Patent ID: 8280541

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, an electronic document that includes a group of one or more multimedia objects capable of generating audio data; registering, by the computing device, first and second multimedia objects of the group of one or more multimedia objects, wherein registering the first and second multimedia objects comprises determining first and second multimedia object identifiers that identify the respective multimedia objects; receiving, by the computing device, first audio data generated by the registered first multimedia object and receiving second audio data generated by the registered second multimedia object; determining based on a dominant heuristic, by the computing device, that the second registered multimedia object is a dominant multimedia object, wherein the dominant heuristic indicates that the second registered multimedia object is a most probable multimedia object of the group of multimedia objects to be focused on by a user; in response to determining that the second registered multimedia object is the dominant multimedia object, determining, by the computing device, at least one configuration parameter configured to change a volume level associated with at least the registered first or second multimedia object, wherein the at least one configuration parameter defines one or more volume levels associated with the dominant multimedia object; in response to determining the at least one configuration parameter, determining based on the at least one configuration parameter, by the computing device, a first volume level of the first audio data and a second volume level of the second audio data; and outputting, to an output device, the first and second audio data at the respective first and second volume levels.