Slideshow Builder and Method Associated Thereto

• US 20150006497A1
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joel Chetzroni
• Original Assignee: Joel Chetzroni
• Inventors: Chetzroni, Joel
• Granted Patent: US 10,025,857 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A slideshow builder for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device including a database for storing topics and a collection of slides, each slide being associated to one of said topics, a search engine adapted to communicate with the client device, in order to receive a search query therefrom, the search query containing a search criterion including one of said topics, the search engine being in communication with the database in order to extract a set of one or more slide among the collection of slides, which match the search criterion, and to build, based on the extracted set, a slideshow to be presented on the client device.

Claims

1. ) A slideshow builder for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device, comprising:

a database for storing topics and a collection of slides, each slide being associated to one of said topics;

a search engine adapted to communicate with the client device, in order to receive a search query therefrom, the search query containing a search criterion including one of said topics, the search engine being in communication with the database in order to extract a set of one or more slide among the collection of slides, which match the search criterion, and to build, based on the extracted set, a slideshow to be presented on the client device.

2. ) A slideshow builder for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 1, wherein the slides stored in the database are sourced from various presentations.

3. ) A slideshow builder for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 1, wherein the topics are organized in the database so as to be presented on the client device in the form of a tree, to allow a user to identify a topic to search.

4. ) A slideshow builder for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 1, wherein each slide in the database is associated to at least one of the following parameters:

a unique slide identifier;

a source presentation;

a presenter;

a date;

a relevance value in relation to the corresponding topic;

one or more other slide with which it must be paired, a disable value;

a type of slide;

a text content;

a graphical content;

a sound content and a duration. wherein each slide may be further associated to a popularity value, and an appreciation value.

5. ) A slideshow builder for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 4, where in the parameters are dynamic as they are updated depending on user behavior and/or user input.

6. ) A slideshow builder for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 5, wherein the parameters are also be updated dynamically by taking into account rating information input by viewers, and a default rating indicative of the relevance level may be associated with each slide.

7. ) A search engine for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device, the search engine being adapted to communicate with a database storing topics and a collection of slides, each slide being associated to one of said topics, the search engine comprising:

a client communication module for communicating with the client device, in order to receive a search query therefrom, the search query containing a search criterion including one of said topics;

an extractor for extracting a set of one or more slides among the collection of slides in the database, which match the search criterion;

and an assembler for assembling, based on the extracted set, a slideshow to be presented on the client device.

8. ) A search engine for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 7, wherein the slides stored in the database are sourced from various presentations.

9. ) A search engine for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 7, wherein the topics are organized in the database so as to be presented on the client device in the form of a tree, to allow a user to identify a topic to search.

10. ) A search engine for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 7, wherein each slide in the database is associated to at least one of the following parameters:

a unique slide identifier, a source presentation;

a presenter;

a date;

a relevance value in relation to the corresponding topic;

one or more other slide with which it must be paired, a disable value;

a type of slide;

a text content;

a graphical content;

a sound content and a duration, wherein each slide may be further associated to a popularity value, and an appreciation value.

11. ) A search engine for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 10, where in the parameters are dynamic as the parameters are updated depending on user behavior and user input.

12. ) A search engine for dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 11, wherein the parameters are also be updated dynamically by taking into account rating information input by viewers, and a default rating indicative of the relevance level may be associated with each slide.

13. ) A method of dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device, the method comprising the steps of:

a) receiving a search query at a search engine from the client device, the search query containing a search criterion including a topic;

b) extracting a set of one or more slide among a collection of slides stored in a database, which match the search criterion;

c) building a slideshow from the extracted set of one or more slides; and

d) sending the built slideshow to the client device for presentation on a user interface of the client device.

14. ) A method of dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 13, wherein the building of step (c) includes organizing the slideshow in accordance with a set of rules stored in a memory.

15. ) A method of dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 13, wherein the building of step (c) includes filtering the slides among the extracted set for example removing a slide, when it is indicated as disabled.

16. ) A method of dynamically building a slideshow to be presented on a client device as in claim 13, wherein the building of step (c) includes sorting the slides among the extracted set based on sorting data associated to each slide, the sorting data includes:

a relevance value, a popularity value, an appreciation value, a type associated to each slides, and a pairing parameter.