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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131464 | Sections of a Presentation having User-Definable Properties In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or m... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084656 | Method of Inserting Active Content in a Series of Electronic Presentation Slides A method of inserting active content in a series of electronic presentation slides and a computer program, computer readable storage media and a computer for the same is disclosed, the method includes the steps of providing an interface to enable a user to define a slid... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20110302494 | Smart Presentation Application Disclosed is a computer-implemented method to create a presentation having at least one sheet, where each sheet contains one or more visual elements, as well as a system and computer program embodied on a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes, in respons... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110265005 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for managing attachments are provided. The method comprises: receiving a request for a slideshow attachment, the slideshow attachment maintained in a memory; distilling at least one ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110246893 | PRESENTATION SLIDE PREPARATION Presenting a slide. Anticipating a slide to be selected for display. Receiving data of the anticipated slide in an unconstructed format. Constructing the anticipated slide from the received data. Caching the constructed slide. Pre-drawing the constructed slide in constr... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110181520 | VIDEO OUT INTERFACE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic device is provided having a video out mode for providing output to an external display coupled to the electronic device. The electronic device may automatically detect connection of the external display and select a display mode from a list of display mode... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110164043 | METHOD OF REMOTELY CONTROLLING A PRESENTATION TO FREEZE AN IMAGE USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A system and method are set forth for remotely controlling a presentation from a portable electronic device so as to freeze a slide on a remote projector to permit searching for a desired slide on the portable electronic device and then continuing the presentation when ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110167351 | METHOD OF REMOTELY CONTROLLING A PRESENTATION IN LOOP MODE USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A system and method are set forth for remotely controlling a presentation in a loop mode to allow the presentation to continue in the absence of a communication channel between the portable electronic device and remote presentation device. In particular, the portable el... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161821 | Method, system and apparatus for managing and interacting with multimedia presentations A method, system and device are provided for facilitating interacting with and management of a presentation involving one or more elements, such as, for example text, sound, pictures, graphics, video or combinations of these elements. The system, method and device provi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161817 | SLIDE KIT CREATION AND COLLABORATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIMEDIA INTERFACE A slide kit creation system and method allows reviewers of a slide kit to insert non-textual comments, such as audio comments, to be associated with selected slides. In one embodiment, audio comments are transmitted to a host computer by telephone, and may be posted on ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110066636 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING USER GENERATED SLIDE OBJECTS OVER A NETWORK In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to an address match in connection with a request for a target structured document, identifying one or more slide objects associated with the target structured document, the one or more slide objects defining a set of anc... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110022960 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPARING PRESENTATION SLIDE DECKS Disclosed herein are methods and systems for comparing two slide decks using a compare service. The compare service generates a comparison analysis for the two slide decks based on a comparison theme selected by the user. The result of the analysis is displayed in a com... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010629 | SELECTIVELY DISTRIBUTING UPDATES OF CHANGING IMAGES TO CLIENT DEVICES A network server for sharing images with mobile electronic devices having one or more processors, and image sharing client application, and an image distribution application. The image sharing client application is to be executed on one or more of the processors to rece... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100293330 | DISPLAYING TRANSITION IMAGES DURING A SLIDE TRANSITION One or more transition images are displayed during a transition period between a display of slides within a presentation. The displayed transition images include images of different slides that are contained within the presentation. The transition images provide the aud... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293470 | Hierarchically-Organized Control Galleries A computing system provides a graphical user interface having hierarchically-organized control galleries. The computing system displays the graphical user interface on a display device. The graphical user interface contains a document area and a control ribbon. The docu... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100223554 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individua... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100218100 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM A system for displaying slides of a presentation includes an editor module configured to generate a slide for the presentation based at least on content defined by a user. The system further includes a display module configured to generate display data for the presentat... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100131851 | Machine, Program Product, And Computer-Implemented Method For Randomized Slide Show Of Files A user specifies in a database a plurality of files for inclusion in a randomized slide show of files so that only specified files are to be displayed. The plurality of files and the database can be stored on a remote server with user access through an electronic commun... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100122171 | NON-LINEAR SLIDE PRESENTATION MANAGEMENT FOR SLIDE SHOW PROGRAMS A non-linear slide presentation management for slide show programs. In a first aspect, the invention provides a method for non-linear slide presentations, comprising: interrupting a topic sequence of a slide presentation being currently shown; placing a slide identifier... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100114985 | MANAGING THE CONTENT OF SHARED SLIDE PRESENTATIONS Systems, methods, and software applications for managing slide presentation content are described in the present disclosure. According to one embodiment, among many, a computer readable medium is configured to store instructions that are executable by a processing devic... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100064222 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individua... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100064223 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individua... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100042926 | THEME-BASED SLIDESHOWS A system and method for providing photographic slideshows with theme elements is provided. Each photograph and each theme element may be associated with different contextual information. The contextual information may include, for example, locations, time and date, cale... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100037140 | Sections of a Presentation having User-Definable Properties In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or m... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100031152 | Creation and Navigation of Infinite Canvas Presentation A system and method for creating and conducting presentations on a surface may include an authoring mode, a preprocessing mode and a presentation mode. During an authoring mode, a user may create a surface presentation. In response to a command to play the created prese... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090282340 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM A display control apparatus which realizes display capable of providing an overview of a group of thumbnail images and which includes an object controller (52a) for performing control to, when a viewer (52) allocates images to be displayed to a pred... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090210796 | System and Method for Dynamically Modifying a Sequence of Slides in a Slideshow Set During a Presentation of the Slideshow A system and method for dynamically modifying a sequence of slides in a slideshow set during a presentation of the slideshow are provided. Tag metadata may be provided for each slide of a slideshow set such that this tag metadata may be used to establish logical subsets... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090174567 | REMOTE CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING PLAYBACK OF MULTIMEDIA FILE The present invention relates to a remote controller for controlling playback of multimedia files. The remote controller includes a controller body and a receiver. By changing the inclination statuses of the controller body and pressing down the button on the external s... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090172548 | TACTILE TWO-WAY FEEDBACK TO REMOTE PRESENTATION CONTROLLER DEVICE TO INDICATE SLIDE ANIMATION STATUS A presentation controller device is disclosed. A presentation is constructed with slides. At least one slide can include animations. In a manual operation, the controller device vibrates or provides a tactile feedback before a final animation on a current slide. Clickin... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090172549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN SCREEN PRESENTATIONS ON A DISPLAY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method and apparatus for transitioning between screen presentations on a display of an electronic device includes determining a selection by a user of the electronic device of one of a plurality of dynamic transition themes, detecting an event that causes a transition... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090172550 | System and Method for Analyzing Time for a Slide Presentation A system and method for analyzing time for a slide presentation that permits a speaker to coordinate available time with the number of slides to be shown and a method of operating the same is described. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a time allocation tool ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090119597 | ACTION REPRESENTATION DURING SLIDE GENERATION Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090113307 | SLIDESHOW METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES ON A DISPLAY A method and system are disclosed for presenting digital images over a display in a slideshow presentation. The slideshow has an appearance of the images being hand-placed and for providing a more human feel to the presentation of digital images.... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090044123 | ACTION BUILDS AND SMART BUILDS FOR USE IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION A presentation application for animating objects placed on slides is provided. Using the presentation application, the user may add objects to slides of a presentation, and apply animations to the objects. The animations may include action builds (e.g., fundamental anim... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090037821 | System And Method For Electronic Presentations An electronic presentation system and method provides multiple display screens for presentation materials as well as permits dynamic annotations to presentation materials that do not permanently alter the presentation materials. In a multi-windowed display interface, a ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090006969 | Video microscopy system and multi-view virtual slide viewer capable of simultaneously acquiring and displaying various digital views of an area of interest located on a microscopic slide A slide viewer capable of simultaneous display of more than one representation of an area of interest of a slide is provided. The slide viewer includes a database containing at least two data files representing different representations for a same area of interest on on... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080256453 | INTEGRATED DIGITAL MEDIA PROJECTION AND PERSONAL DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM Disclosed is a projector and data processing method and system for recommending digital media content to a user. The method and system gather statistics about the preferences of the user and/or compare the user to population data to create recommendations in accord with... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080256454 | Selection of list item using invariant focus location A method to perform selection of a list item using an invariant selection location includes retrieving multiple data items to present for selection by a user. A single invariant selection location is recognized within a presentation window presented to the user. A subse... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080250321 | METHOD AND SOFTWARE FOR CREATING AN IMAGE FILE INCLUDING MULTIPLE STILL IMAGES AND SPECIAL EFFECTS Disclosed is a method of creating a pleasure image file comprising a plurality of images. The method comprises providing a plurality of still image files for use in creating a pleasure image file comprising a plurality of still images from the plurality of still image f... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080189616 | METHOD TO MANAGE SPEAKER NOTES IN A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SLIDE SHOW A method for managing speaker notes in a slide presentation is disclosed. A method for creating a plurality of speaker notes files to be used in support of a slide presentation includes: creating a first speaker notes file including a first plurality of speaker notes in... | 08/07/2008 |
