Patent Document ID: 9367522
Application ID: 13446785

Base Claim:
1. A method for editing an electronic presentation, the method comprising: providing an electronic presentation editing interface for editing an electronic presentation, wherein the interface comprises: a digital canvas comprising a plurality of canvas objects in a plurality of canvas layers; a digital timeline comprising a plurality of timeline objects, a time axis, and a graphical indicia on the time axis that represents a pause in the electronic presentation, wherein: each canvas object in the plurality of canvas objects is linked to a respective timeline object; a position of a timeline object on the digital timeline is indicative of a time and a canvas layer that a linked canvas object is displayed on the digital canvas; the position of the timeline object includes a first time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas, a second time coordinate on the time axis indicative of when the linked canvas object disappears from the digital canvas, and a layer coordinate indicative of a canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas; the graphical indicia extends over all layer coordinates that are displayed in the digital timeline; and the digital timeline further comprises a marker on the digital timeline, wherein a position of the marker is indicative of a time corresponding to a current view of the digital canvas, and wherein when the position of the marker coincides with the graphical indicia on the time axis, each canvas object linked to a timeline object that coincides with the position of the marker is paused.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interface is configured to enable a user to modify the layer coordinate of the timeline object in the digital timeline to modify the canvas layer in which the linked canvas object appears in the digital canvas.