Patent ID: 6665835
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: G06F,G09B,G11B

Abstract:
A timing event coordinator for maintaining a record of relative times of time-related components exhibiting temporal state changes, said timing event coordinator comprising:means for marking a base event with reference marks; means for time stamping said time-related components to synchronize said time-related components to said base event, each time-related component of said time-related components having time stamps that are independent of each other; means for creating a unified view of time indicating a type for each of said time-related components and their corresponding time stamps and an index for said each time-related component; means for creating a presentation by providing events from said unified view of time to an application to allow said time-related components to act according to status of said base event; means for receiving, subsequent to said creating, at least one new time-related component from an end user during a viewing of said presentation by the end user, said at least one new time-related component including notes relating to said presentation; and means for integrating said at least one new time-related component into said presentation to create a new presentation.