US 8,028,227 B1Granted

Method, apparatus, processor-readable media and signals for acquiring and presenting acquired multimedia content

AssigneeNortel Networks Limited

InventorsLaura L. Mahan, Kelly K. Forbes, Shaun Illingworth

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Abstract

The present invention provides a method, apparatus, processor-readable medium and signals for building a presentation by receiving user input identifying multimedia content to be included in a presentation and copying multimedia content identified by such user-input from a multimedia source to memory, for access by a presentation application. Copying may involve copying multimedia content from an application while the application is using the multimedia content. There is also provided a method, apparatus, processor-readable medium and signals for providing a presentation by identifying multimedia content previously identified by a user as to be included in the presentation and accessing and presenting at least some of the multimedia content previously identified by the user.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A method of building a presentation, the method comprising:

using a multimedia content application, accessing a page containing multimedia content from a multimedia source, wherein the multimedia content includes at least one tag;
automatically identifying multimedia content on the page by parsing the page using the at least one tag;
displaying an identifier for the page containing the multimedia content, a window for previewing at least some of the identified multimedia content on the page, and a window for entry of user-definable notes associated with at least some of the identified multimedia content on the page;
selecting by a user at least some of the multimedia content identified on the page while the page is being accessed or used by the multimedia content application;
and
using a presentation application, copying
from the multimedia source, at least some of the multimedia content selected by the user based on the at least one tag,
any user-definable notes entered by the user and associated with the at least some of the identified multimedia content on the page, and
the identifier for the page containing the multimedia content into at least one presentation folder located in a memory;
wherein the presentation application is configured to use information stored in the at least one presentation folder to build the presentation.

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An apparatus for building a presentation, the apparatus comprising:

at least one memory;
at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to
access a page containing multimedia content from a multimedia source, wherein the multimedia content includes at least one tag;
automatically identify multimedia content on the page by parsing the page using the at least one tag;
display an identifier for the page containing the multimedia content, a window for previewing at least some of the identified multimedia content on the page, and a window for entry of user-definable notes associated with at least some of the identified multimedia content on the page;
select by a user at least some of the multimedia content identified on the page while the page is being accessed or used by the at least one processor;
and
copy
from the multimedia source, at least some of the multimedia content selected by the user based on the at least one tag,
any user-definable notes entered by the user and associated with the at least some of the identified multimedia content on the page, and
the identifier for the page containing the multimedia content into at least one presentation folder located in a memory;
wherein the presentation is configured to be built based on information stored in the at least one presentation folder.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.