System and method for dynamically publishing a document in collaboration space responsive to room aesthetics and input text

• US 7,421,659 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2002
• Issued: 09/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hulu LLC (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Estrada, Julio, Russo, Joseph A., Estrada, Miguel A., Shore, Maurice B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong; Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LE V
• Application Number:
  US10/331,855
• Publication Number:
  US 20030142126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,073 Days
• Field of Search: 715/765, 715/751
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2145 Inheriting rights or properties, e.g., propagation of permissions or restrictions within a hierarchy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including how many rooms it has, for example. Room type controls the appearance and content of rooms. A form manages the display of data notes. A form can contain fields for containing data and employ scripts to process and compute data. A page is the basic vehicle for content. Content is created using an or importing content from an external source. A member is also a data note, and each place contains its own member directory. A place is created and managed from a client browser in on-line mode and in offline mode with respect to a replicated copy of the space. Room security is independently managed, and security and aesthetics characteristics of subrooms selectively inherited. Room navigation and workflow processing is provided, as are forms creation and uploading from browser to server.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically publishing a document within collaboration space to a screen display including a work area and a side bar by dynamically rendering an image including text, text effects, and image effects by a graphics server from an input text string in combination with aesthetic information for a room in said collaboration space, comprising:

displaying a layout button in said side bar, said layout button being a graphical image obtained from said graphics server responsive to user input of a title of said document and aesthetic information for said side bar;

responsive to user selection of said layout button, receiving title text into said work are for display in said side bar as a graphic image, said title text being rendered as said graphic image in said side bar by first constructing a graphic image of said title text and then applying to said graphic image aesthetic effects for said side bar; and

further responsive to user selection of said layout button, dynamically receiving from said graphics server document text and graphics for display in said work area.

2. A method for dynamically publishing a document within collaboration space to a screen display including a work area, a side bar including a layout button, and an action bar including insert graphic, publish, cancel, and done buttons responsive to dynamic rendering of an image including text, text effects, and image effects by a graphics server from textual content input by a user in combination with aesthetic parameters for a room in said collaboration space, comprising:

responsive to user selection of said layout button, receiving in said work area a title, rendering said title in said side bar as a graphic image, and entering edit mode;

in edit mode receiving in said work area said textual content and said aesthetic parameters foor said document and dynamically rendering a document as a graphic image to include said textual content with said aesthetic parameters for said room;

responsive to user selection of said insert graphic button, presenting in said work area a create graphiv display for user selection of aesthetic parameters for an image;

responsive to user selection of said done button while in said create graphic display, creating and saving said aesthetic parameters and displaying said document as a graphic image in said work area in edit mode; and

responsive to user selection of said publish button, rendering said document as a graphic image in said work area in published mode;

said rendering of a said title and of said document as graphic images including constructing a background object, constructing a font object and from said font object a text graphic, applying graphic effects selectively including blurring, shadowing, and transparency to said text graphic, and combining to create a final graphic image.