US 2003/0154277 A1Published application

Method and system for real-time generating, managing, and broadcasting multimedia events reports over communications networks

OwnerRabih Haddad, Christophe De Kervilerinventors

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Abstract

Method and system for generating, managing and broadcasting multimedia events reports over communications networks. The method comprises defining a model of the reports, implementing the model on a computer system, generating a user report of a current event to a user among the events by connecting a client system operated by the user to the computer system, registering an event title, date, time and place, and associating a time of the time scale with an action selected from predetermined key actions occurring during the current event in response to the user inputs by way of the user interface of the client system, storing the user report in the data storage device, and broadcasting the report over the network by way of the data communication system. The system includes a communications network and a computer system for implementing the method.

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1) A method for real-time generating, managing, and broadcasting multimedia events reports over communications networks comprising:

a first step of defining a model of said reports having at least an event model with building blocks including a representative set of pre-determined categories of said events, a set of predetermined key actions for each of said pre-determined categories, and a pre-determined time scale of said pre-determined key actions.
a second step of implementing said model on a computer system having at least data input means, data output means, data processing means, data storage means, and data communication means connected to at least a first network of said communications networks using at least a first protocol.
a third step of generating a user report of a current event of particular interest to a user among said events by connecting at least a first client system operated by said user to said computer system via at least said first network, selecting a current category among said pre-determined categories which best fits said current event according to said user's choice, registering an event title, an event date, an event time and an event place as a title, a date, a time and a place of said current event respectively, and associating a first current time of said time scale with a current action selected among said pre-determined key actions occurring during said current event in response to first user inputs by means of the user interface of said first client system.
a fourth step of storing said user report in said data storage means.
a fifth step of broadcasting said user report over at least said first network by means of said data communication means.

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23) A system for real-time generating, managing, and broadcasting multimedia events reports over communications networks comprising:

a first network of said communications networks.
a computer system having at least an applications server, a data base management system, and a communications server connected to said first network.
at least a first client system connected to said computer system via at least said first network having at least a graphical user interface and a communication software, display means, pointing means and typing means, wherein said interface includes:
a first drop-down list of pre-determined categories of said events for selecting a current category.
a first entry field for entering an event title.
a second, third and fourth drop-down list of respectively days, months and years for selecting the date of said event.
a fifth, sixth and seventh drop-down list of hours, minutes and time area for selecting the time of said event.
a eighth drop-down list of countries for selecting the country of said event.
a second entry field for entering the city of said event.
a ninth drop-down list of pre-determined key actions for selecting the current action of said event.
a third entry field for entering the current time of said current action.
first command buttons for validating first user entries upon user commands and transferring said first entries to said communications server using said communication software.
said applications server further processing said first and second entries for generating and broadcasting a user report according to data stored in said data base over at least said first network by means of said communications server.

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