Patent ID: 8042064

Claim:
A method for preparing and delivering virtual tour content, and the method includes the steps: (A) providing at a back-end of an http web server, a super administrator module electronically issuing a tour owner license (I) for operating an administrative module, and the license is issued to a tour owner, and the respective tour owner is one of a large plurality of tour owners, wherein the license includes a permit for creating a tour of hotspots with a predetermined initial hotspot for the respective tour and (II) for managing and adding data and relationship into a relational database for touring; (B) maintaining the relational database for transforming and extracting an elected virtual tour presentation from the data and relationship of the relational database for touring so that respective multimedia tour presentations are according to tour owner and geographical location; (C) accepting at a back-end of the http web server, the administrative module electronically from the respective licensed tour owner (I) a coordinated package of multimedia tour content wherein said content is organized as hotspots, and (II) meta-rules for the respective hotspots wherein said meta-rules consisting of setting category for the tour, for turning the hotspot on/off, and for activating/de-activating the tour; (D) executing at the http web server, a predetermined ensemble software instructions consisting of (I) applying the meta-rules to the coordinated package of multimedia tour content, (II) assembling the coordinated package of multimedia tour content onto a tour of the respective hotspots, (III) activating a relational database to the coordinated package of tour content, (IV) indexing the hotspots by country and by city therein, (V) integrating this package of tour content into a collection of multimedia content for the large plurality of tours, and (VI) storing respective control rules for managing presentation of each tour to a front-end user; and (E) executing at a front-end of the http web server, a predetermined ensemble of software instructions (I) electronically allowing a user to select a tour from the large plurality of tours wherein said selection includes parameters of by country and by city therein, and (II) electronically delivering the tour to the user, wherein the tour is (a) an organized collection of multimedia content hotspots on a map, (b) the respective control rules for managing navigation of these hotspots, and (c) the respective control rules for presentation of the multimedia content thereat.