Patent ID: 9026912
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a multi-media presentation, comprising: displaying an event structure related to an event on a graphical user interface; responsive to a user dragging and dropping an icon representing a media file onto the event structure, creating a first event item representing the media file; getting a plurality of event items associated with the event including the first event item and a second event item, each event item of the plurality of event items comprising a file associated with an application used to display the file to an audience and represented by graphical icons; displaying the plurality of event items associated with the event structure on the graphical user interface; responsive to an event trigger, starting the event and automatically processing for display the plurality of event items in an order shown by the event structure; receiving a selection of the first event item from the plurality of event items; performing a first action related to the first event item; sending an output of the first action to a main window of a display device, which displays the multi-media presentation to the audience; displaying an add to main window icon on the graphical user interface; and responsive to the user dragging and dropping the second event item onto the add to main window icon, performing a second action based on the second event item, and sending an output of the second action to the main window on the display device for display while the output of the first action is currently running in the main window.