Patent ID: 9069772
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method to create a presentation comprised of at least one sheet, each sheet containing one or more visual elements, comprising: in response to input from a user, representing visual elements as depictions in a model, where the model is comprised of a visual model that operates with a view layer, a content model, and a mapping model that provides mapping rules between contents of the visual model and the content model, where each depiction depicts an item in the model, where each item is a unit of information with a unique identifier, where each item can be depicted by at least one depiction and each depiction defines the visual representation of the item's information via the visual element; for a case where the presentation is comprised of a plurality of sheets, and in response to a change to an item made by altering the visual element in the view layer that is associated with the depiction of the item, operating the model to perform computation in accordance with stored machine executable instructions so as to automatically propagate the change to the item to all other occurrences of depictions of the item across all sheets of the plurality of sheets of the presentation; and further operating the model for automatically updating the associated visual elements to reflect the change to the item.