Invoking an audio hyperlink
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWilliam K. Bodin, David Jaramillo, Jerry W. Redman, Derral C. Thorson
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for invoking an audio hyperlink. Embodiments include identifying a predetermined playback time in an audio file pre-designated as having an associated audio hyperlink; playing an audio indication of the audio hyperlink at the predetermined playback time; receiving from a user an instruction to invoke the audio hyperlink; identifying a URI associated with the audio hyperlink; and invoking the URI. The audio file may include an audio subcomponent of a file also including video.
Claims20
A method for invoking an audio hyperlink, the method comprising:
- identifying a predetermined playback time in an audio file pre-designated as having an associated audio hyperlink;
- playing an audio indication of the audio hyperlink at the predetermined playback time;
- receiving from a user an instruction to invoke the audio hyperlink;
- identifying a Uniform Resource Identifier (‘URI’) associated with the audio hyperlink;
- and
- invoking the URI.
A system for invoking an audio hyperlink, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:
- identifying a predetermined playback time in an audio file pre-designated as having an associated audio hyperlink;
- playing an audio indication of the audio hyperlink at the predetermined playback time;
- receiving from a user an instruction to invoke the audio hyperlink;
- identifying a Uniform Resource Identifier (‘URI’) associated with the audio hyperlink;
- and
- invoking the URI.
A computer program product for invoking an audio hyperlink, the computer program product embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising:
- computer program instructions for identifying a predetermined playback time in an audio file pre-designated as having an associated audio hyperlink;
- computer program instructions for playing an audio indication of the audio hyperlink at the predetermined playback time;
- computer program instructions for receiving from a user an instruction to invoke the audio hyperlink;
- computer program instructions for identifying a Uniform Resource Identifier (‘URI’) associated with the audio hyperlink;
- and
- computer program instructions for invoking the URI.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.