Patent ID: 8473847

Claim:
A method for comparing a plurality of slide decks, the method comprising: receiving a first slide deck to be compared, the first slide deck comprised of a first plurality of presentation slides, and receiving a second slide deck to be compared, the second slide deck comprised of a second plurality of presentation slides; receiving a selection of a comparison theme to be applied for comparing the first slide deck and the second slide deck; identifying, based on one or more parameters indicated in the comparison theme, a difference between each presentation slide of the first plurality of presentation slides and a corresponding presentation slide of the second plurality of presentation slides; and transmitting a comparison display of the first slide deck and the second slide deck to a remote computer in order to cause the remote computer to display the comparison as a concurrent single view comprised of: a slide selector to present a plurality of thumbnail pairs, each of the plurality of thumbnail pairs including a first thumbnail view of a presentation slide from the first plurality of presentation slides and a thumbnail view of a corresponding presentation slide from the second plurality of presentation slides; a slide pair viewer to present an expanded view of a first presentation slide and a second presentation slide included in a selected one of the plurality of thumbnail pairs, wherein the expanded view provides a visual markup of the difference between the first presentation slide and the second presentation slide; and a slide change summary to present a navigable comparison report wherein the navigable comparison report includes one or more difference values wherein each of the one or more difference values corresponds to a particular difference between the first presentation slide and the second presentation slide displayed in the slide pair viewer, and wherein, upon a user selecting a particular difference value of the one or more difference values a first visual indicator corresponding to the particular difference value being highlighted in at least one of the first presentation slide and the second presentation slide displayed in the slide pair viewer.