Patent ID: 7246313
Filing Date: 2007-07-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for authoring multimedia documents, comprising: a template document floating field detecting unit that detects a floating field of a template document, which is an incomplete multimedia document having a fixed field in addition to the floating field, by parsing a control document including information identifying the floating field and a list of selectable objects; a control document outputting unit that renders and outputs the control document; a user selection information receiving unit that receives information selected by a user with respect to the control document output from the control document outputting unit; a multimedia document completing unit that completes the template document as a multimedia document by fixing the floating field detected by the template document floating field detecting unit to be an object designated by the information selected by the user among the list of selectable objects when the information selected by the user is received through the user selection information receiving unit; a template document receiving unit that receives the template document from a server if the template document is not found in a database when the user selects the template document; a control document receiving unit that receives the control document from the server if the control document is not found in the database; and a multimedia file receiving unit that receives a multimedia file designated by the multimedia file information from the server if the multimedia file is not found in the database.