Patent ID: 6037943
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of navigating a plurality of digital foils, for use by a human presenter making a presentation to an audience, the presentation employing a system having a graphical user interface for use by the user and an audience display upon which foils are displayed for viewing by the audience, the presentation including content selected by the user from among a plurality of hierarchically organized sets of foils, each foil including an information image to be displayed concurrently with additional information given by the presenter, the digital foils within each of the sets being arranged into a predetermined order, whereby the presenter presents the foils in a desired sequence which is different from the predetermined order, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:storing a first variable of a total number of the plurality of foils to be included in the presentation and a second variable of a currently displayed foil;simultaneously displaying, on the audience display, the currently displayed foil and displaying, on the graphical user interface, the currently displayed foil and an indicator having a listing of at least a portion of the plurality of foils, the listing giving the listed foils in the desired sequence for the presentation, and in the hierarchical organization, said indicator dynamically illustrating different portions of said hierarchical organization based on user selection of one of said portion of the plurality of foils;in response to said user selection, incrementing or decrementing the second variable to correspond to a selected digital foil; andaccessing the selected digital foil from the second variable.