Method, Apparatus, Processor-Readable Media and Signals for Acquiring and Presenting Acquired Multimedia Content

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.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 540,756, filed Mar. 31, 2000 and incorporates its disclosure herein by reference in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates to methods, apparatus, processor-readable media and signals for producing multimedia presentations and more particularly to acquiring and presenting acquired multimedia content.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]With the advent of the internet, computer users have been given access to a vast quantity of information. Much of this information is provided to users as multimedia content such as sound, graphics, text, etc, in the form of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files, graphics files such as JPEG and / or GIF files, or PDF files, for example. These types of files are typically received at a user's computer through a browser running at the computer.[0004]A browser, such as provided by Netscape...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]The present invention addresses the above need by providing a method and apparatus and processor-readable medium and signals for building a presentation by receiving user input identifying multimedia content to be included in the presentation and copying multimedia content identified by user-input, from a multimedia source to memory, for access by a presentation application. This facilitates the creation of a permanent presentation folder or presentation file of multimedia content and an index of acquired content, while surfing the world wide web.

Problems solved by technology

Furthermore, bookmarks are cumulative in that they generally do not specify websites of interest during an internet session, but rather specify websites of interest from all sessions conducted by a user.

Thus content to be stored in cache memory is generally not selectable as being desirable or undesirable by a user and is variable in time.

Content can, however, be saved manually as source or text, however, this creates individual, non-linked files with no specified order of retrieval, which makes it difficult to recall files for use in a presentation.

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