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1. Well MODUIA MOUS 9PIIS sepi s p uononponul ruonejuesaJg uoneoiddy uonejueseg NI azz Deb gez VeL U S Patent Jan 31 2012 Sheet 9 of 9 US 8 108 777 B2 190 P di STORAGE MEDIUM 198 SLIDESHOW FILE 196 NETWORK 200 COMPUTING DEVICE COMPUTING DEVICE 192 194 FIG 9 US 8 108 777 B2 1 SECTIONS OF A PRESENTATION HAVING USER DEFINABLE PROPERTIES BACKGROUND Electronic presentations are used in a variety of contexts for conveying information For example a businessperson may use an electronic slide presentation to convey informa tion about business performance In another example a teacher may use an electronic slide presentation to teach a lesson Presentation applications executing on personal computers are used to author and present electronic presentations A typical presentation application presents an authoring inter face that enables a user to edit slides in a presentation The authoring interface may include a primary pane and a navi gation pane The primary pane contains an editable slide in the presentation The navigation pane may include a series of thumbnail images of each slide in the presentation A thumb nail image ofa slide is a smaller version of the slide A user of the presentation application can click on a thumbnail image of a slide to cause the primary pane of the authoring interface to display the slide for editing Electronic slide presentat
2. presentation to include a plurality of sections Each of the 56 References Cited sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 5 572 644 A 11 1996 Liaw 6 008 807 A 12 1999 Bretschneider 6 041 333 A 3 2000 Bretschneider 6 128 629 A 10 2000 Bretschneider 6 369 835 BL 4 2002 Lin sesssassveecsescerasndeesiose 715 726 6 396 500 B1 5 2002 Qureshi et al 345 473 6 473 749 Bl 10 2002 Smith 6 738 075 B1 5 2004 Torres etal 715 723 6 819 338 B2 11 2004 Heasman 6 834 371 Bl 12 2004 Jensen 6 938 032 B1 8 2005 Heath etal 1 1 7 073 127 B2 7 2006 Zhao ACCESS SLIDESHOW FILE GENERATE GRAPHICAL INTERFACE 44 DisPLAY GRAPHICAL INTERFACE RECEIVE INPUT RELATED TO PROPERTY OF SLIDESHOW SECTION PERFORM ACTION USING PROPERTY OF SLIDESHOW SECTION presentation In addition to the slides associated with each section each of the sections is associated with one or more properties having values that can be defined by an author of the presentation Because the values of the properties of the sections are user definable these properties may in some implementations ofthese techniques enable the author ofthe presentation to use the sections in ways not possible in pre sentation applications that merely use sections as a means of grouping thumbnail images of slides for navigation among slides in an authoring interface 17 Claims 9 Draw
3. the second set of access con trol data specifying that the user does not have a right to perform the action with respect to the second section and wherein the method further comprises receiving at the computing device a request from the user to perform the action with respect to the first section in response to receiving the request from the user to perform the action with respect to the first section determining by the computing device that the first set of access control data specifies that the user has the right to perform the action with respect to the first section and after determining that the user has the rightto perform the action with respect to the first section perform ing by the computing device the action with respect to the first section receiving at the computing device a request from the user to perform the action with respect to the second section and um 0 jak 5 20 25 30 40 45 50 55 60 65 14 in response to receiving the request from the user to perform the action with respect to the second section determining by the computing device that the second set of access control data specifies that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section and after determining that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section denying by the computing device the request to perform the actio
4. Output device interface 14 facilitates communication with an output device 18 that is capable of outputting information to the real world Input device interface 12 and output device interface 14 may be implemented in a variety of ways For instance input device interface 12 and or output device interface 14 may be implemented as a Universal Serial Bus USB inter face card a serial bus card a network interface e g an Ethernet card a WiFi adapter a WiMax adapter etc or another type of physical input device interface In some instances the functionality of input device interface 10 and the functionality of output device interface 12 may be imple mented by a single physical card Input device 16 may be wide variety of different types of devices For example input device 16 may be a mouse a trackball a touch sensitive screen a keyboard a keypad or another type of input device Output device 18 may also be a wide variety of different types of devices For example output device 18 may be a visual display unit such as a cathode ray display screen a liquid crystal display LCD screen a light emitting diode LED array a plasma screen or another type of device that is capable of outputting information to the real world Process ing unit 4 may present information on output device 18 in a variety of ways For example processing unit 4 and output device interface 14 may be connected to a motherboard of computing device 2 In this
5. first section determine that the first set of access control data specifies that the user has the right to perform the action with respect to the first section and after determining that the user has the right to perform the action with respect to the first section perform the action with respect to the first section and in response to receiving a request from the user to per form the action with respect to the second section determine that the second set of access control data specifies that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second sec tion and after determining that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section deny the request to perform the action with respect to the second section 16 A computer readable storage medium comprising a presentation file stored on a computer readable storage medium the presentation file containing a first set of section data the first set of section data defining a first section of an electronic slide presen tation the first set of section data identifying slides in the first section of the electronic slide presentation the first set of section data identifying a user defined title of the first section and the first set of section data identifying a first set of access control data the first set of access control data specifying that a first user has a right to perform an action with respect to the first
6. navigation among slides in an authoring interface As described below the properties of a section may include for example a title of the section aname ofan author of the section a set of access control data that specifies rights of users to perform actions with respect to the section and other properties The properties of sections may be used dur ing authoring of the presentation or during presentation of the presentation The uses of such properties during authoring of apresentation may include for example the ability to conceal or reveal thumbnail images of slides in a section by clicking on a title of the section the ability to reorder sections using titles of the sections the ability to use the name ofa section to print the slides in the section the ability to create a hyperlink to a section of a presentation the ability to associate search able keywords with sections and other uses The uses of such 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 2 properties during presentation of the presentation may for example include the ability to view names of sections of a presentation during presentation of the presentation and navi gating to a first slide in a section BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG 1 illustrates an example computing device FIG 2 illustrates an example operation that instructions of a presentation application may cause a processing unit of the computing device to perform FIG 3 illu
7. presentation file 20 includes sets of section data that contain user defined values of title properties of the sections of the presentation Referring to FIG 3 the 0 jak 5 40 45 55 60 65 6 instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to generate graphical interface 26 such that graphical interface 26 includes a primary pane 70 and a navigation pane 72 Primary pane 70 contains an editable slide 76 in the presentation Navigation pane 72 includes a series of thumb nail images 78A through 78D collectively thumbnail images 78 of slides in the presentation In addition to thumbnail images 78 navigation pane 72 includes the values of the title properties 80A 80C collectively titles 80 of the sections of the presentation Thumbnail images of slides within a section are shown below the value of the title prop erty of the section For instance in the example of FIG 3 thumbnail images 78A and 78B are shown below the title Electrical Properties indicating that the slides represented by thumbnail images 78A and 78B are within a section having the title property Electrical Properties Similarly thumbnail images 78C and 78D are shown below the title Ohm s Law indicating that the slides represented by thumbnail images 78C and 78D are within the section having the title property Ohm s Law The example interface in FIG 3 also illustrates that a first section ma
8. processor in which case it can be communicatively coupled to the processor via various means as is known in the art These techniques may be realized in several ways For example these techniques may be conceptualized as a method for organizing slides of an electronic slide presenta tion The method comprises accessing with a computing device a presentation file stored on a computer readable stor age medium the presentation file containing 1 a first set of section data that defines a first section the first set of section data identifying a first set of slides and identifying data that specifies a user defined value of a property of the first section other than the first set of slides and 11 a second set of section 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 12 data that defines a second section the second set of section data identifying a second set of slides and identifying data that specifies a user defined value of a property of the second section other than the second set of slides The method also comprises generating at the computing device a graphical interface using the value ofthe property ofthe first section and the value of the property of the second section the graphical interface enabling a user to interact with an electronic pre sentation that includes the slides in the first set of slides and the slides in the second set of slides In addition the method comprises displaying the graphical interf
9. section after determining that the first user has the right to perform the action with respect to the first section receive a request from the first user to perform the action with respect to the second section and in response to receiving the request from the first user to perform the action with respect to the second section determine that the second set of access control data specifies that the first user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second sec tion and deny the request to perform the action with respect to the second section after determining that the first user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section 17 The computer readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the action with respect to the first section com prises editing one of the slides in the first section and wherein the action with respect to the second section com prises editing one of the slides in the second section UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION PATENT NO 8 108 777 B2 Page 1 of 1 APPLICATION NO 12 189583 DATED January 31 2012 INVENTOR S Nathan Penner et al It is certified that error appears in the above identified patent and that said Letters Patent is hereby corrected as shown below In The Claims In column 13 line 41 in Claim 1 delete device and insert device therefor Signed and Sealed this Twentieth
10. section the first set of access control data defined by a second user and asecond set of section data the second set of section data defining a second section of the electronic slide pre sentation the second set of section data identifying slides in the second section of the electronic slide US 8 108 777 B2 17 presentation the second set of section data identify ing a user defined title of the second section and the second set of section data identifying a second set of access control data the second set of access control data specifying that the first user does not have a right to perform the action with respect to the second sec tion the second set of access control data defined by the second user and instructions that when executed by a processing unit of a computing device cause the processing unit to access the presentation file generate a graphical interface that displays the title ofthe first section the slides in the first section the title of the second section and the slides in the second sec tion receive a request from the first user to perform the action with respect to the first section in response to receiving the request from the first user to perform the action with respect to the first section determine that the first set of access control data specifies that the first user has the right to perform the action with respect to the first section and 18 perform the action with respect to the first
11. sorting slides As illustrated in the example of FIG 8 graphical interface 26 includes title bars 170A 170B 170C and 170D collectively title bars 170 Title bars 170 include the values of title properties of sections in a presentation In the example of FIG 8 title bar 170A indicates that Introduction is the value of a title property ofa first section of a presentation title bar 170B indicates that Q2 Sales Report is the value of a title property of a second section of the presentation title bar 170C indicates that Q3 Sales Outlook is the value of a title property of a third section of the presentation and title bar 170D indicates that Q3 Expenses Outlook is the value of a title property ofa fourth section of the presentation Title bars 170 also indicate how many slides are in each of the sections of the presentation Title bars 170 include icons 172A 172B 172C and 172D collectively icons 172 that enable user 24 to conceal or reveal thumbnail images of slides In the example of FIG 8 graphical interface 26 includes a set of thumbnail images 174A beneath title bar 170A that includes thumbnail images in the first section of the presentation In addition in the example of FIG 8 graphical interface 26 includes a set of thumbnail images 174B beneath title bar 170C that includes thumbnail images in the third section of the presentation User 24 may conceal thumbnail images 174A by selecting icon 172
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13. A and may conceal thumbnail images 174B by selecting icon 172C User 24 may reveal a set of thumbnail images of the slides in the second section of the presentation by selecting icon 172B Because the fourth section of the presentation does not include any slides graphical interface 24 does not display any thumbnail images beneath title bar 170D User 24 may use this version of graphical interface 24 to organize slides of the presentation into sections For example user 24 may use input device 14 to select one of thumbnail images 174A User 24 may then drag the selected thumbnail image of the slide to an area of graphical interface 26 beneath one of title bars 170 When user 24 has dragged the thumbnail image of the slide to the area of graphical interface 26 beneath one of title bars 170 the slide is removed from the first section added to the section of the presentation associated with the title bar For instance user 24 drags the selected thumbnail image of the slide to an area of graphical interface 26 beneath title bar 170D the slide is removed from the first section and added to the fourth section User 24 may interact with the presentation in a variety of ways by selecting title bars 170 For instance by selecting US 8 108 777 B2 11 title bars 170 user 24 may change the values of the title properties of the sections of the presentation In another instance by selecting title bars 170 user 24 may add a set of keywords that ena
14. Day of March 2012 David J Kappos Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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16. US008108777B2 az United States Patent 10 Patent No US 8 108 777 B2 Penner et al 45 Date of Patent Jan 31 2012 54 SECTIONS OF A PRESENTATION HAVING 7 206 773 B2 4 2007 Erol USER DEFINABLE PROPERTIES eC C MERO ee 75 Inventors Nathan Penner Mountain View CA dere ES ed Eo US Shawn Villaron San Jose CA 7 299 418 B2 11 2007 Dieberger US Dachuan Zhang Sunnyvale CA 7 363 581 B2 4 2008 Parks US 7 392 475 Bl 6 2008 Leban 7 493 561 B2 2 2009 Sareen 73 Assignee Microsoft Corporation Redmond WA Continued US FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS Notice Subject to any disclaimer the term of this JP 2001 022257 1 2001 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Continued U S C 154 b by 289 days OTHER PUBLICATIONS 21 Appl No 12 189 583 International Search Report mailed Nov 30 2009 in PCT Applica 22 Filed Aus 11 2008 tion No PCT US2009 046529 22 g 11 65 Prior Publication Data Continued US 2010 0037140 A1 Feb 11 2010 Primary Examiner Tadeese Hailu 74 Attorney Agent or Firm Merchant amp Gould P C 51 Int CI G06F 3 00 2006 01 57 ABSTRACT 52 Us Cl sass ed m 715 730 715 731 715 732 In general this disclosure describes techniques that employ 58 Field of Classification Search 715 730 732 user defined values of properties of sections of an electronic See application file for complete search history presentation As described herein a user may configure a
17. ace on an output device In another example the techniques of this disclosure may be realized as a computing device comprising a processing unit that is capable of executing instructions an output device and a storage medium The storage medium com prises a presentation file stored on a computer readable stor age medium the presentation file containing 1 a first set of section data that defines a first section the first set of section data identifying a first set of slides and identifying data that specifies a user defined value ofa property of the first section other than the first set of slides and i1 a second set of section data that defines a second section the second set of section data identifying a second set of slides and identifying data that specifies a user defined value of a property of the second section other than the second set of slides The computer readable storage medium also comprises instructions that when executed by the processing unit cause the processing unit to access the presentation file generate a graphical inter face using the value ofthe property ofthe first section and the value of the property of the second section the graphical interface enabling a user to interact with an electronic pre sentation that includes the slides in the first set of slides and the slides in the second set of slides and display the graphical interface on the output device In another example the techniques of this dis
18. ble a search engine to identify a section within the presentation In each of these instances when user 24 selects one of title bars 170 processing unit 4 receives input and the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to perform an action in response FIG 9 illustrates an example system 190 in which multiple computing devices 192 and 194 simultaneously access a pre sentation file 196 stored in a storage medium 198 accessible by a network 200 In system 190 presentation file 196 may include a first set of section data that defines a first section and a second set of section data that defines a second section Because the first set of section data and the second set of section data are logically distinct within presentation file 196 a user of computing device 192 may edit slides in the first section of the presentation at the same time that a user of computing device 194 is editing slides in the second section of the presentation This may enable these users to work on the presentation in a collaborative fashion It is to be understood that the implementations described herein may beimplemented by hardware software firmware middleware microcode or any combination thereof When the systems and or methods are implemented in software firmware middleware or microcode program code or code segments they may be stored in a computer readable storage medium such as a storage component A code segment may represent a
19. cal interface 26 is a section selection dialog window The instruc tions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to display graphical interface 26 in response to an input from user 24 that indicates that user 24 wants to select sec tions of the presentation to be displayed in a presentation of the presentation In the example of FIG 5 graphical interface 26 includes a list 110 of the values of the title properties of the sections in the presentation In addition graphical interface 26 includes checkboxes 112A 112C collectively check boxes 112 next to each of the values of the title properties of the sections in the presentation A checkmark in one of check boxes 112 next to a value of the title property of one of the sections indicates that a property of the section specifies that the slides of the section are to be included in a presentation of the presentation In the example of FIG 5 there are check marks in checkboxes 112A and 112B indicating that slides in the section titled Electric Properties and slides in the sec tion titled Ohm s Law are to be included ina presentation of the presentation and that the slides in the section titled Capacitance are not to be included in the presentation of the presentation User 24 may use input device 14 to add or remove check marks from checkboxes 112 When user 24 adds a checkmark to one of checkboxes 112 processing unit 4 receives section selecti
20. closure may be realized as a computer readable storage medium compris ing a presentation file stored on a computer readable storage medium the presentation file containing i a first set of section data that defines a first section the first set of section data identifying a first set of slides identifying data that specifies a title of the first section and identifying data that specifies a user defined value ofa property of the first section that represents a first set of access control data that specifies that the user has a right to perform an action with respect to the first section and ii a second set of section data that defines a second section the second set of section data identifying a second set of slides identifying data that specifies a title ofthe second section and identifying data that specifies a user defined value of a property of the second section that repre sents a second set of access control data that specifies that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section The computer readable storage medium also comprises instructions that when executed by a processing unit of a computing device cause the processing unit to access the presentation file The instructions also cause the processing unit to generate a graphical interface that dis plays the title of the first section and the title of the second section Furthermore the instructions cause the processing unit to rec
21. containing data that directly represents the user defined value of the property of the first presentation In addition to presentation file 20 storage medium 8 stores a presentation application 22 Presentation application 22 may be similar in some respects to presentation applications such as the Microsoft POWERPOINT presentation graph ics program sold by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond Wash the KEYNOTE slide presentation software sold by Apple Corporation of Cupertino Calif the OpenOffice Impress slide presentation software provided by OpenOffice org and the GOOGLE APPS slide presentation application provided by Google Inc of Mountain View Calif In one example implementation presentation application 22 comprises a set of instructions that are executable by processing unit 4 When a user 24 wants to interact with the electronic presentation represented by presentation file 20 user 24 may use input device 16 to instruct computing device 2 to begin executing the instructions of presentation applica tion 22 For example user 24 may instruct computing device 2 to begin executing instructions of presentation application 22 by using a mouse to select an icon displayed on output device 18 that represents presentation application 22 In another example user 24 may instruct computing device 2 to begin executing instructions of presentation application 22 by using a keyboard to select an icon representing presentation file 20 W
22. eive a request from the user to perform the action with respect to the first section The instructions also cause the processing unit to in response to receiving the request from the user to perform the action with respect to the first section determine that the second set of access control data specifies that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section and perform the action with respect to the first section In addition the instructions cause US 8 108 777 B2 13 the processing unit to receive a request from the user to perform the action with respect to the second section Fur thermore the instructions cause the processing unit to in response to receiving the request from the user to perform the action with respect to the second section determine that the second set of access control data specifies that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section and deny the request to perform the action with respect to the second section Although the subject matter has been described in lan guage specific to structural features and or methodological acts it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above Rather the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims We claim 1 A method for organizin
23. en tation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to display graphical interface 26 in response to an input from user 24 that indicates that user 24 wants to print slides in the presen tation As illustrated in the example of FIG 4 graphical interface 26 includes a Printer drop box 100 that enables user 24 to select a printer with which to print the slides of the presentation Furthermore as illustrated in the example of FIG 4 graphical interface 26 includes a Print Sections drop box 102 User 24 may interact with Print Sections drop box 102 to indicate that user 24 wants to print slides in all sections of the presentation or that user 24 wants to print slides only in a selected section of the presentation When user 24 interacts with Print Sections drop box 102 processing unit 4 may receive section selection input that indicates one or more of the sections as selected sections Furthermore as illustrated in the example of FIG 4 graphical interface 26 includes an OK button 104 When user 24 uses input device 14 to select OK button 104 processing unit 4 instructs the printing device indicated by Printer drop box 100 to print the slides in the selected sections FIG 5 illustrates a third example version of graphical interface 26 generated by processing unit 4 that enables user 24 to select sections to display in a presentation of the pre sentation As illustrated in the example of FIG 5 graphi
24. example a digital visual interface cable or another type of physical video connector cable may connect the output device interface 14 and output device 18 In this example processing unit 4 may send instructions regarding an image to output device interface 14 and output device interface 14 may send signals to output device 18 to display the image In another example processing unit 4 may present information on output device 18 by transmitting information over a network to a computing device that causes output device 18 to display an image based on the transmitted information Storage medium 8 stores a presentation file 20 that repre sents an electronic presentation Presentation file 20 contains at least one set of section data Each set of section data in presentation file 20 defines a section A section is a logical unitofan electronic presentation that has at least one property 0 35 40 45 65 4 having a user definable value and that is associated with zero or more sequential or non sequential slides of the presenta tion Each set of section data identifies a set of slides associ ated with a section and a user defined value of a property of the section other than the set of slides included in the section As discussed below the property of the section may be a variety of different properties and that a set of section data may include several user defined values of properties of a section For example a first set
25. face 26 generated by processing unit 4 for defining access control data properties of a section ofthe presentation In the example of FIG 7 graphical interface 26 enables user 24 to select access control data for the section titled Ohm s Law Specifically graphical interface 26 includes a users drop box 150 that enables user 24 to select another user For instance in the example of FIG 7 user 24 may select users named Hillary John David or Trevor In addition graphical interface 26 includes a list of rights 152 In the example of FIG 7 list of rights 152 includes a right to view slides in the section titled Ohm s Law and a right to edit slides in the section titled Ohm s Law Furthermore graphi cal interface 26 includes a checkbox 154A and a checkbox 154B A checkmark in checkbox 154A indicates a property of the section titled Ohm s Law has a value that specifies that the user selected in users drop box 150 has the right to view slides in the section titled Ohm s Law A checkmark in checkbox 154B indicates a property of the section titled Ohm s Law has a value that specifies that the user selected in users drop box 150 has the right to edit slides in the section titled Ohm s Law User 24 may redefine the values of these properties by clicking on checkbox 154A and or checkbox 154B It should be appreciated that values of these properties for a single user
26. first section generating by the computing device a presentation graphical interface that includes a slide in the first section after determining that the value ofthe property indicates that the slides in the first section are to be displayed in the presentation of the electronic presen tation and displaying the presentation graphical interface on the output device 13 The method of claim 1 wherein the first section is a child section of the second section 14 The method of claim 1 wherein the computing device comprises a processing unit implemented as a set of integrated circuits that includes at least one integrated circuit an output device interface that facilities communication with the output device and an input device interface that receives input from an input device used by the user 15 A computing device comprising an output device and a storage medium comprising a presentation file stored on a computer readable storage medium the presentation file containing a first set of section data the first set of section data defining a first section of the electronic slide pre sentation the first set of section data identifying slides in the first section of the electronic slide presentation and identifying a user defined title of the first section and 25 35 40 45 50 60 65 16 a second set of section data the second set of section data defining a second section of the electronic slide
27. g slides of an electronic slide presentation the method comprising accessing by a computing device a presentation file for the electronic slide presentation the presentation file stored on a computer readable storage medium the presenta tion file containing a first set of section data the first set of section data defining a first section of the electronic slide presen tation the first set of section data identifying slides in the first section of the electronic slide presentation and identifying a user defined title ofthe first section and a second set of section data the second set of section data defining a second section of the electronic slide pre sentation the second set of section data identifying slides in the second section of the electronic slide presentation and identifying a user defined title of the second section generating by the computing device a graphical interface including the title of the first section thumbnail images of the slides in the first section the title of the second section and thumbnail images ofthe slides inthe second section and displaying the graphical interface on an output device wherein the first set of section data identifies a first set of access control data the first set of access control data specifying that the user has a right to perform an action with respect to the first section wherein the second set of section data identifies a second set of access control data
28. hen processing unit 4 begins executing the instructions of presentation application 22 the instructions cause process ing unit 4 to access presentation file 20 Upon accessing presentation file 20 the instructions of presentation applica tion 22 cause processing unit 4 to generate a graphical inter face 26 in storage medium 8 When processing unit 4 gener ates graphical interface 26 processing unit 4 uses the values of the properties of the sections of the presentation Graphical interface 26 when displayed on output device 18 enables a US 8 108 777 B2 5 user 24 to interact with an electronic presentation that includes the slides in each of the sections defined by the sets of section data included in presentation file 20 After causing processing unit 4 to generate graphical interface 26 the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to display graphical interface 26 on output device 18 FIG 2 illustrates a first example operation that instructions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 of computing device 2 to perform When processing unit 4 begins executing the instructions of presentation application 22 the instructions cause processing unit 4 to access presen tation file 20 40 In other words the instructions cause processing unit 4 to retrieve some or all of presentation file 20 from storage medium 8 As described above presentation file 20 contains at least one set of section da
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30. ion application 22 cause processing unit 4 to automatically update the name contained in the auto update field The example interface of FIG 3 also includes a link 88 During presentation of the presentation user 24 may select link 88 in order to jump to the sequentially first slide in a presentation selection referenced by link 88 In the example of FIG 3 selection on link 88 may cause processing unit 4 to display the sequentially first slide in the section titled Capacitance User 24 can use the example interface of FIG 3 to interact with the presentation in additional ways For example user 24 may use input device 14 to select a section by selecting the title e g title 80C of the section in navigation pane 72 When user 24 selects one of titles 80 processing unit 4 receives section selection input that indicates that user 24 has selected the section associated with the selected one of titles 80 In response to the section selection input the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to update graphical interface 26 such that the thumbnail images of the slides in the selected section are visually differentiated from the thumbnail images of the slides in the non selected sections For example the thumbnail images of the slides in the selected section may be visually differentiated from the thumbnail images of the slides in the non selected sections by a thicker border around the thumbnail images of the s
31. ions may include a large number of slides and may contain information about several topics For example a physics teacher may use an electronic slide presentation to teach a lesson that includes slides about resis tance slides about capacitance and slides about an upcoming exam SUMMARY This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of con cepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed sub ject matter nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter 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 con figure a presentation to include a plurality of sections Each of the sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide presentation In addition to the slides associated with each section each of the sections is associated with one or more properties having values that can be defined by an author of the presentation Because the values of the proper ties of the sections are user definable these properties may in some implementations of these techniques enable the author of the presentation to use the sections in ways not possible in presentation applications that merely use sections as a means of grouping thumbnail images of slides for easy
32. isplay graphical interface 26 on output device 18 44 As mentioned above graphical interface 26 is designed to enable user 24 to interact with a presentation that includes slides in the sections contained in presentation file 20 Accordingly when output device 18 displays graphical inter face 26 the instructions of presentation application 22 enable processing unit 4 to receive input related to a property of a section in the presentation 46 For example the instructions of presentation application 22 may enable processing unit 4 to receive mouse movement and mouse click input In response to the input the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to perform an action using the prop erty of the section 48 The instructions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to generate graphical interface 26 in a wide variety of ways thereby enabling a wide variety of possible ways that user 24 can interact with the presentation Further more because the instructions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to generate graphical interface 26 in a wide variety of ways processing unit 4 may be receive a wide variety of inputs in step 46 and may perform a wide variety of actions in response to these inputs in step 48 Some of the potential ways of generating graphical interface 26 to enable specific types of interaction are summarized with ref erence to FIGS 3 8 In a first example
33. lides in the selected section When user 24 has selected a section processing unit 4 may receive copy command input from user 24 and may subse quently receive paste command input from user 24 In response to the paste command input the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to copy the presentation data that defines the selected section to a location indicated by the paste command input For instance when the paste command input indicates a location in a sec ond presentation the instructions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to copy the set of presentation data that defines the selected section to a location in the second presentation As a result the second presentation includes the selected section including the data identifying the slides in the selected section and values of properties of an 5 30 40 45 8 the selected section The copy command input may take the form of user 24 clicking on the title of a section of the pre sentation and the paste command input may take the form of user 24 dragging the title of the section to a location and dropping the title of the section at a location where the section is to be added FIG 4 illustrates a second example version of graphical interface 26 generated by processing unit 4 for printing slides in the presentation In the example of FIG 4 graphical inter face 26 is a print dialog window The instructions of pres
34. may differ among sections of the presentation For instance the value of the property of a first section rep resents a first set of access control data that specifies that a an 0 a 5 20 40 45 10 user has a right to perform an action with respect to the first section and the value of the property of the second section represents a second set of access control data that specifies that the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the second section Subsequently processing unit 4 may receive a request from a user to perform an action e g view or edit a slide with respect to a section in the presentation In response to receiv ing the request from the user to perform the action with respect to the section of the presentation the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to use these properties of the section to determine whether the user has a right to perform the action with respect to the section If the user has the right to perform the action with respect to the section the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to perform the action If the user does not have the right to perform the action with respect to the section the instructions of presentation application 22 cause process ing unit 4 to deny the request to perform the action FIG 8 illustrates a sixth example version of graphical interface 26 generated by processing unit 4 for
35. n with respect to the second section 2 The method of claim 1 wherein the presentation file contains a third set of section data the third set of section data defining a third section of the electronic slide presentation the third section of the electronic slide presentation not including any slides 3 The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises receiving at the computing device section selection input that indicates that the user wants the output device to display a sequentially first slide in the sec ond section by selecting the title of the second section included in the graphical interface in response to receiving the section selection input updating by the computing device the graphical interface such that the graphical interface includes an image of the sequentially first slide in the second section and displaying the updated graphical interface on the output device 4 The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises receiving at the computing device section concealment input that indicates that the user wants to conceal the thumbnail images of the slides in the first section in response to receiving the section concealment input updating by the computing device the graphical inter face such that the graphical interface does not include any thumbnail images of the slides in the first section and displaying the updated graphical interface on the output device 5 The method
36. ng device the first user to edit slides in the first section at the same time that a user of the second com puting device is editing slides in the second section 10 The method of claim 1 receiving at the computing device section selection input that indicates the first section as a selected section and printing by a printing device the slides associated with the selected section 11 The method of claim 1 wherein the presentation file is a first presentation file and wherein the first set of section data identifies the slides in the first section and the title of the first section by speci fying a link to a third set of section data contained in a second presentation file the third set of section data containing data that directly represents the slides in the first section and containing data that directly represents the title of the first section 12 The method of claim 1 wherein the first set of section data includes a property of the first section a value of the property specifying whether the slides in the first section are to be displayed during a presentation of the electronic slide presenta tion the value of the property defined by the user and wherein the method further comprises receiving at the computing device input that indicates that the user wants to present the electronic presenta tion after receiving the input using the value of the property to determine whether to display the slides of the
37. of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises receiving at the computing device section selection input that indicates that the user has selected the first section by selecting the title of the first section on the graphical interface in response to receiving the section selection input updat ing by the computing device the graphical interface such that the thumbnail images of the slides in the first section are visually differentiated from the thumbnail images of the slides in the second section and displaying the updated graphical interface on the output device 6 The method of claim 5 further comprising after displaying the updated graphical interface receiving at the computing device copy command input after receiving the copy command input receiving at the computing device paste command input and in response to receiving the paste command input copying the first set of presentation data to a location indicated by the paste command input 7 The method of claim 6 wherein the location indicated by the paste command input is in a second electronic presenta tion US 8 108 777 B2 15 8 The method of claim 1 wherein the action is selected from a group of actions that consists of viewing slides and editing slides 9 The method of claim 1 wherein the user is a first user wherein the computing device is a first computing device wherein the method further comprises enabling by the first computi
38. of section data may contain data that directly represents six slides included in a first sec tion and may contain data that indicates that the name of the first section is Section 1 Further in this example a second set of section data in presentation file 20 may contain data that directly represents four slides and may contain data that indi cates that the name of the second section is Section 2 In this example the first section may include slides 1 3 5 6 7 and 9 and the second section may include slides 2 4 8 and 10 Presentation file 20 may include a wide variety of different types of data structures that embody the sets of section data For example presentation file 20 may include an extensible markup language XML data structure for each set of section data In another example presentation file 20 may include binary data structures that represent each set of section data In another example presentation file 20 may include a set of section data that identifies the first set of slides and identifies the data that specifies the user defined value of the property of the first section by specifying a link to a third set of section data contained in a second presentation file In this example the third set of section data identifies the first set of slides and identifies data that specifies the user defined value of the property of the first section by containing data that directly represents the first set of slides and by
39. on input that indicates that user 24 wants slides in the section associated with the one of checkboxes 112 to be included in the presentation of the presentation In response to the section selection input processing unit 4 modifies the value of property of the presentation selection to indicate that the slides of the section are to be included in presentations of the presentation Later processing unit 4 may receive input that indicates that user 24 wants to present the presentation In response to US 8 108 777 B2 9 this input the instructions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to use the value of the property of the selected section to determine whether to display the slides of the selected section Subsequently the instructions of presen tation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to generate a presentation graphical interface that includes a slide of the selected section when it is determined that the value of the property ofthe selected section indicates that the slides ofthe selected section are to be displayed in the presentation of the presentation The instructions of presentation application 22 may then cause processing unit 4 to display the presentation graphical interface on output device 18 In this way sections can be skipped seamlessly during presentation of the presen tation FIG 6 illustrates a fourth example version of graphical interface 26 generated by processing unit 4 for presenting
40. presentation the second set of section data identifying slides in the second section of the elec tronic slide presentation and identifying a user defined title of the second section and computer executable instructions and a processing unit that reads the computer executable instructions from the storage medium and executes the computer executable instructions execution ofthe com puter executable instructions by the processing unit causing the processing unit to access the presentation file generate a graphical interface the graphical interface including the title of the first section thumbnail images ofthe slides in the first section the title ofthe second section and thumbnail images of slides in the second section and display the graphical interface on the output device wherein the first set of section data identifies a first set of access control data the first set of access control data specifying that the user has a right to perform an action with respect to the first section wherein the second set of section data identifies a second set of access control data the second set of access con trol data specifying that the user does not have a right to perform the action with respect to the second section and wherein execution ofthe computer executable instructions by the processing unit further causes the processing unit to in response to receiving a request from the user to per form the action with respect to the
41. procedure a function a subprogram a program a routine a subroutine a module a software package a class or any combination of instructions data structures or pro gram statements A code segment may be coupled to another code segment or a hardware circuit by passing and or receiv ing information data arguments parameters or memory contents Information arguments parameters data etc may be passed forwarded or transmitted using any suitable means including memory sharing message passing token passing network transmission etc Furthermore it is to be understood that computing device 2 may have additional features or functionality For example computing device 2 may also include additional data storage devices removable and or non removable such as for example magnetic disks optical disks or tape Computer readable storage media may include volatile and nonvolatile removable and non removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions data structures program modules or other data For a software implementation the techniques described herein may be implemented with modules e g procedures functions and so on that perform the functions described herein The software codes and instructions may be stored in computer readable storage media and executed by proces sors The memory unit may be implemented within the pro cessor or external to the
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43. s a computer network link e g one or more Ethernet links fiber optic links etc a PCI link or another type of link Storage medium 8 is capable of storing instructions that are readable and executable by processing unit 4 Storage medium 8 may be a wide variety of different types of com puter readable storage media For example storage medium 8 may beimplemented as one or more random access memory units one or more read only memory units magnetic disks optical disks magnetic tapes flash memory units or other types of storage media It should be appreciated that the term storage medium refers to a collection of one or more stor age media units or one or more types of storage media For instance some data in storage medium 8 may be physically stored on a magnetic tape and some data in storage medium 8 may be physically stored on a magnetic disk In the example of FIG 1 computing device 2 includes a communication link 10 that enables processing unit 4 to com municate with an input device interface 12 and an output device interface 14 Communication link 10 may be a variety of different types of communications link including a front side bus a HyperTransport link an Intel QuickPath Intercon nect an Accelerated Graphics Port bus a computer network link e g one or more Ethernet links fiber optic links etc a PCI link or another type of link Input device interface 10 facilitates communication from an input device 16
44. sical computing devices For example computing device 2 may be a personal computer a laptop computer a tablet computer a server computer a mainframe computer a mobile telephone a network telephone a television set top box a personal media player or another type of computing device Furthermore computing device 2 may implemented as two or more physically separate boxes For example computing device 2 may be a cluster of two or more physical computing devices In another example computing device 2 may be a grid computing system As illustrated in the example of FIG 1 computing device 2 comprises a processing unit 4 that is capable of executing instructions Processing unit 4 may be implemented as a set of integrated circuits that includes at least one integrated circuit In one example implementation processing unit 4 is a Core 2 processor manufactured by Intel Corporation of Santa Clara Calif In other example implementations processing unit 4 is implemented as a plurality of integrated circuits distributed among several physical devices The example of FIG 1 also illustrates that computing device 2 comprises a communication link 6 that enables pro cessing unit 4 to communicate with a storage medium 8 Communication link 6 may be a variety of different types of communications link including a front side bus a Hyper Transport link an Intel QuickPath Interconnect an Acceler US 8 108 777 B2 3 ated Graphics Port bu
45. strates an example graphical interface generated by the presentation application for authoring a presentation FIG 4 illustrates an example graphical interface generated by the presentation application for printing slides in the pre sentation FIG 5 illustrates an example graphical interface generated by the processing unit to select sections to include in a pre sentation of the presentation FIG 6 illustrates an example graphical interface generated by the processing unit for presenting the presentation FIG 7 illustrates an example graphical interface generated by the processing unit for defining access control data prop erties of a section of the presentation FIG 8 illustrates a sixth example version of graphical interface 26 generated by processing unit 4 for sorting slides FIG 9 illustrates an example system in which multiple computing devices simultaneously access a presentation file stored in a storage medium accessible by a network DETAILED DESCRIPTION In general this disclosure describes techniques that employ user defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation In the following description various examples are described It should be appreciated that these examples are provided for purposes of explanation and not as express or implied limitations on the scopes of the claims FIG 1 illustrates an example computing device 2 Com puting device 2 may be a wide variety of different types of phy
46. ta Each set of section data identifies a set of zero or more slides included ina section and a user defined value of a property of the section other than the set of slides included in the section For example presen tation file 20 may contain i a first set of section data that defines a first section the first set of section data identifying a first set of slides and identifying data that specifies a user defined value of a property of the first section other than the first set of slides and ii a second set of section data that defines a second section the second set of section data iden tifying a second set of slides and identifying data that speci fies a user defined value of a property of the second section other than the second set of slides After the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to access presentation file 20 the instruc tions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to generate graphical interface 26 using at least one user defined value of a property of one of the sections 42 Continuing the example cited in the previous paragraph the instructions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to generate graphical interface 26 using the value of property of the first section and the value of the property of the second section Once processing unit 4 generates graphical interface 26 the instructions of presentation application 22 cause pro cessing unit 4 to d
47. the presentation As illustrated in the example of FIG 6 graphi cal interface 26 includes slide 76 FIG 3 Furthermore graphical interface 26 shows a pointer 130 controlled by user 24 using input device 14 User 24 may use input device 14 to indicate that user 24 wants to skip to a different section ofthe presentation For example user 24 may press a right mouse button of input device 14 When user 24 indicates that user 24 wants to skip to a different section of the presentation pro cessing unit 4 updates graphical interface 26 such that graphi cal interface 26 includes a menu 132 that lists the values ofthe title properties of the sections of the presentation User 24 may then position pointer 130 to indicate that user 24 wants to skip to a particular section of the presentation When user 24 indicates that user 24 wants to skip to a selected section of the presentation processing unit 4 receives section selection input that indicates that user 24 wants output device 18 to display a sequentially first slide in the selected section In response to the section selection input the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to update graphical interface 26 such that graphical interface 26 includes an image of the sequentially first slides in the selected section and causes processing unit 4 to display the updated graphical interface on output device 18 FIG 7 illustrates a fifth example version of graphical inter
48. title property Capacitance In response to the section reveal input the instructions of presentation appli cation 22 cause processing unit 4 to update graphical interface 26 such that graphical interface 26 includes thumbnail images of slides in the section having the title Capacitance The instructions of presentation application 22 then cause pro cessing unit 4 to display the updated graphical interface on output device 18 The example interface of FIG 3 also includes an auto update field 86 within slide 76 Auto update field 86 contains the value of the title property of the section to which slide 76 belongs In the example of FIG 3 slide 76 belongs to the section having the title Ohm s Law When user 24 elects to change the value of the title property of the section to which slide 76 belongs processing unit 4 receives title change input that indicates a new title for the section In response to the title change input the instructions of presentation application cause processing unit 4 to update the value of the title prop erty displayed in auto update field 86 It should be understood that other auto update fields may contain values of other properties of sections For instance an auto update field in a slide of a section may contain the name specified by an author property of the section In this instance if user 24 elected to change the value of the author property of the section the instructions of presentat
49. trical Properties include all slides in the sec tion having the title property Ohm s Law and all slides in the section having the title property Capacitance In response to the section concealment input the instructions of presentation application 22 cause processing unit 4 to update graphical interface 26 such that graphical interface 26 does not include any thumbnail images of slides in the section having the title property Electrical Properties i e thumb nail images 78A 78B 78C and 78D The instructions of presentation application 22 may also cause processing unit 4 to update graphical interface 26 such that graphical interface 26 does not include the titles of any sections that are child sections of the section having the title property Electrical Properties i e Capacitance and Ohm s Law The instructions of presentation application 22 also cause pro cessing unit 4 to display the updated graphical interface on output device 18 The example interface in FIG 3 also includes a reveal icon 84 The instructions of presentation application 22 may cause processing unit 4 to display a reveal icon next to a title of a section in which the thumbnail image of slides in the section are concealed When user 24 selects reveal icon 84 process US 8 108 777 B2 7 ing unit 4 receives section reveal input that indicates that user 24 wants to reveal the thumbnail images of slides in the section having the
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51. y be a child section of a second section When a first section is a child section of a second section all slides in the first section are slides in the section but all slides in the second section are not necessarily slides in the first section In the example of FIG 3 the section having the title property Ohm s Law is a child section of the section having the title property Electrical Properties The fact that the section having the title property Ohm s Law is a child section of the section having the title property Electrical Properties is demonstrated visually by the indentation of the title Ohm s Law relative to the title Electrical Properties and the indentation of the thumbnail images of the slides in the sec tion having the title property of Ohm s Law relative to slides in the section having the title property Electrical Prop erties The example interface in FIG 3 also includes conceal icons 82A and 82B collectively conceal icons 82 When graphical interface 26 is displayed on output device 18 user 24 may use input device 14 to select one of conceal icons 82 When user 24 selects conceal icon 82A processing unit 4 receives section concealment input that indicates that user 24 wants to conceal the thumbnail images of slides in the section having the title property Electrical Properties Note that in the example of FIG 3 the slides in the section having the title property Elec

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