US 6,789,105 B2Granted

Multiple-editor authoring of multimedia documents including real-time video and time-insensitive media

AssigneeCollaboration Properties, Inc.

InventorsLester F. Ludwig, J. Chris Lauwers

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Abstract

A system and method for employing multiple editors in the creation of self-presenting multimedia documents that include real-time video and time-insensitive media such as graphics and text. The real-time and time-insensitive media may be synchronized or otherwise driven by timing information. The real-time video may be recorded in a studio, at a workstation, or via other facilities, edited there or elsewhere, and brought together with separately authored time-insensitive media (such as graphics and text) created with a entirely different and unrelated editor dedicated to such media. In addition to such formal information presentation, the multimedia document may also accurately record an ad hoc video teleconference involving datasharing. Further, the multimedia document can take the form of a multimedia mail message.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A method for providing networked multimedia collaboration, said method comprising:

A) providing audio information and video information from captured audio and video at
i) at least one of a plurality of workstations;
B) editing different information types separately
i) by a dedicated editor for each information type including providing multimedia document structure information;
and
C) compiling information belonging to two or more of said information types as a multimedia document including a time insensitive part selected from the group consisting of text and image and a time sensitive part selected from the group consisting of video and audio,
wherein said editing and said compiling with said multimedia document structure information enable display of said multimedia document including said time insensitive part and said time sensitive part without user intervention to move between media types.

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Facts

Application: 10/120,559Filed 9 Apr 2002 · division
Priority: 1 Oct 1993
Published: US 2003/0225832 A14 Dec 2003
Granted: 7 Sep 2004
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06Q 10/10
Administration; Management: office automation; Time management
G06F 15/16
Digital computers in general ; Data processing equipment in general: combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an…
H04L 12/1818
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to…
Y10S 707/99933
Database or file accessing: query processing, i.e. searching

Family

Application08/131,523Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Oct 1993
Application08/660,461Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Jun 1996
Application08/994,848Parent of this division · filed 19 Dec 1997
Application09/702,737Parent of this division · filed 1 Nov 2000
Application09/879,460Parent of this division · filed 11 Jun 2001
US 2003/0225832 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Dec 2003
US 6,237,025 B1Parent of this division
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