Patent ID: 7434165

Claim:
A method of organizing a plurality of presentations, each of the plurality of presentations including a plurality of presentation slides, each of the presentation slides having content for display, and displaying the content of the presentation slides from the plurality of presentations to an audience as a cumulative presentation, comprising the following steps: providing through a user interface a listing of available individual presentation files, each of said presentation files corresponding to a respective presentation from the plurality of presentations; querying a user through said user interface to select presentations corresponding to said available individual presentation files and order the selected presentations as units into a selected presentation order for later display to the audience, under user control, of the content of the selected presentations as part of the cumulative presentation; displaying in said user interface a listing of presentations selected by said user for use during the cumulative presentation to the audience; and presenting said cumulative presentation on a display to the audience in accordance with said selected presentation order, wherein in presenting said cumulative presentation the presentation files corresponding to said selected presentations are maintained for individual execution by a presentation software application to display their content, wherein the selection of a presentation as a unit through the user interface by the user for use as part of said cumulative presentation automatically designates the presentation file corresponding to that presentation for later execution by the presentation software application and automatically provides access to the user during presentation of the cumulative presentation to the audience to all of the plurality of presentation slides from that selected presentation for selective display of the content of those presentation slides using the presentation software application under user control.