Patent ID: 8386942
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for providing a digital multimedia presentation, the system comprising: a presentation server; a presentation content database accessible through the presentation server, the presentation content database configured to store a plurality of digital multimedia content items; a presentation control application configured to enable identification of a digital multimedia content item for presentation from among the plurality of digital multimedia content items, by: enabling user selection of presentation preferences including additional display features, including scaling for adjusting a size of a viewing pane, for the digital multimedia content item; organizing the plurality of digital multimedia content items into digital multimedia content sets displayed on a selection plane; enabling navigation in a first navigation mode corresponding to a lateral navigation on the selection plane; grouping the plurality of digital multimedia content items into grouping subsets displayed on a presentation plane; enabling navigation in the first navigation mode on the presentation plane, the presentation plane configured to display a contextual background corresponding to a theme of a selected digital multimedia content set and the grouping subsets, wherein the contextual background comprises at least one of one or more dynamic graphical assets and one or more interactive graphical assets; enabling navigation in a second navigation mode corresponding to a zoom navigation between the selection plane and the presentation plane; identifying the digital multimedia content item from the plurality of digital multimedia content items for presentation; sending the digital multimedia content item to a client computer; and activating selected additional display features from the presentation preferences.