Patent Publication Number: US-11657213-B2

Title: System and methods that add functionalities to presentation systems so that texts and numbers be remotely inserted, edited and deleted from mobile devices directly into slideware slide show mode (iSlidesMobile)

Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The invention of the present application (iSlidesMobile) is related to the presentation software POWERPOINT, to U.S. Pat. No. 10,019,424, and to POWERPOINT users&#39; frustrations. 
     iSlidesMobile invention relates to POWERPOINT, part of Microsoft Office that packs several personal productivity tools, and which has 1.2B licenses sold worldwide (Keizer, 2017). The invention also relates to the system and method iSlides, U.S. Pat. No. 10,019,424 (Lopez, 2018) that added three functionalities to POWERPOINT: a new iSLIDES tab inserted into POWERPOINT main ribbon, new interactive slides (iSlides) inserted into its design pane, and iSlides whose texts and objects are editable, resizable, movable, and formattable in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
     POWERPOINT dates from the 1980s, when the dominant presentation paradigm was an active presenter and a passive audience. Since then, the paradigm changed into active presenter and audience. Presenters began introducing interactive events into their presentations, mainly through engaging audiences by asking questions, brainstorming and other audience participation techniques (Steuer, 1992; Liu, 2002). To accomplish their interactive events, presenters had to break the presentation steadiness and, to write audience answers, they usually left the presentation and moved on to a white board, a flipchart, or other software. Thus, POWERPOINT became misaligned with the evolved paradigm. The iSlides technology solved the misalignment since it allowed capturing audience contributions directly into POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. However, presenters and audiences had other unsolved frustrations. To capture audience contributions, presenters feel compelled to stay by the keyboard to write their audiences inputs. As the number of audience members participating was large, most wishing that their contributions were also considered, felt frustrated because presenters did not select their inputs. Additionally, a third frustration arose: not all contributions from the audience can be displayed if they are more numerous than required for proper deployment in projection time. 
     The iSlidesMobile system and methods, and their associated services, overcome these frustrations, since they allow remote sending, editing, and deleting text objects and numeric data from mobile devices. The iSlidesMobile system and methods associated services are two Web Add-ins for POWERPOINT and data managing, processing, and communicating services. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     State of the Art 
     The state of the art is reviewed in terms of searches into the literature, commercially available software and applied and granted patents. 
     a) Research and Development Literature 
     The literature confirms that POWERPOINT is a universally used tool. Savoy (2009, 258) argues that “POWERPOINT is a software tool that has become a presentation staple in lecture halls, conference rooms, and computer-based training”. Poortema (2007) states that there is little research about POWERPOINT uses in business, analyzes a case study in management and concludes that POWERPOINT is the most used tool in offices and that supporting presentations at meetings is the prime usage. Guerney (2001) reports that 69% of teachers from kindergarten to 12th grade use POWERPOINT. Chia-Li (2015) showed that POWERPOINT is the most frequently used technology in college classrooms. Schrad (2010) stated that PowerPoint has become the norm in large university lecture classes. 
     The literature also reports on POWERPOINT significant uses. Chan (2016) describes that POWERPOINT is an assumed tool in business since entrepreneurs pursue investors for a meeting to ask financing through a short POWERPOINT presentation. Chou (2015) experimentally evaluated knowledge acquisition through using POWERPOINT and Prezi. He organized three treatment groups: POWERPOINT, Prezi, and traditional instructions. The results showed that instruction with POWERPOINT and Prezi was more effective compared with traditional instruction. Idem for conferences, Cox (2011) describes the usefulness of introducing embedded YouTube videos directly into POWERPOINT for conferencing. 
     Presenters to provide support to their interactive events began looking for alternative technologies, specifically for audience response systems. Harper (2009) reports the use of TurningPoint, a POWERPOINT Add-in, which uses an external server to display audience&#39;s vote or question answers. Dasa (2015) reports the use of Poll Everywhere, another POWERPOINT Add-in that displays audience voting using external services. Gokbulut (2020) reports that Kahoot and Mentimeter had a positive impact on teacher training students. 
     POWERPOINT has strong detractors. Gallo (2018) reports that Amazon&#39;s CEO banned POWERPOINT in meetings because stories are more persuasive than bullet point. Schrad (2010) shows that POWERPOINT exhibits low effectiveness level compared to other interactive methods. Shah (2012) uses POWERPOINT to present content and display questions during questions and answers sessions and uses other platforms to perform interactive events. Bumiller (2010, pA1) reports that General McChrystal, US and NATO forces in Afghanistan leader, when he saw a PowerPoint slide that modelled the complexity of the US military strategy, but looked more as a spaghetti dish, he said “When we understand that slide, we will have won the war”. 
     b) Commercially Available Software. 
     Internet searches showed that there are many POWERPOINT template suppliers. Some of them are Crystal Graphics, SmartDraw, Inspiration, and Free PowerPoint Templates. Crystal Graphics makes available templates, video backgrounds, pictures, charts, and diagrams, 3D character slides; and background music tracks (“Crystal Graphics”, n.d.). SmartDraw offers thousands of templates which may be filled in online and exported as image PowerPoint slides (“Smart Draw”, n.d.). Inspiration Software Inc. provides visual support for graphic organizers, concept mapping, mind mapping, webbing, out-lining, and graphs. All visual productions are transferable as image PowerPoint slides (“Inspiration”, n.d.). Free POWERPOINT Templates offers pre-made free templates under various categories, i.e. business/finance, abstract, objects, people, medicine/health, flowers, nature, education, and many others. Download gives access to a compress file with presentation file including one or more slides with one or more templates (“Free POWERPOINT Templates”, n.d.). 
     Internet searches also showed that there is an increasing number of audience response systems. Compton (2018) reviews seven of such systems, while Kubica (2019) reports over fifty of these systems. Our search gave fifteen software systems with certain proximity to what is claimed here. The systems are Poll Everywhere, Slido, Kahoot, Mentimeter, MeetingPulse, Beekast, Wooclap, DirectPoll, AhaSlides, Glisser, Ombea, Conferences i/o, Turning point, Participoll, Vevox. Closer examination filtered Poll Everywhere, Slido, Turning point, and Vevox as the more interesting ones. 
     Poll Everywhere is an audience voting platform. Via Web or SMS texting, Poll Everywhere captures polling, and answers and displays them graphically. The display may be done in POWERPOINT as a web page through an Add-ins (“Poll Everywhere”, n.d.). Slido is a Web-based platform for live audience interaction, through question/answer activities (voice and text) and surveys/voting. It enables participants to use their cell phones to speak and be heard on the presenter&#39;s PC. It may be integrated with POWERPOINT through a specialized application (“Slido”, n.d.). Turning Point is an audience engagement platform. It includes interactive live surveys. Focused on teaching/learning activities, its purpose is to increase participation, support active learning, and help improve student success. It may be integrated into POWERPOINT through the Turning Point VSTO add-in (“Turning Technologies”, n.d.). Vevox is a web-based application and platform for running interactive live surveys. It includes an advanced add-in for POWERPOINT that allows adding and managing questions (multiple choice, word cloud, or “rating”) directly on PowerPoint slides. Focused on voting activities, it may be integrated and managed from POWERPOINT through the Vevox VSTO add-in (“Vevox”, n.d.). 
     c) Patents 
     Using a semantic strategy, with U.S. Pat. No. 10,019,424 as a base, and searching with PatSnap software, there were 999 documents found. 818 of these were in the United States of America register, 76 in WIPO&#39;s, 48 in China&#39;s, 22 in EPO&#39;s, 18 in Korea&#39;s, and the remainder 17 in 9 other registers. Further filters count down documents according to keywords as follows: Presentation provided 539 entries; Presentation slide gave 22; PowerPoint 16; Mobile device 6; PowerPoint slide show 2; Presentation and mobile device 5; Interaction 2. The closest documents were application WO 2010/149926 and patents CA 2,894,662 A1, and U.S. Pat. No. 9,154,531 B2. The application WO 2010/149926 A1 focusses on how a presentation software, e.g., PowerPoint, and a mobile device exchange data via Bluetooth, to answer fixed answer questions. Patent CA 2,894,662 A1 stores a presentation (POWERPOINT or other) on a server and users remotely control the view of the presentation in response to user inputs. Patent U.S. Pat. No. 9,154,531 B2 is a framework that enables participants of audio or web conferences to submit questions without disturbing the ongoing conference; POWERPOINT may be one of external tools to display conference contents. 
     d) State of the Art Interim Conclusion 
     A thorough analyzes of research and development papers, commercial web sites, and applications and patents worldwide, found no documents in which, on the one hand, POWERPOINT presenters, not only teachers but also business executives and conference speakers, may from their mobile devices control the presentation and manage the interactive events, not only asking fixed answer questions but also asking open ended questions that require a short phrase as answer as well as invite audience participation on a variety of interactive slides (diagrams, charts, diagram sequences, polls, surveys, tests). On the other hand, POWERPOINT audience, not only students but also meeting attendants and conference assistants, may from their mobile devices, locally or remotely, follow the POWERPOINT slide titles and participate in the presenter&#39;s interactive events, not only responding fixed answer questions but also responding open ended questions that require a short phrase as answer as well as participate on a variety of interactive slides (diagrams, charts, diagram sequences, polls, surveys, tests). 
    
    
     
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       The drawings illustrate principles of the invention and, although not to scale, show relative dimensions. 
         FIG.  1    is a typical mobile device (smartphone, tablets) block diagram depicting the system requirements for the iSlidesMobile system and methods App to be installed. 
         FIG.  2    is a typical desktop or laptop block diagram depicting the system requirements for the two Add-ins Web to be installed in MS POWERPOINT 2013, or later, or MS POWERPOINT 365 and POWERPOINT Online. 
         FIG.  3    is a typical cloud computer server block diagram depicting the system requirements for the data communications, management, and processing services. 
         FIG.  4    is a block diagram representing the iSlidesMobile system and methods ecosystem and dialog with POWERPOINT Slide Show mode for remotely sending, editing, and deleting text objects and numerical data from presenter&#39;s PC and mobile device and audience&#39;s mobile devices. 
         FIG.  5    is a block diagram describing the iSlidesMobile system detailed internal components structure. 
         FIG.  6    is a block diagram describing the Functionality Web Add-ins for POWERPOINT system internal components structure. 
         FIG.  7    is a block diagram describing the Content Web Add-ins for POWERPOINT system internal components structure. 
         FIG.  8    is a block diagram describing the Data Management Service system internal components structure. 
         FIG.  9    is a block diagram describing the Data Processing Service layers. 
         FIG.  10    is a block diagram describing the Communication Service system internal components structure. 
         FIG.  11    is an UML sequence diagram to install iSlidesMobile for either presenter or audience mobile devices. 
         FIG.  12    is UML iSlidesMobile execution UML sequence diagram describing how presenter and audience collaboratively perform and interactive event in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
         FIG.  13    is iSlidesMobile presenter presentation control functionality diagram. 
         FIG.  14    is a block diagram of how audience members contribute to sending, editing, and deleting text objects into POWERPOINT Slide Show mode through iSlidesMobile App from their mobile devices. 
         FIG.  15    is a schematic view of the Sticky notes brainstorm in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
         FIG.  16    is iSlidesMobile presenter poll event design and activating diagram. 
         FIG.  17    is iSlidesMobile audience poll sending functionality diagram. 
         FIG.  18    is a block diagram of the POWERPOINT Slide Show mode displaying audience vote participation from mobile devices. 
         FIG.  19    is iSlidesMobile presenter survey interactive event design and activation diagram. 
         FIG.  20    is a block diagram of the POWERPOINT Slide Show mode displaying  FIG.  19   &#39;s survey interactive event results. 
         FIG.  21    is iSlidesMobile audience participation in survey response sending event diagram. 
         FIG.  22    is iSlidesMobile presenter test interactive event design and activation diagram. 
         FIG.  23    is a block diagram of the POWERPOINT Slide Show mode displaying  FIG.  22   &#39;s test interactive event results. 
         FIG.  24    is iSlidesMobile audience participation in test response sending event diagram. 
     
    
    
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The iSlidesMobile system and methods invention is packed as .apk and .ipa files to be installed in mobile devices with Android  113  and iOS  114  operating systems, respectively. On one hand it adds a new functionality to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode  409 , since it allows remote sending, editing, and deleting text objects and numeric data from mobile devices. On another hand, it solves POWERPOINT user-presenters  401  (i.e., meeting chairpersons; trainers, teachers, and lecturers; and conference speakers) and audience members  402  (i.e., meeting participants; trainees, pupils, and lecturers; and conference attendants) frustrations. To capture audience contributions, presenters must not stay by the keyboard to write their audiences inputs. Audience members may voluntarily and remotely send their contributions directly to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. Furthermore, if the number of contributions, sent by audience members, surpluses screen&#39;s display capacity, contributions may externally be processed  405  to be shown as an affinity synthesis in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
     The iSlidesMobile is a system and a set of methods. It is a system because it installs from the executable files iSlidesMobile.apk (for mobile devices based on the Android operating system  113 ) or iSlidesMobile.ipa (for mobile devices based on the iOS operating system  114 ). iSlidesMobile enhances POWERPOINT functionalities since it allows sending, editing, and deleting text objects in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode, remotely and directly from mobile device, and for either presential or Web meetings, classes, lectures, conference and other interactive or collaborative events. iSlidesMobile is a set of methods since POWERPOINT users (presenters and audience members) follow collection of steps to instantiate sending, editing, and deleting text objects and numerical data in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
     iSlidesMobile provides POWERPOINT presenters&#39; mobile devices with two functionalities to work remotely with POWERPOINT: control the presentation and set up and manage interactive slides in Slide Show mode. First, presenters may control their POWERPOINT presentation through launching  1332  and ending  1333  an open presentation, they may move slides forward  1334  or back  1331 , as well as skip to non-adjacent slides forward or back  132 . Second, to deploy interactive events with active and massive audience participation, iSlidesMobile provides presenters with tools to organize and manage four types of POWERPOINT inserted interactive slides (iSlides): text objects  142 , poll  160 , survey  190 , and test  220 . iSlidesMobile tools for text objects type of interactive slides include dialogs to send, edit, and delete text objects, as well as buttons to Start synthesis, for when the number of text objects exceed screen display capacity. For pool, survey, and test interactive slide types, iSlidesMobile tools contain buttons to set up the interactive event, such as name title, insert options/choices, and marking the right one. It also contains buttons to manage the interactive event, such as start/stop responses/votes, show/hide results, and show right response, if applicable. 
     iSlidesMobile provides POWERPOINT audience members&#39; mobile devices with two functionalities to work remotely with POWERPOINT: follow presentation and enter interactive events and send text objects and numerical data directly to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. iSlidesMobile provides audience members&#39; mobile devices with Slide Selector interfaces that shows slides titles, allowing the audience to follow intuitively the presentation. To differentiate them, the interactive slides titles include a pencil icon and, pressing on them, audience members may enter the interactive slide to participate sending text or numerical messages. iSlidesMobile provides tools for audience voluntarily participate in the edition of the iSlides that the presenter has on POWERPOINT display via sending, editing, and deleting own text objects, and sending numerical data representing response choice or vote. 
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC EMBODIMENTS 
     The system 
     The iSlidesMobile system works in whatever mobile device that supports software Apps. Such systems are mobile devices with Android and iOS operation systems. The iSlidesMobile system works independently from the host device configuration, which may vary from device to device. 
     The iSlidesMobile system purpose is to provide support to interactive events when POWERPOINT is used in meetings, classes, lectures, and conferences. It works jointly with one or more Add-ins Web previously installed in POWERPOINT, and cloud services for data management, processing, and communicating. These components make up the iSlidesMobile ecosystem. The iSlidesMobile system sends messages that get processed by the data services and passed them to the POWERPOINT&#39;s Contents Add-ins Web to be displayed in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. The following  FIGS.  1  to  10    illustrate the iSlidesMobile system and its technological environment. 
       FIG.  1    is a typical mobile device block diagram illustrating the system requirements for the iSlidesMobile App to be installed in a mobile device. Its basic components are cell phone  100 , application processor  110 , and network management  14 ,  15 ,  16 . The cell phone baseband processor handles the cellular transmission through the subscriber identification module (SIM)  10 , a microcontroller unit (MCU)  102 , and a radio frequency transmitter and receiver (RF transceiver)  104 . The application processor includes a microcontroller unit (MCU)  111  and associated RAM and ROM  112  as well as a LSD screen  11  and secured digital (SD) non-volatile memory card  12  for saving Apps such as iSlidesMobile.apk and iSlidesMobile.ipa for Android and iOS operating systems. The network management includes, among others, Bluetooth  14 , WLAN  15 , GPS  16 . Each has radio transmitter and receiver, CPU, RAM, and ROM. 
       FIG.  2    is a typical desktop or laptop block diagram depicting the system requirements for the functionalities and contents Add-ins Web to be activated in MS POWERPOINT 2013, or later, or MS POWERPOINT 365 for either Windows or MacOS operating systems. The block diagram represents a desktop or laptop system, which the invention feeds with data messages. The block diagram has a central processor unit  201 , a random access memory  202  and an internal bus  203 , this latter connects all computer components. The system also includes hard disk(s)  204 , display unit  205 , keyboard  206  and mouse  2107 . Further, the system may likewise comprise ports for peripheral devices connection  208  such as audio jack, Ethernet, USB, HDMI, and others, Wi-Fi network connectivity  209 , printer(s)  210  and other devices  211 . The most relevant element for the invention to work is the installation of the functionalities Add-ins Web and content Add-ins Web software. The latter passes the messages for POWERPOINT to display in its Slide Show mode. 
       FIG.  3    is a typical computer server block diagram depicting the system requirements for the data communications, management, and processing services to be installed. Computer cloud service has three united components that are frontend, Internet, and backend. The frontend are the client applications  31  requiring the cloud services. The backend  33  provides the services with security  331  and management  332 . The backend also houses services  333  such as the services for data management, processing and communications required by iSlidesMobile to send and edit objects and texts in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. Frontend and backend exchange data through the Internet  32 . 
       FIG.  4    is a block diagram representing how the iSlidesMobile dialogs with POWERPOINT Slide Show mode and remotely send and edit objects and text from mobile devices presenter&#39;s and audience&#39;s mobile devices. The iSlidesMobile system and methods  400  handles (send and receives) remote messages originated, or for, presenters  401  and audience  402  mobile devices  403  and  404 . The message passes forward and backward to the data management, processing, and communications services  405 , where is operated according to parameters in their metadata. The communication service in  405  routes the message to the Contents iSlides Add-ins Web  406 , which through Microsoft API  407  instruct the presentation software POWERPOINT 408, installed in presenters&#39; desktop  409 , to be displayed in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode  410 . 
       FIG.  5    is a block diagram describing the iSlidesMobile system internal components structure. The iSlidesMobile  50  is a hybrid App for Android and iOS mobile devices operating systems. It was built through the Cordova platform  51 . Programming  511  produced a Web site  53 , through the Ionic platform  54 , giving access to Angular framework  541 , giving access to HTMLS  542  and other programming resources  543 ,  544  and  545 . The Cordova platform also gave access to an external plugin  512  to manage App authentication through an external login service. 
       FIG.  6    is the Add-ins Functionality system  61  that consists of the XML Manifest  611  and the functionality Web App  64 . The Manifest defines the insertion into MS POWERPOINT  62  of the iSlides command ribbon  621  and the iSlides Task Pane  622 , which are displayed in design mode depending on the POWERPOINT version. Commands are executed through the Web App of functionalities  64 . The Web App features are available as a Web platform  63 , which uses Angular framework  631 , through HTMLS  634 , CSS  636 , and other web technologies, including Controllers  635 , Modules  637 , JavaScript Framework for Office, Office.js  632 , and the connection module for the use of an external  65  authentication service  633 . 
       FIG.  7    is the Add-ins Content system  71  that consists of the XML Manifest  711  and the Content Web App  74 , which manages iSlides (interactive slides). The Manifest defines web content insertion, that is, iSlide content  721  into a MS POWERPOINT slide  72 . The Web App content (iSlide) is available as a Web platform  73 , which uses Angular framework  731  and web technologies, including HTMLS  734 , CSS  736 , Controllers  735 , Modules  737 , JavaScript Framework for Office, Office.js  732 , and the connection module  733  for the use of an external authentication service  75 . 
       FIG.  8    is the data management service  82  corresponds to a Web service  81  that operates over Node.js using the Express modules  814  to enable the web server and Mysql  815  to establish communication with the database  831  available on the Database Server  83 . Management service capabilities are available through the API  811 , which is a representational state transfer (REST), and is implemented by Module  812  and Controller  813  resources. 
       FIG.  9    is a block diagram of the data processing service layers. Top down, the data processing service has five layers: application  91 , services  92 , scientific functions  93 , utility functions  94 , and data structures  95 . The application layer is the short phrases synthesizer  911 , which receives an array of several short phrases and a k number of clusters to synthesize the array. It returns k phrases, each representing the k clusters. The services layer has five services at least. The stemming service  921  that lemmatize the array words; the vectorizing service  922  that codes words with numbers; the clustering service  923  that groups phrases by code recurrences; the representative selecting  924  that picks a phrase representing the cluster; and other processing services such as statistical or other numerical computations. The scientific functions are the service layer core algorithms that perform the actual processing. It includes the Porter indexing (Porter, 2006)  931  to stem words, the TF IDF (term frequency—inverse document frequency) (Manning, 2008)  932  to code words, the K-means algorithm (Arthur, 2007)  933  for phrase similarity grouping, the phrase&#39;s nearest distance to a centroid  934  to select the group representative, and other scientific functions  935  to carry out numerical computations such as statistical and other. The utility function has the data processing function  941  that puts together the results of previous scientific calculations. The data structures layer has at least two structures: JSON  951  that packs data arrays and cluster  952  that contains an array of short phrases. 
       FIG.  10    is a block diagram describing the Communication Service system internal components structure. The Communication Service  102  corresponds to a Web service  101  that works over Node.js using the Express modules  1014  to enable the web server and Socket.IO  1012  as a communication protocol to establish connections with clients (iSlidesMobile, iSlides add-in functionalities, iSlides add-in content). The capabilities of the service are exposed by the communication API  1011 , which is implemented by Modules  1015  and Controllers  1013  resources. 
     The Methods 
     The iSlidesMobile methods will work if, first, iSlidesMobile App (software application) is installed in presenters and audience mobile devices, either they have android or iOS operation systems. Second, POWERPOINT presentation software and Functionalities iSlides Add-ins Web and Contents iSlides Add-ins Web are in the presenter&#39; desktop or laptop system. Third, presenter and audience have Internet connections to interchange mobile devices messages with POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
     There are two methods associated to iSlidesMobile when used by POWERPOINT Slide Show presenters and one method associated to iSlidesMobile when used by POWERPOINT Slide Show audiences. The first method allows the presenter to control the POWERPOINT Slide Show presentation from a mobile device. The second method allows the presenter to design and execute interactive events with the audience, who participate sending messages from their mobile devices to the POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. The presenter methods are described from  FIG.  11    to  FIG.  13   ,  FIG.  16   , and  FIG.  19   . Audience method is described in  FIG.  11   ,  FIG.  12   ,  FIG.  14   ,  FIG.  18    and  FIG.  20   . While  FIG.  15   ,  FIG.  17    and  FIG.  21    are illustrations of how POWERPOINT Slide Show mode shows contributions from audience members mobile devices. 
       FIG.  11    is an UML sequence diagram to install iSlidesMobile for either presenter or audience mobile devices. It starts by these users starting a browser  1101  and getting it on screen  1102 . The users then open a virtual store (i.e., Google Play or Apple Store)  1103  and one of their home pages opens  1104 . Next users search for the iSlidesMobile App  1105 , once found, it is selected for installation  1106 . Though the mobile device operating systems, the iSlidesMobile App is unpacked into the device&#39;s SD card  1107 . Once unpacked  1108  and through the operating system, users may configure the iSlidesMobile App  1109 . Finally, the virtual store  1110  and browser  1111  may be closed. 
       FIG.  12    is an UML iSlidesMobile execution UML sequence diagram describing how presenter and audience collaboratively perform and interactive event in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. It starts with the presenter login in its mobile device iSlidesMobile App  1201  and activating an iSlides in the desk top computer, through the Contents Add-ins Web in POWERPOINT and setting up a predesigned interactive event  1202 . Then, the iSlides Contents Add-in Web displays the interactive event in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode to the audience  1203  and the connection code is displayed  1204 . At any previous moment, the audience logged in their iSlidesMobile App  1205  and inserted the connecting code  1206 . The audience select, from the slide sorter on their mobile device screen, the interactive event iSlide  1207  and begin sending/editing/deleting text objects to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode  1208 ; they can repeat this action as many time as they desire or have time to do it  1209 . The presenter may move to reorder the text objects  1210 . Next, the presenter ends the interactive event  1211  and move on the presentation or logout from the iSlidesMobile App  1212 . 
       FIG.  13    is an iSlidesMobile presenter touch screen functionalities block diagram. These functionalities allow the presenter to control POWERPOINT Slide Show mode from a mobile device. The diagram shows three distinctive sectors: The Slide Selector  130 , as the title to the functionalities available, and a menu to access to App functions  131 ; the slides pane  132  and the presentation control touch buttons  133 . The menu gives access to information about the user profile  1311 , reconnection facility  1312 , close menu to exit it  1313 , logout to leave the App  1315 , and information about the App version  1315 . 
     The Slide pane is a facsimile that displays the titles of all slides in the presentation. The first, in the scheme, is a typical POWERPOINT presentation title slide  1321 ; next, there is a conventional POWERPOINT bullet slide  1322 ; the following slide is an interactive iSlide and is distinguished by a pencil icon, representing its sending, editing, and deleting capabilities in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode  1313 ; if a slide has no title, it is shown with its position number  1324 . Access to the slide is gained through touching on its title. The presentation control buttons allow the presenter to start presentation  1332  and end presentation  1333 . The presenter can also advance slides forward  1334  and backward  1331 . Additionally, the presenter may jump forward and backward from one slide to another that is not next to it. 
     The audience Slide Selector version does not include the functionalities to control the presentation. 
     The contents iSlides Add-ins Web include several iSlides that manage text objects, such as sticky notes. All these receive audience contributions in a similar way. 
       FIG.  14    is a block diagram of how audience members contribute to the sending, editing, and deleting text objects into POWERPOINT Slide Show mode through iSlidesMobile App from their mobile devices. Once the presenter launches an interactive iSlide to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode, such as a Sticky Note iSlide and displays the connection code, audience members may activate their iSlidesMobile App. After authentication, the Slide Selector  140  is shown on the mobile&#39;s screen. Among other POWERPOINT slides, a sticky note iSlide is displayed with its distinctive pencil icon  1403 . If the iSlide is emphasized on the mobile screen means that the iSlide is displayed in POWERPOINT slideshow mode and can be remotely accessed from the mobile device. Touching on the sticky note highlighted iSlide give access to Sticky Note editor  141 , which has on its left an arrow to return to Slide Selector and a + sign to enter the Add Sticky Note dialog  142 . Inserting the text for the note is mandatory  1421 , while selecting sticky note color is optional  1422 . The button Send Sticky Note  1423  remotely sends the sticky to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. Sent sticky notes are listed on the audience member mobile device screen  144 , in their selected colors. Touching on any of them opens a sticky note menu  145  to edit  1451 , delete  1452  or cancel the action  1453 . If editing is selected, an Edit Sticky Note dialog open  146 . The text to be edited is shown  1461  and the keyboard is activated. Color can also be changed  1462 . Pressing Save Changes  1463  updates sticky note contents in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
     There are several interactive slides (iSlides) available with the POWERPOINT content Add ins Web that may receive text object from the audience mobile devices.  FIG.  15    illustrates how POWERPOINT Slide Show mode shows audience contributions from their mobile devices on a Sticky note iSlides. 
       FIG.  16    is an iSlidesMobile presenter setup and starting poll event diagram. The example chosen to illustrate the iSlidesMobile poll capabilities is the column chart iSlide. Once the interactive slide is inserted into POWERPOINT design panel through the Add-ins Web, presenters may set it up via desktop or iSlidesMobile App. If they use the App, they must launch to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode from the presentation control buttons at the Slide Selector lower sector. Then select the Column Chart iSlide and arrive to the Column Chart interface  160 . It has the arrow backwards  1600  to return to the Slide Selector and a sign ‘+’  1601  to start its configuration. Bellow there are two headers: Item  1602  or what is voted and Value  1603  or the number of votes for this example. Controls to manage the activity appear dimmed at the screen bottom to Reset  1604  the activity, Start/Stop voting  1605  the choice, and Show results  1606 . Pressing the plus sign opens a menu to Change Title  1607 , give a name to item  1608 , give a name to value  1609  and Add Item  1610 . Selecting Change Title  1607 , or Change item title  1608 , or Change value title  1609  have a similar dialog to the Change Title  161  dialog shown, where a text box prompts its insertion  1611 . Pressing Change Title sends the new text to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. Selecting the Add item  1610  from the menu, a Add Item  162  dialog opens. It has the arrow backwards  1621  to return to the Column Chart  160  menu. It also has an insert text box  1622  and the Send Item button  1623  that sends the text to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. After completing the list of items, the Column Chart panel  163  shows the list  1603  to  1633 . The interactive event may be launched by pressing Start Voting  1635  and voting becomes available in audience members mobile devices. The voting is active until the Stop Voting button  1636  is pressed and results may be shown to the audience pressing Show results  1636 . 
       FIG.  17    is an iSlidesMobile audience participation in vote sending event diagram. Once the presenter starts the interactive event, audience members may enter to the Column Chart dialog  170  from their mobile device Slide Selector. Item  1701  and Value  1702  instances appear under the heading. Options for audience voting  1703  to  1705  are also shown, with a round icon to mark the option. Finally, pressing the Send option button sends the option Web to be shown in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
       FIG.  18    is a schematic view of the polling activity results displayed in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode, names and numbers are fictitious. 
       FIG.  19    is an iSlidesMobile presenter survey interactive event setup diagram. Once a survey iSlide type is inserted into POWERPOINT design mode to support an interactive event, its setup may be carried out from either desktop or mobile device, through the iSlidesMobile App. If the latter was selected, the POWERPOINT Slide Show may be launched directly from the mobile device through the control buttons  133  and the survey iSlide selected from the Slide Selector  130 . The Survey initial menu  190  shows an arrow backwards  1901  to return to the Slide Selector and a sign ‘+’  1902  to start its configuration. Controls to manage the activity appear dimmed at the screen bottom to Reset  1903  the activity, Start selecting  1904  the choice, Show results  1905 , and show the right  1906  choice. Pressing the plus sign opens a menu to Change Title  1907 , Add Statement  1908  to put the choice selection under context, and choice  1909  to complete the setup. The Add Statement menu  191  has the backward arrow to go back and a text area to insert the statement  1911 . The Send Statement button  1912  sends it to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. The Add Choice menu  192  has the backward arrow to go back as well as an area to insert the choice  1921  and a select box for it is the right choice  1922 . The Send Choice button  1923  sends it to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. After all choices are entered, the right one was marked, and returning to the Survey panel  193 , the statement  1911  appears, choices are listed, and the interactive event control buttons light up. Reset  1934 , Start/Stop selection  1935 , Show results  1936 , and Show right  1937  are now available. Pressing the Start selection button  1935  begins audience member participation through selecting the perceived choice from their mobile devices. After pressing the Start selection button, its turns red and changes to Stop selection. While audience members select their choice, the presenter&#39;s mobile shows the number of answers being responded  1941 . Pressing the Stop selection button cancels selecting choice by audience members. Pressing the Show results  1936 , numbers and percentages are displayed in POWER-POINT Slide Show mode. Pressing the Show right button enhances in green the correct choice in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
       FIG.  20    is an iSlidesMobile audience participation in survey response sending event diagram. Once the presenter begins the interactive event, audience members may enter to the survey response dialog  200  from their mobile device Slide Selector. The dialog shows the Statement  2001  and displays the choices available  2002  through  2004 , with a round icon to select the choice. Finally, pressing the Send choice button  2005  sends the option to be shown in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
       FIG.  21    is a schematic view of the Survey response activity displayed in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
       FIG.  22    is an iSlidesMobile presenter Test interactive event setup diagram. Once a Test iSlide type is inserted into POWERPOINT design mode to support an interactive event, its setup may be carried out from either desktop or mobile device, through the iSlidesMobile App. If the latter was selected, the POWERPOINT Slide Show may be launched directly from the mobile device through the control buttons  133  and the Test iSlide selected from the Slide Selector  130 . The Test initial menu  220  shows an arrow backwards  2201  to return to the Slide Selector and a sign ‘+’  2202  to start its configuration. Controls to manage the activity appear dimmed at the screen bottom to Reset  2203  the activity, Start responding  2204 , Show results  2205 , and Show the right  2206  choice. Pressing the plus sign  2202  opens a menu to Change Title  2207 , Add Statement  2208  to put the choice selection under context, and choice  2209  to complete the setup. The Add Statement menu  221  has the backward arrow to go back and a text area to insert the statement  2211 . The Send Statement button  2212  sends it to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. The Add Choice menu  222  has the backward arrow to go back as well as an area to insert the choice  2221  and a select box to mark if it is the right choice  2222 . The Send Choice button  2223  sends it to POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. After all choices are entered, the right one was marked, and returning to the Test panel  223 , the statement  2211  appears, choices are listed, and the interactive event control buttons light up. Reset  2234 , Start/Stop selection  2235 , Show results  2236 , and Show right  2237  are now available. Pressing the Start selection button  2235  activate audience member participation through selecting the perceived choice from their mobile devices. After pressing the Start selection button, its turns red and changes to Stop selection. While audience members select their choice, the presenter&#39;s mobile shows the number of answers being responded  2241 . Pressing the Stop selection button cancels selecting choice by audience members. Pressing the Show results  2236 , numbers and percentages are displayed in POWER-POINT Slide Show mode. Pressing the Show right button enhances in green the correct choice in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
       FIG.  23    is an iSlidesMobile audience participation in test response sending interactive event diagram. Once the presenter starts the interactive event, audience members may enter to the test response dialog  200  from their mobile device Slide Selector. The dialog shows the Statement  2001  and displays the choices available  2002  through  2004 , with a round icon to select the choice. Finally, pressing the Send choice button  2005  sends the option to be shown in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode. 
       FIG.  24    is a schematic view of the Test response activity displayed in POWERPOINT Slide Show mode.