from the presentation object to a new presentation object; and

in response to the input to advance from the presentation object to the new presentation object, move the presentation object out of a view and the new presentation object into the view.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the new presentation object comprises a new slide placeholder and a new notes placeholder, the new slide placeholder comprising new slide content and the new notes placeholder being empty.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to scale the new slide placeholder to a larger size than the slide placeholder upon moving the new presentation object into the view.

17. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

present, on a display that is in communication with the computer, a slide presentation in a reading mode user interface of a presentation application program, the reading mode user interface being configured to represent, for each slide in the slide presentation, slide content in a slide placeholder and, if available, presentation notes in a notes placeholder as a cohesive presentation object; and

provide a navigation model for switching between the cohesive presentation objects.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

receive, via the reading mode user interface, an input to utilize the navigation model to switch from a first slide in the slide presentation to a second slide in the slide presentation, the first slide being represented as a first cohesive presentation object comprising first slide content in a first slide placeholder and first presentation notes in a first notes placeholder, and the second slide being represented as a second cohesive presentation object comprising second slide content in a second slide placeholder; and

in response to the input, advance the slide presentation from the first slide to the second slide by moving the first cohesive presentation object out of a view and the second cohesive presentation object into the view.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to scale the second slide placeholder to be larger than the first slide placeholder.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

receive, via the reading mode user interface, an input to utilize the navigation model to switch from the second slide in the slide presentation to a third slide in the slide presentation, the third slide being represented as a third cohesive presentation object comprising third slide content in a third slide placeholder and third presentation notes in a third presentation notes placeholder;

in response to the input, advance the slide presentation from the second slide to the third slide by moving the second cohesive presentation object out of the view and the third cohesive presentation object into the view; and

scale the third slide placeholder to be smaller than the second slide placeholder to accommodate the third notes placeholder in the view.