Patent ID: 7281199
Filing Date: 2007-10-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method executed in a computer system for selecting a multimedia presentation comprising: providing a plurality of multimedia presentations in accordance with predetermined criteria; providing one or more multimedia data items, each of said one or more multimedia data items being a duplicate of a portion of a corresponding one of said plurality of multimedia presentations; presenting said one or more multimedia data items using a browser to select at least one of the plurality of multimedia presentations, said one or more multimedia data items being presented separately from said plurality of multimedia presentations, said viewing one or more multimedia data items includes: a) presenting a hierarchical description of the information in an outline area; and b) presenting said one or more multimedia data items in a presentation area, said hierarchical description being synchronized with a first temporal arrangement of said one or more multimedia data items in said presentation area; controlling direction and speed of said presenting of said one or more multimedia data items; selecting a first of said one or more multimedia data items; and transferring control to machine executable code associated with a first of said plurality of multimedia presentations corresponding to said first multimedia data item; wherein some of said multimedia data items includes a group of one or more images having a parent-child relationship in which there is one parent multimedia data item and one or more child multimedia data items, and the method further includes: dividing said presentation area into four quadrants; presenting said parent multimedia data item near a center of said presentation area; and presenting subsequent child multimedia data items beginning in an upper left quadrant and proceeding to present successive multimedia data items on a clockwise rotation in successive quadrants.