Patent ID: 9268774
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,G11B

Claim Text:
1. An interactive content authoring apparatus comprising: an extensible markup language (XML) decoder configured to decode, at the decoder, a content file so as to extract content units; a story-map creator configured to create story map information, at the creator, using the extracted content units; a processor configured to selectively connect the content units according to the story map information and XML encode the connected content units, at the processor, to generate interactive content defining a story; and a display for displaying the generated interactive content to an audience, wherein: the story map information comprises: each pair of the content units is selectively connected according to the second connection information only when the post-conditions of a first content unit of the pair are identical to the pre-conditions of a second content unit of the pair, wherein at least one of conditional branch and pre-conditions and post-conditions comprise conditions related to a state information about a user, and wherein the interactive content includes a data structure that comprises the state information about the user and a state update list which represents a rule to update the state information when conditions related to the state information about the user are satisfied.