Patent ID: 8584042

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a static document with electronic content from a scanning operation performed on content in a tangible document; detecting one or more mobile devices within range of a wireless network; generating a printer dialog box display with a printer driver for user authoring of a multimedia thumbnail representation of the static document, wherein the printer dialog box display is automatically populated with the one or more detected mobile devices as potential targets; receiving user specification of a target from the potential targets, a duration, a resolution from one or more potential resolutions, and user input, if any, for creation of a multimedia thumbnail representation from the received static document through the generated display, wherein the one or more potential resolutions for the multimedia thumbnail representation are automatically populated in the printer dialog box display based on user specification of the selected target; identifying advertising content for inclusion into the multimedia thumbnail representation based on document content analysis of the static document; and generating the multimedia thumbnail representation of the static document, with the identified advertising content, for storage in a file with a scalable storage format for the target utilizing received target, duration, resolution, and user input, wherein the scalable storage format of the file stores two or more scalability levels of the generated multimedia thumbnail representation that can be saved at the target location, wherein generating the printer dialog box further comprises: populating the printer dialog box display with audible, visual and audiovisual electronic composition elements from the received electronic content, automatically selecting a set of one or more of the audible, visual and audiovisual electronic composition elements for inclusion into one or more presentation channels of the multimedia thumbnail representation based on the time and information content attributes, highlighting each thumbnail representation from the set of one or more audible, visual and audiovisual electronic composition elements automatically selected for inclusion into the multimedia thumbnail representation of the static document with a different type of border than electronic composition elements not automatically selected for inclusion, and receiving user selection within the printer dialog box display of at least one additional audible, visual or audiovisual electronic audiovisual composition element to be included in the multimedia thumbnail representation.