Patent ID: 7024619
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of dynamically representing a multimedia document in a data-processing system via a software module, said multimedia document being made up of a hierarchically-organized set of elements, themselves having attributes, at least one of said attributes being associated with an event-condition-action (ECA) type formalism, said method comprising the following ordered steps: describing said multimedia document in a description language; and having said multimedia document interpreted by said software module; said ECA formalisms being interpreted dynamically so as to enable the representation of said multimedia document to be varied by means of actions being performed as a function of events and of conditions, in which the hierarchically-organized set is made up of composite elements, each of which is made up of contained elements, the attributes of the various elements being statuses which describe the states of the various portions of the document, and in which an event is constituted by a change in the value of a status of an element being detected by said element and resulting in an action being performed to change the appearance or the behavior of the document, when a condition constituted by a logic expression associating status values relating to various elements is satisfied.