KR20140043394A - Techniques for generating custom objects representing content files - Google Patents

Abstract

Techniques for creating custom objects for content files are described. The device may include a logic device arranged to run a montage application that includes an authoring component that operates to create a tile object for a digital montage, the authoring component associating a content file with a presentation tile on the presentation surface of the digital montage. Receive a control indication, identify a content file type for the content file, and generate a tile object with information from the content file according to the content file type. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Description

TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING CUSTOM OBJECTS REPRESENTING CONTENT FILES}

The montage may include a collection of individual elements to form a single composite element. For example, a montage can include a composite picture consisting of several individual pictures, or a video sequence including a fast sequence of different images. Electronic montage systems are designed to create digital montages using digital content, such as composite web pages that include different constituent web pages provided from different web applications. At times, constituent web pages are organized according to a central theme, such as web pages associated with a given search term used by a search engine, or web pages steadily visited by a user and stored in a browser history. Often, component web pages are lower fidelity representations of real web pages due to the space limitations of composite web pages. Thus, the user can select a constituent web page that brings up a higher fidelity version of the selected web page for a deeper view.

However, as the amount of digital information increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to build digital montages in ways that provide meaningful information to users. More specifically, it is increasingly difficult to represent content from multiple content sources in a digital montage in a manner that allows a user to make an informed decision as to whether a particular content source is of interest. What these improvements needed was related to these and other reasons.

This summary is provided to introduce the selection of concepts to be described in more detail in the following detailed description in a simplified form. This summary is not intended to identify key or critical elements of the subject matter recited in a claim, nor is it intended to limit the scope of the subject matter recited in the claims.

Various embodiments generally relate to electronic montage systems. Some embodiments relate specifically to electronic montage systems configured to generate digital montages from heterogeneous data sources. Electronic montage systems can allow users to create customized digital montages with customized representations of data sources, thus allowing other users to quickly identify and select data sources of interest for closer observation. have. The electronic montage system can publish customized digital montages to other users through a publishing model, a messaging model, or a combination of publishing and messaging models.

In one embodiment, for example, the device may include a logic device configured to execute a montage application. The logic device may, for example, comprise a processing system having a processor and a memory. The montage application provides a presentation surface with multiple presentation tiles, receives control instructions associating content files with presentation tiles, and generates tile objects for content files based on content file types for the content files. It can include authoring components that generate and operate to store presentation surfaces and tile objects as montages.

The montage application may further include an authoring component that operates to create a tile object for the digital montage. The authoring component receives control instructions to associate the content file with the presentation tile on the presentation surface of the digital montage, identifies the content file type for the content file, and generates a tile object with information from the content file according to the content file type. can do. The authoring component may create a tile object as an object surface with information selected from content files embedded within one or more tile object containers.

The montage application creates a first user interface view to present each tile object within each associated presentation tile of the presentation surface, receives control instructions to select a tile object, and presents a content file corresponding to the tile object. And may further include a presentation component operative to generate a second user interface view.

These and other features and advantages will be apparent from the reading of the following detailed description and review of the associated drawings. It is to be understood that the above general description and the following detailed description are exemplary only, and not as a limitation of the aspects as claimed.

1 illustrates an embodiment of a montage system.
2 illustrates an embodiment of an authoring component.
3A illustrates an embodiment of a presentation surface.
3B shows an embodiment of a presentation surface with a tile object.
3C illustrates an embodiment of a tile object having a tile object container.
4 shows an example for an authoring component.
5 illustrates an embodiment of a messaging system.
6 illustrates an embodiment of a message flow of a messaging system.
7A illustrates an embodiment of a user interface view of a message.
7B illustrates an embodiment of a user interface view of a message.
7C illustrates an embodiment of a user interface view of a tile object.
7D illustrates an embodiment of a user interface view of a content file.
8A illustrates an embodiment of a logic flow for an authoring component for generating montages.
8B illustrates an embodiment of a logic flow for an authoring component for creating a tile object for montage.
9 illustrates an embodiment of a logic flow for a publishing component.
Figure 10 illustrates an embodiment of a computing architecture.

Various embodiments are generally directed to electronic montage systems arranged to generate digital montages from heterogeneous data sources. Electronic montage systems may allow users to create highly customized digital montages using content files generated by different software programs, such as, for example, application programs.

The digital montage can include one or more tile objects that contain a customized representation for the base content file. The tile object may include a representation, agent or "teaser" of the content file. A tile object is a concise set of information from an associated content file rendered in a manner that allows a content consumer to quickly and easily determine whether an associated content file is of interest and benefit from closer inspection of the associated content file. The tile object can be constructed using information selectively extracted from the content file and formatted according to the type definitions specifically built for the content file. Type definitions include detailed information about the content file, such as file extensions, data schemas, formatting controls, embedded objects, embedded code, properties, scripts, and other file specific information. The type definition also includes a set of rules related to the types of information to extract from the content file, formatting of the extracted information, multiple tile object versions to generate, and the like. In this way, a wider range of content files can be used to author digital montages, while constructing very typical tile objects that provide meaningful information to the viewer. This approach allows observers to easily read tile objects in a montage, identify a content file of interest among many tile objects, and select a tile object to quickly retrieve a content file for closer inspection. As a result, embodiments may improve the availability, reduction, modularity, scalability, or interoperability for an operator, device, or network.

Figure 1 shows a block diagram of a montage system 100 having a montage application 140. In one embodiment, for example, montage system 100 and montage application 140 may include various components, such as components 110 and 130, for example. As used herein, the terms “system,” “application,” and “component” refer to a computer-related entity that includes hardware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or running software. It is intended to be. For example, a component may be implemented as a process running on a processor, processor, hard disk drive, multiple storage drives (of optical and / or magnetic storage media), objects, executable files, threads of execution, programs, and / or computers. have. For example, both an application running on a server and a server may be components. One or more components can reside within a process and / or thread of execution, and one component can be localized on one computer and / or distributed between two or more computers as needed for a given implementation. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, the montage system 100 and the montage application 140 may be implemented by an electronic device. Examples of electronic devices are mobile devices, personal digital assistants, mobile computing devices, smartphones, cellular phones, handsets, one-way pagers, two-way pagers, messaging devices, computers, personal computers (PCs), desktop computers, laptop computers, notebook computers , Handheld computers, tablet computers, servers, server arrays or server farms, web servers, network servers, internet servers, workstations, mini computers, mainframe computers, supercomputers, network appliances, web appliances, distributed computing systems , Multiprocessor system, processor-based system, gaming device, consumer electronics, programmable consumer electronics, television, digital television, set top box, wireless access point, base station, subscriber station, mobile subscriber sensor, wireless network controller, router, hub , Gateways, bridges, switches, machines, or any combination thereof It is, but is not limited to this. While the montage application 140 as shown in FIG. 1 has a limited number of elements within a given topology, the montage application 140 may include more or fewer elements in alternative topologies as needed for a given implementation. Will know.

The components 110,130 may be communicatively coupled through various types of communication media. The components 110 and 130 may coordinate operations between each other. Coordination may include unidirectional or bidirectional information exchange. For example, components 110 and 130 may communicate information in the form of signals communicated over communication media. The information may be implemented as signals assigned to various signal lines. In such assignments, each message is a signal. However, additional embodiments may utilize data messages as an alternative. Such data messages can be sent over various connections. An exemplary connection includes a parallel interface, a serial interface, and a bus interface.

In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, the montage system may include one or more content files 104-c and a montage application 140. The content files 104-c may include digital content generated by a software program, such as an application program, a web application, a web service, or the like. Montage application 140 may generate montage 120 using one or more selected content files 104-c. In one embodiment, one or more content files 104-c may be manually selected by a user. In one embodiment, the one or more content files 104-c are stored by the software program, such as some search terms and search results used by a search engine, or constantly stored by the user and stored in the browser history. It may be automatically selected using the content files 104-c.

Montage application 140 may include, among other things, authoring component 110 and presentation component 130. A user can author or create montage 120 using authoring component 110. A user who authors or creates a montage 120 may sometimes be referred to herein as a "content producer." The user can view or navigate the montage 120 using the presentation component 130. A user viewing or navigating montage 120 may sometimes be referred to herein as a "content consumer." Montage application 140 further includes other components as described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 2-11.

Authoring component 110 generally manages authoring operations of montage application 140, including generating user interface views and tools to enable content creators to create, author, or author montage 120. Can be. Montage 120 may include a single composite or collection of digital information elements from selected content files 104-c to form a single composite digital information element. Montage 120 may include a composite document having different constituent digital information elements generated by heterogeneous applications, such as application files for application programs, for example. Occasionally, structured digital information elements are organized according to a central theme, such as digital information elements associated with business projects, personal vacations or holidays. Often, the constituent digital information elements are lower fidelity representations of the actual content files 104-c due to the space limitations of the composite document. Thus, the content consumer can select the constituent digital information element to retrieve a higher fidelity version of the related content file 104-c for more detailed observation.

In one embodiment, for example, authoring component 110 may be arranged to provide presentation surface 122 for montage 120. Presentation surface 122 may include a number of presentation tiles 124-a that are defined or arranged in a predetermined topology on presentation surface 122. Authoring component 110 may receive control instructions 102-b that associate certain content files 104-c with certain presentation tiles 124-a. Authoring component 110 may generate objects 126-e for content files 104-c based on various content file types and type definitions associated with content files 104-c. . Authoring component 110 may store presentation surface 122 and tile objects 126-e as part of montage 120, which may then be published or distributed to various content consumers.

It is worth noting that "a", "b", "c" and similar indicators as used herein are intended to be variables that represent any positive integer. Thus, for example, if the implementation sets the value a = 5, the complete set of presentation tiles 124-a may be represented by the presentation tiles 124-1, 124-2, 124-3, 124-4, and 124. -5). Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

Authoring component 110 may initiate authoring operations for generating montage 120 by providing a presentation surface 122 having a number of presentation tiles 124-a. The presentation surface 122 may include any two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) topology space of any defined size having a coordinate system and boundaries. Examples of presentation surface 122 include documents for word processing programs, slides for presentation programs, worksheets for spreadsheet programs, notes for note programs, contact cards for personal information managers (PIMs), and application programs. May include other spaces typically used.

Presentation tile 124-a may include a defined area of presentation surface 122 that is designated to provide a separate set of information, such as tile object 126-e. The defined area can have any size, dimension or shape as required for a given implementation. A given presentation surface 122 may have any number of presentation tiles 124-a, with each presentation tile 124-a having all presentation tiles 124-a given a presentation surface 122. It may have a set of definitions (eg, size, shape, dimension, geometry) to ensure that it fits within the size. Definitions for presentation tiles 124-a include presentation surface 122, set of content files 104-c, associations between content files 104-c, and presentation tile 124-a, content. It may be dynamically changed based on tile objects 126-e associated with files 104-c, properties of the display, properties of the device, user preferences, and other factors. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In one embodiment, the content creator may customize the presentation surface 122 and the presentation tiles 124-a. The user interface for the montage application 140 can provide various controls that are uniquely defined to change the characteristics of the presentation surface 122 and the set of presentation tiles 124-a on the presentation surface 122. Examples of such controls may include, but are not limited to, drawing control, dimension control, size control, width control, height control, pixel control, refresh control, and the like. As an alternative, the content creator may select from any number of montage templates that provide different presentation surfaces and presentation tiles 124-a.

Authoring component 110 may receive control instructions 102-b that associate certain content files 104-c with certain presentation tiles 124-a. Authoring component 110 may generate user interface views and tools that enable a user to select content file 104a and associate content file 104a with presentation tile 124-a. For example, a user may use an input device, such as a pointing device, to select content file 104-1 and drag content file 104-1 onto presentation tile 124-1. The user selection can generate the control indication 102-b as a message or signal informing the authoring component 110 of the selection. Alternatively, the control instructions 102 can be generated programmatically in accordance with a content selection algorithm. For example, the content selection algorithm may have a set of defined rules for automatically selecting content files 104-c from the results of a search generated by a search engine, or by analysis of user browsing patterns. have. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

The content file 104-c may include any digital information element or digital content generated by a software program, such as an application program, web application, web service, client application, server application, system program, or the like. Different software programs can produce different types of digital content. Thus, digital content generated by different software programs may include heterogeneous digital content. Examples of content files 104-c are application files such as word processing files, spreadsheet files, presentation files, personal information manager (PIM) files, database files, publisher files, drawing files, note files, message files, project files, and the like. But may not be limited thereto. Additional examples of content files 104-c include audio files, image files, video files, audio / video (AV) files, animation files, game files, markup files, webpage files, social networking service (SNS) files, and the like. It can contain the same multimedia files. It will be appreciated that these are only some examples of content file 104-c, and embodiments are not limited to these examples.

In one embodiment, the content file 104-c is interrelated client applications, server applications designed for a specific operating system, such as the MICROSOFT® OFFICE suite of MICROSOFT WINDOWS® manufactured by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington. And a content file for the family of web services. Examples of client applications include MICROSOFT WORD, MICROSOFT EXCEL®, MICROSOFT POWERPOINT®, MICROSOFT OUTLOOK®, MICROSOFT ACCESS®, MICROSOFT INFOPATH®, MICROSOFT ONENOTE®, MICROSOFT PROJECT, MICROSOFT PUBLISHER, MICROSOFTOWORKSPACE, MICROSOFTOWORK REPRESENT , MICROSOFT OFFICE PICTURE MANAGER, MICROSOFT SHAREPOTNT DESIGNER, and MICROSOFT LYNC. Examples of server applications include, but are not limited to, MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT SERVER, MICROSOFT LYNC SERVER, MICROSOFT OFFICE FORMS SERVER, MICROSOFT OFFICE GROOVE® SERVER, MICROSOFT OFFICE PROJECT PORTFOLIO SERVER, and MICROSOFT OFFICE SERVER PERFORMANCEPOINT®. . Examples for web services may include, but are not limited to, MICROSOFT WINDOWS LIVE®, MICROSOFT OFFICE WEB APPLICATIONS, MICROSOFT OFFICE LIVE, MICROSOFT LIVE MEETING, MICROSOFT OFFICE PRODUCT WEB SITE, MICROSOFT UPDATE SERVER, and MICROSOFT OFFICE 365. Embodiments are not limited to these examples.

In one embodiment, the content file 104-c may include a content file personally authored by the same content creator of the montage application 140 to generate the montage 120. For example, assume that the content creator is the project manager of a business project and authored various application files related to the business project, such as word processing files, spreadsheet files, and presentation files, during the course of the business project. The content creator can use the authoring component 110 of the montage application 140 to generate an execution report with tile objects 126-e for each file personally authored by the content creator.

Authoring component 110 may generate tile objects 126-e for selected content files 104-c based on various content file types for content files 104-c. Once the content file 104-c is associated with the presentation tile 124-a, the authoring component 110 may generate a tile object 126-e for the selected content file 104-c. In one embodiment, a single content file 104-c may be associated with a single presentation tile 124-a, and thus a one-to-one correspondence may be formed. In one embodiment, multiple content files 104-c may be associated with a single presentation tile 124-a and thus a one-to-many correspondence may be formed.

The tile object 126-e may include a representation, agent, or "teaser" for the content file 104-c. The tile object 126-e is associated with the content that is rendered in a manner that allows the content consumer to quickly and easily determine if the related content file 104-c is interesting and allows for a closer inspection of the related content file 104-c. A concise set of information from the content file 104-c.

The tile object 126-e may be created using the content portion 106-d retrieved from the content file 104-c. The content portion 106-d may include a subset of the information derived or extracted from the complete set of information stored by the content file 104-c. One advantage of montage 120 is that information from different content files 104-c may be provided on a single presentation surface 122. However, each content file 104-c may contain a greater amount of information than can be provided within a defined area of a single presentation tile 124-a. For example, if the content file 104-1 includes a word processing document, the authoring component 110 may include all the information (eg, text, numbers, images, drawings, insertion objects) contained within the word processing document. Even if they are reduced as thumbnails, they may not fit within the available area or space of the presentation tile 124-1. Thus, authoring component 110 retrieves a subset of the information from the set of information contained within content source 104-1 and sets the subset of information to fit within the set of boundaries for presentation tile 124-1. Format, and store the subset of formatted information as tile object 126-1. For example, tile object 126-1 may include a combination of a title for a word processing document, a content creator (eg, author) of the word processing document, and an image from the word processing document.

The tile object 126-e may also include or be associated with a reference (eg, address, pointer, or link) to the corresponding content file 104-c. When the tile object 126-e is selected by the user for closer inspection, it will provide a maximum fidelity presentation of the content file 104-c by searching for the corresponding content file 104-c using a reference. Can be. In one embodiment, the reference may be to the content file 104-c as stored in a local data store. In this case, the reference can be used to retrieve the content file 104-c using peer to peer technology. In one embodiment, the reference may be to the content file 104-c as stored in the remote data store. In this case, the reference can be used to retrieve the content file 104-c using network storage and access techniques.

In one embodiment, a single content file 104-c may be associated with a single presentation tile 124-a. In this case, a single tile object 126-e is provided in each presentation tile 124-a. In one embodiment, multiple content files 104-c may be associated with a single presentation tile 124-a. In this case, multiple tile objects 126-e may be provided within a single presentation tile 124-a. At rendering time, the content consumer uses a selector tool provided by the presentation component 130 between the multiple tile objects 126-e provided in the different presentation tiles 124-a and also a single presentation tile ( Navigation can be made between a number of tile objects 126-e provided within 124-a), so that a content consumer can select a tile object 126-e of interest. For example, assume that a content creator associates photos from corresponding content files 104-1 through 104-100 with presentation tile 124-1. Thumbnails for 100 photos may be created as tile objects 126-1 through 126-100 and scaled to fit within a given dimension for presentation tile 124-1. The selector tool may be used to navigate between the tile objects 126-1 through 126-100 to select and enlarge a given photo.

Once the user has completed the authoring tasks for associating different content files 104-c with different presentation tiles 124-a of the presentation surface 122, the authoring component 110 has completed the presentation surface 122 and the tiles. Objects 126-e may be stored as part of montage 120.

Presentation component 130 may manage presentation operations for montage application 140, which generally includes the generation of user interface views and tools for providing montage 120 on an electronic display of an electronic device. In one embodiment, for example, presentation component 130 provides each tile object 126-e in each associated presentation tile 124-a on presentation surface 122 of montage 120. A first user interface view may be generated. Presentation component 130 receives control instructions 132-f for selecting tile object 126-e and provides a content file 104-c corresponding to the selected tile object 126-e. A second user interface view can be created.

2 shows a more detailed block diagram of the authoring component 110 of the montage application 140. Authoring component 110 retrieves certain portions of content from content file 104-c based on the type definition for content file 104-c type, thereby retrieving tile object 126 for related content file 104-c. -e) can be generated intelligently. For example, the portion of the content may include text from the content file 104-c, metadata for the content file 104-c, an object from the content file 104-c, or some combination thereof. have.

In one embodiment, the content file 104-c may be stored in a local data store 210 implemented within the same electronic device implementing the montage application 140. For example, the computing device may implement the montage application 140 using the content files 104-1 and 104-2 stored in the mass storage device of the computing device. In one embodiment, the content file 104-c may be stored in a remote data store 212 implemented by different electronic devices as implementing the montage application 140. For example, the computing device may implement the montage application 140 using the content file 104-3 stored in the mass storage device of the server device.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, authoring component 110 may include or implement multiple type modules 202-g. Each type module 202-g may correspond to a content file type for each content file 104-c. Examples of content file types for content file 104-c include word processing file types, spreadsheet file types, presentation file types, PIM file types, database file types, publisher file types, drawing file types, note file types, messages Application file types such as file types may be included, but are not limited thereto. Additional examples for content file 104-c include multimedia file types such as audio file type, image file type, video file type, AV file type, animation file type, game file type, markup file type, webpage type, and the like. It may include. It will be appreciated that these are only a few examples of content file types, and embodiments are not limited to these examples.

The type module 202-g may retrieve information from the content file 104-c based on the type definition 204-h for the content file type, and based on the retrieved information and type definition 204-h. To generate the tile object 126-e. The type definition 204-h defines definitions, rules, properties, methods for extracting selected portions from the content file 104-c and formatting the extracted portions within the defined area of the presentation tile 124-a. Or a set of events, coordinates or instructions. By implementing specific type definitions 204-h for specific content files 104-c, the authoring component 110 is unique for a particular context (eg, business, personal context) and associated content consumer set. Designed highly customized tile objects 126-e may be created. The type definition 204-h may be a default type definition provided with the montage application 140, or a user-defined type definition created using the montage application 140.

For example, content file 104-1 is a word processing document 104-1, type module 202 is for a word processing file type, and type definition 204-1 is for a word processing file type. Assume it is a set of definitions. The type definition 204-1 may include various types of information used to generate the tile object 126-1. For example, type definition 204-1 may be extended markup language formats (e.g. .docx, docm, .dotx, .dotm), binary formats (e.g. .doc, .dot) and open. It may include supported file formats associated with different versions of a word processing application, such as document formats (eg, .odt). Type definition 204-1 may include security certificates (eg, password, certificate, public or private key) for accessing encrypted files. Type definition 204-1 may include tools for accessing embedded or loaded code (eg, macros, extension packs) for a file. The type definition 204-1 may include supported fields in the document (eg, Ask field, Author field, Database field, Fillin field, Includepicture field, Includetext field, Mailmerge field). The type definition 204-1 may include rules for handling links to a document (eg, linked object, master document, template reference, linked cascading style sheet reference). Type definition 204-1 may include rules for processing data sets (eg, mail merge data). The type definition 204-1 may include rules for handling object linking and insertion (OLE) objects. Other information about the type definition 204-1 is possible, and embodiments are not limited in this regard.

The type definition 204-1 may also include a set of rules regarding the types of information to retrieve from the content file 104-1. For example, type definition 204-1 may include content and property classes (e.g., paragraphs or properties) from content file 104-1, and content object classes (e.g., for content file 104-1). For example, it may include three information classes and related rules including an image, an insertion object) and a content page class in the content file 104-1, or some combination thereof. It can be appreciated that any number of classes or categories can be defined for a given content file type.

In one embodiment, examples of content and attribute classes may be illustrated in Table 1 below.

In one embodiment, an example of a content object class may be illustrated in Table 2 as follows.

In one embodiment, an example of a content page class may be illustrated in Table 3 as follows.

The authoring component 110 uses the type module 202-1 and the associated type definition 204-1 to convert the content portion 106-1 from the content file 104-1 from the local data store 210. You can search for The type module 202-1 can then organize and format the content portion 106-1 to generate the tile object 126-1. For example, the rule for type definition 204-1 may specify that any text retrieved within a document, such as the first N paragraphs, retains the style formatting as specified in the document. Another rule may be that content properties that are not actual text in the document are formatted as normal style as specified in the document. Another rule may be that the ellipsis "..." is appended to the end of the text if the entire text of the content portion 106-1 does not fit within the dimensions of the presentation tile 124-1. These are only some example rules, other rules are possible. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In some examples, type definition 204-1 may be used to create tile object 126-1 from a combination of a content and property class, a content object class, and a content page class, which is sometimes informally referred to as a "mashup." You can define a set of rules. This provides a highly customized tile object 126-1 configured to represent the content of the content file 104-1.

In one embodiment, examples of different class combinations may be illustrated in Table 4 as follows.

The type definition 204-1 may also provide rules that restrict the tile object 126-1 to a single class or type within the class. For example, the rule defines type module 202-1 to use only content objects in the form of text from content file 104-1, or content objects in the form of images for content file 104-1. can do.

The type definition 204-1 may further identify a device for generating the tile object 126-1 for the content file 104-1. For example, the rule may define the type module 202-1 to interact with the server device to create and retrieve the tile object 126-1.

The type definition 204-1 may further provide a rule for generating a list of multiple versions of the tile object 126-1 to provide to the user for final selection. For example, a rule can generate P versions of tile object 126-1, where P can represent any positive integer (eg, P = 10). A list of multiple versions of tile object 126-1 may be generated according to the examples given in Table 5 below.

The type module 202-g may generate the tile object 126-e using additional information in addition to the information provided by the type definition 204-h. For example, the type module 202-g may receive input information for the presentation tile 124-a selected for the content file 104a. The type module 202-g may receive information such as location, size, shape, dimensions, geometry, boundaries, adjacent presentation tiles 124-a, neighboring presentation tiles 124-a, For example, if the type module 202-1 constructs a tile object 126-1 that is too large for the current dimensions of the presentation tile 124-1 using the type definition 204-1, The type module 202-1 uses the information about the neighboring or neighboring presentation tiles 124-2, 124-3 to provide a tile object 126-1 with larger current dimensions for the presentation tile 124-1. ) Can be increased to determine whether the dimensions for the presentation tiles 124-2, 124-3 can be reduced. Authoring component 110 may implement various custom algorithms to accommodate such examples.

3A illustrates one embodiment of a user interface view 300 generated by authoring component 110. The user interface view 300 includes a presentation surface 122 having a plurality of empty presentation tiles 124-a before any tile objects 126-e are generated for the content files 104-c. can do. User interface view 300 includes various graphical user interfaces for receiving control instructions 102-b from the author, such as copy command 302-1, cut command 302-2, and paste command 302-3. (GUI) tools 302-s may also be included. In addition to those shown in FIG. 3A, other GUI tools 302-s may be used, such as a move command, a paste special command, and the like.

The user interface view 300 can further include a file navigation tool 304. File navigation tool 304 may include a file manager application for a given OS designed to navigate a file system that stores data files. For example, file navigation tool 304 may be used to navigate and provide various content files 104-c from local data storage 210 or remote data storage 212. One example of a file navigation tool 304 may include a MICROSOFT WINDOWS EXPLORER designed for a MICROSOFT WINDOWS operating system. Other file navigation tools can also be used.

During authoring operations, authoring component 110 associates content file 104-1 with presentation tile 124-1 from an input device such as, for example, pointing device 308 or gesture 310 on a touch screen display. Control instructions 102-b may be received. For example, the content creator uses the file navigation tool 304 to generate the montage 120 by navigating and providing content files 104-c stored by one or both data stores 210, 212. can do. The content creator may select the content file 104-c for the presentation tile 124-a using various input devices, such as the pointing device 308 or gesture 310 on the touch screen display. As shown, the pointing device 308 can be used to select the content file 104-1 and move the content file 104-1 over the presentation tile 124-1 using drag and drop techniques. have. Alternatively, GUI input tools 302 can be used to perform similar operations.

3B illustrates one embodiment of a user interface view 320 generated by the authoring component 110. The user interface view 320 can include a presentation surface 122 filled with the presentation tile 124-1 after the tile object 126-1 is generated for the content file 104-1. If the content creator selects the content file 104-1 and associates it with the presentation tile 124-1, the authoring component 110 can identify the content file type for the content file 104-1. In this example, authoring component 110 identifies the content file type for content file 104-1 as an application file type, more specifically a word processing file. Authoring component 110 may use type module 202-1 and type definition 204-1 that are uniquely designed to generate tile objects from word processing files. The type module 202-1 can use the type definition 204-1 to retrieve the appropriate content portion 106-1 from the content file 104-1, where the content portion 106-1 is the content. And information about a characteristic class, a content object class, a content page class, or a combination of classes. The type module 202-1 generates the tile object 126-1 using the content portion 106-1, and provides the tile object 126-1 within the boundaries of the presentation tile 124-1. Can be.

3C illustrates an embodiment of a user interface 340 generated by authoring component 110. User interface view 340 illustrates the configuration of tile object 126-e once a given content file 104-c is associated with a corresponding presentation title 124-a.

As mentioned above, there are cases where it is desirable to have some kind of meaningful representation for a content file 104-c, such as a MICROSOFT OFFICE document, website, map, feed, article, weblog (blog), and the like. The tile object 126-e provides a customized representation for the content file 104-c that teases or induces a user to read or watch content from the content file 104-c. In order to be effective, one preferred feature of the tile object 126-e is that it should be readable and enforced as a teaser or preview of the content file 104-c. In addition, the tile object 126-e should be created automatically without any forced user input or interaction. However, in some cases, user interface controls (eg, GUI input tool 302) may be presented to selectively request user input.

To initiate the tile generation operation, authoring component 110 controls control 102-to associate the content file 104-c with the presentation tile 124-a of presentation surface 122 of digital montage 120. b) may be received. Authoring component 110 may identify a content file type for content file 104-c and generate a tile object 126-e with information from content file 104-c in accordance with the content file type. .

In various embodiments, authoring component 110 has a tile object with tile object surface 346 having selection information retrieved from content file 104-c as embedded or presented within one or more tile object containers 342-u. (126-e) can be generated automatically. In one embodiment, the selection information is content from content file 104-c or content retrieved from content file 104-c, such as content portion 106-1 for content file 104-1, for example. It can include a part.

Similar to the presentation tile 124-a of the presentation surface 122, the tile object container 342-u is a tile object surface designated to present a discrete set of information, such as a content portion or a content portion clip 344-v. 346 may include a defined area. The defined area may have any size, dimension or shape as required for certain embodiments. The given tile object surface 346 is a set of rules (e.g., size, shape, dimensions) to ensure that all tile object containers 342-u fit a given size for the tile object surface 346. , Geometric shapes). The specification for object container 342-u is defined between another tile object container 342-u, tile object surface 346, content part or content part clip 344-v, and tile object container 342-u. Association, one or more presentation tiles 124-a, a presentation surface 122, a set of content files 104-c, an association between content files 104-c and presentation tiles 124-a, a content file ( It may be dynamically changed based on the tile object 126-e associated with 104-c), properties for display, properties for devices, user preferences, and other factors. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In one embodiment, the content creator may customize the tile object surface 346 and the tile object container 342-u. Various controls specifically defined for modifying the properties of the tile object surface 346 and the set of tile object containers 342-u on the tile object surface 346, for example, for the montage application 140. GUI input tool 302]. Examples of such controls may include, but are not limited to, drawing controls, dimension controls, size controls, width controls, height controls, pixel controls, refresh controls, and the like. Alternatively, the content creator may select from any number of tile templates that provide different tile object surfaces and object containers 342-u.

In one embodiment, for example, authoring component 110 may select information from the appropriate content file 104-c for each tile object container 342-u. Authoring component 110 may select this information based, for example, on the content file type for content file 104-c. As described in detail with reference to FIG. 2, authoring component 110 includes multiple types of modules 202-g corresponding to each content file type, and each type module 202-g is a type. It is arranged to retrieve the set of information from the content file 104-c in a particular manner based on the type definition 204-h for the module 202-g. Authoring component 110 identifies the content file type for content file 104-c and uses information from content file 104-c using type module 202-g and associated type definition 204-h. Select, and create a tile object 126-e having the selected information.

In one embodiment, authoring component 110 includes one or more tile object containers 342-u to form a filled container 348 according to a set of container definitions for the custom algorithm and corresponding tile object container 342-u. It is possible to execute a custom algorithm designed to fit information from the content file 104-c in the file. In one embodiment, the container definition may include a portion of the type definition 204-h of the type module 202-g. Additionally or alternatively, the container definition may include additional information about what is provided by the type definition 204-h. For example, the type module 202-g may receive as input information for the tile object container 342-u of the presentation tile 124-a selected for the content file 104-c. The type module 202-g may receive information such as location, size, shape, dimensions, geometric shape, boundary, adjacent tile object container 342-u, neighbor tile object container 342-u, and the like. For example, the type module 202-1 may configure the type definition 204 to construct a tile object 126-1 that is too large for the current dimension of the tile object container 342-1 of the presentation tile 124-1. -1), the type module 202-1 uses information about neighboring or neighboring tile object containers 342-2, 342-3 to determine the current dimensions for the tile object container 342-1. Determine whether it can be increased to accommodate large amounts of information from content portion 106-1, and the current dimensions for tile object containers 342-2, 342-3 can be increased accordingly. Authoring component 110 may implement various custom algorithms to accommodate such cases.

There may be cases where it is desirable for a user to select a tile template for a given tile object 126-e from a set of automatically generated tile templates available for a particular content file 104-c. For example, if the user does not like any tile template or automatically generated tile object 126-e, the user may choose to use the tile template or specific tile object ( 126-e), a set of user interface controls can be used to edit. Examples of user interface controls may include, for example, a GUI input tool 302.

As described with reference to FIG. 3B, once the content creator selects the content file 104-1 and associates it with the presentation tile 124-1, the authoring component 110 is in the content file 104-1. Creation, construction, or creation of the tile object 126-1 may be initiated to represent the included content.

For example, authoring component 104-1 may identify a content file type for content file 104-1. In this example, authoring component 110 identifies content file 104-1, more specifically the content file type, for the word processing file as an application file definition. The authoring component 110 may use a type module 202-1 and a type definition 204-1 specifically designed for generating tile objects from word processing files. The type module 202-1 can use the type definition 204-1 to retrieve the appropriate content portion 106-1 and / or content portion clip 344-v from the content file 104-1. The content portion 106-1 includes information of a content and feature class, a content object class, a content page class, or a combination of classes. The type module 202-1 can use the content portion 106-1 and / or the content portion clip 344-v to create one or more filled containers 348 for the tile object 126-1. . The type module 202-1 can then present a container 348-w filled within the boundary for the tile object 126-1.

Referring again to FIG. 3C, the user interface view 340 may illustrate the case where the content file 104-1 is associated with the presentation tile 124-1 as described with reference to FIGS. 3A and 3B. have. More specifically, user interface view 340 illustrates the configuration of tile object 126-1 once certain content file 104-1 is associated with corresponding presentation tile 124-1. As shown in FIG. 3C, the user interface view 340 from the content portion 106-1 of the content file 104-1 during creation of the tile object 126-1 for the content file 104-1. Illustrates a tile object 126-1 with a filled container 348-1 that includes a content portion clip 344-1. For example, authoring component 110 may extract one or more content portion clips 344-v from content portion 106-1 retrieved from content file 104-1. Type definition 204-1 may include a set of rules belonging to the type of information for retrieving from content file 104-1. For example, type definition 204-1 may include content and property classes (eg, paragraphs or properties) from content file 104-1, and content object classes (eg, content) for content file 104-1. For example, it may include three classes of information and associated rules, including images, embedded objects) and content page classes in the content file 104-1, or some combination thereof. Authoring component 110 may use the rules provided by type definition 204-1 to retrieve selected content portion clip 344-v from content portion 106-1 of content file 104-1. . User interface view 340 illustrates the case where content portion clip 344-1 is retrieved from content portion 106-1 and disposed within corresponding tile object container 342-1 to form filled container 348-1. To illustrate. Authoring component 110 generates the content portion (3) to generate additional filled containers 348-2 through 348-w according to the rules provided by type definition 204-1 until tile object 126-1 is fully filled. 106-1) may continue to retrieve the selected content portion clip 344-v.

4 shows an example of an authoring component 110 that generates a tile object 126-1. As shown, content file 104-1 may include various types of information of content and property classes, including title 402, first paragraph 404, second paragraph 406, and various metadata 408. It may include. The content file 104-1 may further include various types of information of the content object class including the image 410, the bar chart 412, and the equation 414. The type definition 204-1 is a first rule for using a specific tile template labeled "Tile Template 1", a second rule for searching the title 402, and a search for an author from metadata 408. A third rule, a fourth rule for retrieving the first N paragraphs 404, 406 (eg, N = 2), and a fifth rule for retrieving the first graph, which is the bar chart 412 in this example May contain five rules. The type module 201-1 uses the type definition 204-1 to retrieve the content portion 106-1 from the content file 104-1 according to the rules 1-5 of the type definition 204-1. And generate a tile object 126-1, which is provided as a user interface view with specific information of the content portion 106-1 formatted according to “tile template 1”.

5 illustrates one embodiment of a messaging system 500 suitable for publishing or distributing montage 120 generated by montage application 140. The content creator can generate the montage 120 using the montage application 140 using the various user interface views provided by the user interface component 540. The user interface 538 can include a native user interface component for the montage application 140, or a user interface component for the OS (eg, Microsoft Windows) running the montage application 140. Once the montage 120 is created, the content creator can distribute the montage 120 to various content consumers using a publishing model, a messaging model, or a combination of publishing and messaging models.

In one embodiment, montage application 140 may publish montage and related content files 104-c from local data store 210 to remote data store 212 using publish component 532. have. The remote data store 212 can be implemented as part of a network storage server 550 that can be accessed by a network service such as, for example, a social networking service (SNS). Content consumers can access network services to view network service versions.

In one embodiment, montage application 140 uses native message component 534 to message 516 montage 120 and related content files 104-c via a messaging architecture such as message server 540. And as message attachments. Content consumers can access and view message versions. Alternatively, montage application 140 may use an external (non-unique) message application 542-k.

In one embodiment, montage application 140 uses a combination of both publishing model and messaging model by publishing montage 120 and related content files 104-c as a network service, and montage 120 and related content Receive links 518-n for network versions of files 104-c and send a message 516 with links 518-n. Content consumers can access message 516, select link 518-n, and view network version of montage 120. In addition, content consumers can select the tile object 126-e of the montage 120 to view the network version of the content file 104-c associated with the selected tile object 126-e.

Montage application 140 may use security component 536 to manage permissions and access to montage 120 and related content files 104-c by content consumers. The security component 536 may manage accounts, authentication information, authorization information, security information (e.g., encryption / decryption algorithms, security keys, certificates, etc.), authorization levels, In one embodiment, security component 536 is responsible for content files 104-c from local data storage 210 to remote data storage 212 for network storage server 550 that may be accessed by a network service. Control instructions indicating a command from the content creator for authorizing communication of the "

5, the messaging system 500 includes a number of computing devices 510-j, a message server 540, and a network storage server 550, all of which communicate via the network 530 . Computing devices 510-j may each implement a montage application 140 and / or one or more message applications 542-k. Although messaging system 500 as shown in FIG. 5 has a limited number of elements within a given topology, messaging system 500 may include more or fewer elements in alternative topologies as needed for a given implementation. It can be seen that.

Network 530 may include a communication framework designed to communicate information between the various devices of messaging system 500. Network 530 may be configured to include packet switched networks (e.g., a public network such as the Internet, a private network such as a corporate intranet, etc.), circuit switched networks (e.g., a public switched telephone network), or (suitable gateways and translators). Any known communication techniques such as those suitable for use with a combination of packet switched networks and circuit switched networks).

The message server 540 may include or use one or more server computing devices and / or server programs that operate to perform various methods in accordance with the described embodiments. For example, when installed and / or deployed, a server program may support one or more server roles of a server computing device to provide certain services and features. Exemplary message server 540 may include standalone and enterprise class server computers running a server OS such as, for example, a MICROSOFT OS, a UNIX® OS, a LINUX® OS, or other suitable server-based OS. Exemplary server programs include, for example, communication server programs such as MICROSOFT OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS SERVER (OCS) for managing incoming and outgoing messages, email, voice mail, VoIP, instant messaging (IM), group IM, enhanced presence. messaging server programs such as MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER for providing Unified Messaging (UM) for presence and audio-video conferencing, and / or other types of programs, applications and services in accordance with the described embodiments. can do.

The network storage server 550 may also include or use one or more server computing devices and / or server programs that operate to perform various methods in accordance with the described embodiments. For example, when installed and / or deployed, a server program may support one or more server roles of a server computing device to provide certain services and features. Exemplary network storage server 550 may include standalone and enterprise class server computers running a server OS such as, for example, a MICROSOFT OS, a UNIX OS, a LINUX OS, or other suitable server based OS. Exemplary server programs include network storage server programs, such as MICROSOFT LIVE, which provides online network storage of documents and files, including multimedia or media files such as, for example, images, photos, photo albums, videos, video albums, and the like. can do. Exemplary server programs include, for example, social networking application programs, search applications, document management programs, weblogs (blogs), word processing programs, spreadsheet programs, database programs, drawing programs, document sharing programs, message applications, web services, It may further comprise network application programs such as web applications, web servers, and / or other types of programs, applications or services in accordance with the described embodiments.

Computing devices 510-j may each include a processor 502 and a memory 504 communicatively coupled to the processor 502. [ The processor 502 and the memory 504 may be communicatively coupled to the communication interface 509, respectively. Example architecture and examples for computing devices 510-j may be described with reference to FIG. 10.

Communication interface 509 may include or implement various communication technologies that enable computing devices 510-j to communicate with each other and with the remaining devices of messaging system 500 via network 530. [ For example, various devices of messaging system 500 may each include one or more communication interfaces, network interfaces, network interface cards (NICs), radios, wireless transmitters / receivers (transceivers), wired and / or wireless communication media, physical connections, and the like. Likewise, it may include a communication interface 509 that implements various types of standard communication elements designed to work with the network 530. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired communication media and wireless communication media. Examples of wired communication media may include wires, cables, metal leads, printed circuit boards (PCBs), backplanes, switch fabrics, semiconductor materials, twisted pair wires, coaxial cables, optical fibers, radio signals, and the like. Examples of wireless communication media may include acoustic, radio frequency (RF) spectra, infrared and other wireless media.

In various embodiments, communication interface 509 may include a number of different types of transmitters 512-m. Each of the transmitters 512-m may implement or use the same or different sets of communication parameters to communicate information between the various devices of the messaging system 500. In one embodiment, for example, each of the transmitters 512-m may implement or use a different set of communication parameters to communicate information between the computing devices 510-j and the message server 540. . Some examples of communication parameters are communication protocol, communication standard, radio frequency (RF) band, radio, transmitter / receiver (transceiver), radio processor, baseband processor, network scanning threshold parameter, radio frequency channel parameter, access point parameter, rate Selection parameters, frame size parameters, aggregation size parameters, packet retry limit parameters, protocol parameters, radio parameters, modulation and coding scheme (MCS), acknowledgment parameters, media access control (MAC) layer parameters, physical (PHY) layer parameters , And any other communication parameters that affect operations on the communication interface 509 implemented by the computing devices 510-j. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In various embodiments, communication interface 509 of computing device 510-1 may implement different communication parameters that provide various bandwidths and communication rates. For example, transmitter 512-1 may include a high speed interface that implements appropriate communication parameters for high speed communication of information to network 530, while transmitter 512-2 includes network 530. It may include a low speed interface that implements appropriate communication parameters for low speed communication of information to the furnace.

In connection with wired communication, for example, the transmitter 512-1 may include a network interface designed to communicate information through a packet switched network such as the Internet. The transmitter 512-1 may be arranged to provide a data communication function according to different types of wired network systems or protocols. Examples of suitable wired network systems that provide data communication services include the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) suite of communication standards, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Datagram Congestion Control Protocol. (DCCP), Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Collection of Protocols, Reliable Transmitter Protocol (RTP), IETF Real Time It may include a transmission protocol (RTP). Transmitter 512-2 includes Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Extended SMTP (ESMTP), Post Office Protocol (POP), POP3, Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) protocol, Unix vs. It may be arranged to provide data communication in accordance with different message protocols such as the Unix Copy (UUCP) protocol, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) collection of protocols such as the ITU-T X.400 protocols, and the like. It can be appreciated that other wired communication techniques can be implemented, and embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In connection with wireless communication, for example, the transmitter 512-1 may include a radio designed to communicate information over a wireless local area network (WLAN). The transmitter 512-1 may be arranged to provide a data communication function according to different types of wireless network systems or protocols. Examples of suitable wireless network systems that provide data communication services include the IEEE 802.11a / b / g / n series of standard protocols and variations (also referred to as "WiFi"), and the IEEE 802.16 series of standard protocols and variations ("WiMax"). And the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.xx series of standards, such as the IEEE 802.20 series of standard protocols and variations. Transmitter 512-2 may include a radio designed to communicate information over data networking links provided by one or more cellular wireless telephone systems. Examples of cellular radiotelephone systems that provide data communication services include GSM / General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) system, CDMA / 1xRTT system, Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) system, and Evolution (EV-DO). Data Only or Evolution Data Optimized (EV) systems, Evolution For Data and Voice (EV-DV) systems, high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) systems, high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) systems, and the like. It can be appreciated that other wireless technologies can be implemented, and embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In various embodiments, communication interface 509 of computing device 510-1 may implement the same set of communication parameters that provide the same or substantially similar bandwidths or communication speeds. However, the transmitters 512-1 and 512-2 may be used at different points in time by the montage application 140 and / or the message application 542-1. In one embodiment, for example, montage application 140 may communicate montage 120 and one or more content files 104-c for montage 120 during a first time interval, and montage application 140 And / or message application 542-1 may communicate message 516 with information regarding montage 120 and / or supporting content files 104-c during a second time interval. In one embodiment, for example, the first and second time intervals may be completely discontinuous, and the start time and end time of the first time interval are before the start time of the second time interval. In one embodiment, for example, the first and second time intervals may partially overlap, and the start time of the first time interval is before the start time of the second time interval, but the end time of the first time interval is zero. After the start time of the 2 hour interval. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

Computing devices 510-j may implement montage application 140 with message component 534 and / or one or more message applications 542-k configured to communicate various types of messages in various formats. One embodiment is described with reference to message applications 542-k for the messaging model, but such descriptions may apply to other embodiments using the message component 534 of the montage application 140.

Each of the message applications 542-k may represent a particular kind of transmission that enables processing of messages of specific types and formats for a particular application. Message applications 542-k include facsimile applications, video message applications, instant messaging (IM) applications, chat applications, email (email) applications, short message (SMS) applications, multimedia message service (MMS) applications, social networks. System (SNS) applications and the like, but is not limited thereto. Embodiments are not limited in this regard, and it should be understood that the message applications 542-k may include any other type of messaging or communication application suitable for the described embodiments. It should also be appreciated that each of the computing devices 510-j may implement other types of applications in addition to the message applications 542-k suitable for the described embodiments.

As shown in FIG. 5, for example, computing devices 510-1 and 510-2 implement respective message applications 542-1 and 542-2. The message applications 542-1 and 542-2 may generally be operable to create, send, receive, update, modify, and otherwise manage messages for the computing devices 510-1 and 510-2. Implementation details shown for the computing device 510-1 and its message application 542-1 as described herein also apply to the computing device 510-2 and its respective message application 542-2. It can be seen that.

In one embodiment, message applications 542-1 and 542-2 are network based message applications implemented on network devices and accessed by computing devices 510-1 and 510-2 via a web browser. Rather, a standalone client base that is stored and executed by local resources provided by computing devices 510-1, 510-2, such as processor 502 and memory 504 of computing device 510-1. Implemented as applications. In one embodiment, message applications 542-1 and 542-2 are suitable for distributed processing and are partially executed on local resources for computing devices 510-1 and 510-2, RTI ID = 0.0 > partially < / RTI > Additionally or alternatively, message applications 542-1 and 542-2 are implemented on network devices and accessed by computing devices 510-1 and 510-2 via a web browser. Can include them. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In one embodiment, for example, the message application 542-1 may be arranged to communicate the message 516 via the transmitter 512-2. The message 516 may include one or more embedded links 518-n and / or montages for the montage 120 and / or one or more content files 104-c when communicated via the transmitter 512-2. 120). One or more embedded links 518-n are, for example, montage 120 and / or one or more content files 104 as stored on network storage server 550 and accessible by the message sender or message recipient. may include a reference to -c).

Each of the links 518-n may include a reference or pointer to the stored montage 120 and the content files 104-c, which may be tracked directly by the user, or automatically tracked by a program. The references refer to data referenced elsewhere in memory of the device (eg file server) (eg, stored montage 120 and content file 104-c such as an object, file, data item, etc.). Types, used to access the reference object. In general, a reference is a value that allows a program to directly access a reference object. The reference object may be stored on the same device as the reference or on a different device than the reference. Most programming languages support some form of reference. Examples for links 518-n may include, but are not limited to, hypertext and hyperlinks such as those used by the World Wide Web. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. A hyperlink typically includes an anchor that is a location within a message where the hyperlink can be tracked. The target of the hyperlink is the stored montage 120 and / or the content file 104-c to which the hyperlink is directed. When a user's anchor appears in some way, for example, by activating the link by touching the link (e.g., using a touch screen display) or by clicking on the link with a pointing device (e.g., a mouse). You can track the link. When link 518-n is activated, its target is displayed via a web browser or application program.

As noted above, the montage application 140 publishes the montage 120 and related content files 104-c to the remote data store 212 of the network storage server 550 to produce both a publishing model and a messaging model. Uses blending, receives links 518-n to network versions of montage 120 and related content files 104-c, and sends message 516 with links 518-n. Can transmit Content consumers can access message 516, select link 518-n, and view network version of montage 120. In addition, content consumers can select the tile object 126-e of the montage 120 to view the network version of the content file 104-c associated with the selected tile object 126-e. Such a mixing model can be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 6.

6 illustrates one embodiment of a message flow for a messaging system 500. As shown in FIG. 6, publishing component 532 may publish montage 120 and related content files 104-c to network service 652. The publishing component 532 may send the montage 120 and related content files 104-c to the network storage server 550 via the transmitter 512-1 as indicated by arrow 602. Transmitter 512-1, which is a fast transmitter, may have sufficient bandwidth to transmit the larger file size typically associated with content files 104-c, for example, relative to the message size for message 516. .

The network storage server 550 may receive the montage 120 and related content files 104-c and store them in the remote data store 212. Network storage server 550 then links links 518-n to montage 120 and content files 104-c as stored in remote data store 212 as indicated by arrow 604. Can transmit

Publishing component 532 may receive links 518-n and send the links to authoring component 110. Authoring component 110 may associate a link 518-n with each tile object 126-e and use the associations to update montage 120, thus allowing the content consumer to tile object 126-e. ) And access the relevant content file 104-c from the remote data store 212 for a closer look at the content file 104-c.

In one embodiment, consistent with the publishing model, authoring component 110 may send updated montage 120 to publishing component 532. The publishing component 532 can then publish the updated montage 120 and links 518-n on the network service 652 as indicated by arrow 606. For example, network service 652 may include a social networking service (SNS), and content consumers with a defined relationship with a content producer (eg, a friend) may publish published links 518-n. The montage 120 and related content files 104-c can be accessed through. In another example, network service 652 may provide an account to a content creator, which may be available for viewing by content consumers in accordance with permissions set for network service 652 and / or security component 536. Can be done. The content consumer accesses the network service 652 via the computing device 510-2, as indicated by arrow 610, selects a link 518-n to the file for montage 120 via a web browser, and The montage 120 may be requested from the remote data storage 212. The network service 652 may receive the request and send the montage 120 to the computing device 510-2, as indicated by arrow 612. Computing device 510-2 may provide montage 120 as a user interface view of presentation surface 122 having tile objects 126-e in presentation tiles 124-a. Computing device 510-2 may generate the user interface view as a web page to a web browser or as a user interface view of an application program, such as a montage viewer designed to observe montage application 140 or montage 120. .

In one embodiment, consistent with the messaging model, authoring component 110 may send updated montage 120 and links 518-n to message component 534 (or message application 542-1). have. The message component 534 can receive the links 518-n and the message content 620 as inputs. Message content 620 may include a message from a content creator. Message component 534 can generate message 516 with message content 620 and links 518-n. Additionally or alternatively, message 516 optionally includes montage 120 and / or certain content files 104-c depending on file size limitations and available bandwidth for message transmitter 512-2. can do. Montage 120 may include a lower fidelity version of montage 120 that is more suitable for the available bandwidth of transmitter 512-2, such as a maximum fidelity version of montage 120, or a thumbnail version of montage 120. have.

The message component 534 sends the message 516 via the message server 540 via the transmitter 512-2, as indicated by arrow 608, to the message application 542-2 of the computing device 510-2. Can be sent. The content consumer may open message 516, select link 518-n to montage 120, and request montage 120 from remote data store 212 as indicated by arrow 610. The network service 652 may receive the request and send the montage 120 to the computing device 510-2, as indicated by arrow 612. Computing device 510-2 may provide montage 120 as a user interface view of presentation surface 122 having tile objects 126-e in presentation tiles 124-a. Computing device 510-2 may generate the user interface view as a web page to a web browser or as a user interface view of an application program, such as a montage viewer designed to observe montage application 140 or montage 120. .

7A illustrates one embodiment of a user interface view 700 of an example message 516. As described with reference to FIG. 6, the content creator may use the montage application 140 and / or messaging application 542-1 to send a message 516 with a reference to the montage 120 or montage 120. Can be generated and transmitted. The content consumer can receive the message 516 via the computing device 510-2 and the messaging application 542-2. User interface view 700 provides an example for message 516 implemented as an email message.

Message 516 specifically includes a Reply button, a Reply to All button, a Forward button, a Delete button, a Move to Folder button, and a Create Rule button. And a ribbon bar 702 having various command elements for an email, such as < RTI ID = 0.0 > The message 516 may further include an address bar 704 with addressing information and a message body 706. The message body 706 may include a surface having a montage file thumbnail 720 and a link 518-1 to the montage 120 as stored in the remote data store 212. The montage file thumbnail 720 may include a lower fidelity version of the montage 120.

The content consumer may select the montage thumbnail 720 using an input device such as, for example, the pointing device 710. The content consumer may also select a link 518-1 entitled "Student Class Trip" using an input device such as, for example, a gesture 712 on the touch screen display. In both examples, the selection launches a web browser or application program for viewing montage 120.

7B illustrates one embodiment of a user interface view 740 of montage 120 launched from message 516. According to a given implementation for computing device 510-2, computing device 510-2 renders user interface view 740 as a web page to a web browser, or to view montage application 140 or montage 120. It can be created as a user interface view of an application program, such as a uniquely designed montage viewer 730. For example, presentation component 130 and / or montage viewer 730 of montage application 140 implemented for computing device 510-2 may receive control instructions to open montage 120 and store remote data. Operations for retrieving montage 120 from unit 212 can be initiated. The presentation component 130 and / or the montage viewer 730 may include a user interface view of the montage 120 that includes the presentation surface 122 with tile objects 126-e within the appropriate presentation tiles 124- (740).

When rendered as a webpage, presentation component 730 may use code that is uniquely designed for the webpage, such as hypertext markup language (HTML) or similar code. However, the HTML code may be limited by any type of web browser implemented by the client device 510-2. When rendered as a user interface view for montage viewer 730, presentation component 130 and / or montage viewer 730 may use code optimized for montage viewer 730. For example, the montage 120 may be generated using HTML code for a web page, and extensible markup language (XML) code may be embedded in the HTML code. The XML code may be generated using a data schema that is uniquely designed for the montage application 140 or montage viewer 730. Thus, montage application 140 or montage viewer 730 may render a higher fidelity version of montage 120 compared to the lower fidelity version of montage 120 used for the webpage.

7C illustrates one embodiment of an example user interface view 750 of montage 120 as provided within montage viewer 730. As described with reference to FIG. 7B, the montage viewer 730 user of the montage 120 includes a presentation surface 122 having tile objects 126-e in the appropriate presentation tiles 124-a. An interface view 740 may be provided. It is assumed that presentation surface 122 includes a tile object 126-1 for content file 104-1 as described with reference to FIG. 4.

The content consumer may select the tile object 126-1 using an input device such as, for example, the pointing device 710. The presentation component 130 and / or montage viewer 730 of the montage application 140, implemented for the computing device 510-2, receives control instructions for selecting the tile object 126-1 and stores remote data. The content file 104-1 for the tile object 126-1 is retrieved from the block 212.

7D illustrates one embodiment of a user interface view 760 of content file 104-1 launched from montage 120. Presentation component 130 and / or montage viewer 730 may provide a user interface view 760 having a maximum fidelity version of content file 104-1 retrieved from remote data store 212. Alternatively, content file 104-1 may be rendered using a native application program similar to that used to create content file 104-1, or a viewer designed specifically for such an application program. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

In various embodiments, the presentation component 130 may dynamically generate a montage 120 for viewing on displays having different characteristics, such as different sizes, resolutions, refresh rates, backlighting, power consumption, and the like. In such examples, presentation component 130 may be arranged to detect display characteristics of the display and modify montage 120 for presentation on the display. For example, the presentation component 130 may have a larger number of presentation tiles 124-a and tile objects 126-e when presented on a large wall display with touch controls as found in many conference rooms. A much larger version of the montage 120 can be created. On the other hand, presentation component 130 may generate a smaller version of montage 120 with fewer presentation tiles 124-a and tile objects 126-e when provided on a smartphone. Similarly, presentation component 130 can generate montages 120 with different fidelity levels based on the screen resolution or pixel size of a given display. In another example, the presentation component 130 creates a version of the montage 120 when in portrait mode, and when in panorama mode, for example when the user rotates the smartphone or tablet. You can create another version. Embodiments are not limited in this regard.

Operations for the above-described embodiments may be further described with reference to one or more logic flows. It will be appreciated that the representative logic flows need not be executed in the order provided or in any particular order unless otherwise indicated. Moreover, the various activities described in connection with logic flows can be executed in a serial or parallel manner. Logic flows may be implemented using one or more hardware and / or software elements of the described embodiments, or alternative elements as needed for a given set of design and performance constraints. For example, logic flows may be implemented as logic (eg, computer program instructions) for execution by a logic device (eg, a general purpose or special purpose computer).

8A illustrates one embodiment of a logic flow 800. Logic flow 800 may represent some or all of the operations executed by one or more embodiments described herein, such as authoring component 110 of montage application 140 generating montage 120.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 8A, the logic flow 800 may provide a presentation surface with multiple presentation tiles at block 802. For example, authoring component 110 may provide presentation surface 122 having multiple presentation tiles 124-a via user interface 538. Presentation surface 122 may be selected from a number of montage templates or may be custom designed by a content creator.

Logic flow 800 may receive a control indication at block 804 that associates a content file with a presentation tile. For example, authoring component 110 may receive a control indication 102-b that associates content file 104-c with presentation tile 124-a. The control instruction 102-b may be received from an input device representing a command by the content creator.

Logic flow 800 may identify a content file type for the content file at block 806. For example, authoring component 110 may identify a content file type for content file 104-c. The identification may be used to generate the file extension of the content file 104-c, metadata about the content file 104-c, analysis of information in the content file 104-c, and generate the content file 104-c. This can be done by checking information about the application program and the like.

Logic flow 800 may retrieve a portion of the content from the content file based on the content file type at block 808. For example, authoring component 110 selects type module 202-g based on the content file type, and uses the selected type module 202-g, as found for content file 104-c. The appropriate content portion 106-d may be retrieved from the content file 104-c according to the type definition 204-h associated with the content file type. In one embodiment, the content file 104-c may be stored in the local data store 210, and the content portion 106-d may be retrieved via the data bus using the file navigation tool 304. have. In one embodiment, the content file 104-c may be stored in the remote data store 212, and the content portion 106-d may be retrieved over the network using the file navigation tool 304. .

The logic flow 800 may generate a tile object based on the content portion at block 810. For example, authoring component 110 uses selected type module 202-g to generate tile object 126-e from the retrieved content portion 106-d according to the relevant type definition 204-h. can do. The tile object 126-e may be provided in the presentation tile 124-a. The tile object 126-e provides sufficient information about the base content file 104-c to enable the content consumer to determine if he wants to see the maximum fidelity view of the content file 104-c. It is designed to.

Logic flow 800 may store the presentation surface and tile objects as montages at block 812. For example, authoring component 110 may store presentation surface 122 and any tile objects 126-e as montage 120. The montage 120 may then be distributed, published, and consumed by various content consumers using, for example, messaging system 500.

8B illustrates one embodiment of a logic flow 820. Logic flow 820 is a portion executed by one or more embodiments described herein, such as authoring component 110 of montage application 140 for generating tile object 126-e for montage 120. Or it can represent the whole action.

In the illustrated embodiment shown in FIG. 8B, logic flow 820 may receive a control indication at block 822 to associate the content file with the presentation tile of the presentation surface of the digital montage. For example, authoring component 110 may control instructions 102-b to associate content file 104-1 with presentation tile 124-1 of presentation surface 122 of a digital montage, such as montage 120. ) Can be received.

Logic flow 820 may identify the content file type for the content file at block 824. For example, authoring component 110 may identify a content file type for content file 104-1. Authoring component 110 is, among other things, an application file type that includes a word processing file, a spreadsheet file, a presentation file, a personal information manager file, a database file, a publisher file, a drawing file, a note file, or a message file. 104-1) may identify the content file definition.

Logic flow 820 may retrieve the content portion of the content file based on the content file type at block 826. For example, authoring component 110 may retrieve content portion 106-1 of content file 104-1 based on the identified content file type.

Logic flow 820 may generate a tile object based on the content portion at block 828. For example, authoring component 110 may automatically generate tile object 126-1 based on content portion 106-1. More specifically, authoring component 110 may generate tile object 126-1 as tile object surface 346 with selected content portion clip 344-v contained within corresponding tile object container 342-u. Can be.

Authoring component 110 may automatically select a particular content portion clip 344-v from content portion 106-1 of content file 104-1 based on the content file type. More specifically, authoring component 110 may remove content portion clip 344-v from content portion 106-1 of content file 104-1 based on the type definition 204-h associated with the content file type. Optionally, the type definition includes information of the content and property classes, the content object class, or the content page class. Once selected, authoring component 110 may associate the selected content portion clip with the corresponding tile object container 342-u of tile object surface 346.

Additionally or alternatively, authoring component 110 may select a particular content portion clip 344-v from content portion 106-1 of content file 104-1 in response to a user control indication. For example, authoring component 110 receives control instruction 102-b from input device to select content portion clip 344-v from content portion 106-1 of content file 104-1. can do. In addition, the authoring component 110 may also input the content device clip 344-v selected from the content portion 106-1 of the content file 104-1 with the corresponding tile object container 342-u. Control instructions 102-b may be received from.

Once the content portion clip 344-v is associated with the tile object container 342-u, the authoring component 110 defines a container for the corresponding tile object container 342-u and / or tile object surface 346. A custom algorithm can be used to fit the content portion clip 344-v in the corresponding tile object container 342-u to form a filled container 348-u according to the set of.

Once the set of filled containers 348-w is created, authoring component 110 is filled within tile object surface 346 according to the set of surface definitions for tile object surface 346 and / or presentation surface 122. The same or similar custom algorithm may be used to fit the container 348-w.

9 illustrates one embodiment of a logic flow 900. Logic flow 900 may represent some or all of the operations executed by one or more embodiments described herein, such as presentation component 130 of montage application 140.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, logic flow 900 may generate a montage at block 902 that includes a presentation surface having a plurality of presentation tiles each having a tile object for the corresponding content file. For example, the presentation component 130 includes a presentation surface 122 having a plurality of presentation tiles 124-a each having a tile object 126-e for the corresponding content file 104-c. Montage 120 may be generated.

Logic flow 900 may send the montage and content files to a network service at block 904. For example, publishing component 532 of montage application 140 may display montage 120 and related content files 104-c for storage by remote data store 212 accessible via network service 652. ) May be sent to the network storage server 550.

Logic flow 900 may receive a montage and references to each content file at block 906. For example, publishing component 532 may receive montage 120 and links 518-n for each content file 104-c. Links 518-n may include references or pointers to montage 120 and network versions of each content file 104-c as stored on remote data store 212. .

Logic flow 900 may associate a reference to the content file with a corresponding tile object at block 908. For example, publishing component 532 may send the retrieved links 518-n to authoring component 110. Authoring component 110 may associate a link 518-n to content file 104-c with a corresponding tile object 126-e. When the content consumer selects the tile object 126-e, the presentation component 130 may retrieve the content file 104-c associated with the tile object 126-e via the associated link 518-n. .

10 illustrates one embodiment of an exemplary computing architecture 1000 suitable for implementing various embodiments as described above. Computing architecture 1000 includes a variety of common computers, such as one or more processors, co-processors, memory units, chipsets, controllers, peripherals, interfaces, oscillators, timing devices, video cards, audio cards, multimedia input / output (I / O) components, and the like. Contains elements. However, embodiments are not limited to implementation by the computing architecture 1000.

As shown in FIG. 10, computing architecture 1000 includes processing unit 1004, system memory 1006, and system bus 1008. Processing unit 1004 may be any of a variety of commercial processors. Dual microprocessors and other multiprocessor architectures may also be used as the processing unit 1004. System bus 1008 provides an interface to processing unit 1004 of system components, including but not limited to system memory 1006. System bus 1008 may be any of a variety of types of bus structures that may be more interconnected to memory buses, peripheral buses, and local buses (with or without memory controllers) using any of a variety of commercial bus architectures.

System memory 1006 includes read only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), double data rate DRAM (DDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), static RAM (SRAM), programmable ROM ( PROM), erasable and programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable and programmable ROM (EEPROM), flash memory, polymer memory such as ferroelectric polymer memory, ovonic memory, phase change or ferroelectric memory, silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide Various types of memory units, such as silicon (SONOS) memory, magnetic or optical cards, or any other type of media suitable for storing information. 10, the system memory 1006 may include a non-volatile memory 1010 and / or a volatile memory 1012. The non- A basic input / output system (BIOS) may be stored in the nonvolatile memory 1010.

Computer 1002 includes an internal hard disk drive (HDD) 1014, a magnetic floppy disk drive (FDD) 1016 for reading from or writing to a removable magnetic disk 1018, and a removable optical disk 1022 (eg, Various types of computer readable storage media including an optical disk drive 1020 for reading from or writing to a CD-ROM or DVD). The HDD 1014, the FDD 1016, and the optical disk drive 1020 may be connected to the system bus 1008 by the HDD interface 1024, the FDD interface 1026, and the optical drive interface 1028, respectively. HDD interface 1024 for external drive implementations may include at least one or both of Universal Serial Bus (USB) and IEEE 1394 interface technologies.

Drives and associated computer readable media provide volatile and / or nonvolatile storage of data, data structures, computer executable instructions, and the like. For example, a number of program modules including an operating system 1030, one or more application programs 1032, other program modules 1034, and program data 1036 may drive and memory units 1010, 1012. Can be stored in. One or more application programs 1032, other program modules 1034 and program data 1036 may be published, for example, montage application 140, authoring component 110, presentation component 130, security component 136, publishing. Component 532, message component 534, user interface 538, and messaging application 542.

A user may enter commands and information into the computer 1002 via one or more wired / wireless input devices, such as a keyboard 1038 and a mouse 1040. Other input devices may include a microphone, an infrared (IR) remote control, a joystick, a game pad, a stylus pen, a touch screen, and the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 1004 via an input device interface 1042 that is coupled to the system bus 1008, but such as parallel ports, IEEE 1394 serial ports, game ports, USB ports, IR interfaces, and the like. May be connected by other interfaces.

It is connected to the system bus 1008 via an interface such as a monitor 1044 or other type of display device video adapter 1046. In addition to the monitor 1044, the computer typically includes other peripheral output devices such as speakers, printers, and the like.

Computer 1002 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections via wired and / or wireless communication to one or more remote computers, such as remote computer 1048. Remote computer 1048 may be a workstation, server computer, router, personal computer, portable computer, microprocessor-based entertainment appliance, peer device, or other general network node, although only memory / storage device 1050 is shown for simplicity. It typically includes many or all of the elements described with respect to the computer 1002. The logical connections shown include wired / wireless connections to a local area network (LAN) 1052 and / or larger networks, such as wide area network (WAN) 1054. Such LAN and WAN networking environments are common in offices and corporations, and facilitate enterprise wide area computer networks such as intranets, all of which can connect to global communication networks, such as the Internet.

When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 1002 is connected to the LAN 1052 via a wired and / or wireless communication network interface or adapter 1056. The adapter 1056 may facilitate wired and / or wireless communication to the LAN 1052, which may also include a wireless access point arranged to communicate with the wireless function of the adapter 1056.

When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 1002 may include a modem 1058, may be connected to a communication server on the WAN 1054, or to establish communications over the WAN 1054, for example, over the Internet. Have other means for it. The modem 1058, which may be an internal or external and wired and / or wireless device, connects to the system bus 1008 via an input device interface 1042. In a networked environment, program modules depicted for the computer 1002 or portions thereof may be stored in the remote memory / storage device 1050. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communication link between the computers may be used.

Computer 1002 may be any device or location (e.g., kiosk, news stand, lounge, etc.) associated with, for example, a printer, scanner, desktop and / or portable computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), communications satellite, wireless detectable tag. And wired and wireless devices or entities that use the IEEE 802 standard family, such as wireless devices functionally arranged to wirelessly communicate with a telephone (eg, IEEE 802.11 wireless modulation techniques). This includes at least Wi-Fi (ie Wireless Fidelity), WiMax and Bluetooth ^™ wireless technologies. Thus, the communication can be a predefined structure as in a traditional network, or simply an ad hoc communication between at least two devices. Wi-Fi networks use wireless technologies called IEEE 802.11x (a, b, g, etc.) to provide secure, reliable, and fast wireless connections. A Wi-Fi network can be used to connect computers to each other, the Internet, and wired networks (using IEEE 802.3-related media and functions).

Various embodiments may be implemented using hardware elements, software elements, or a combination of both. Examples of hardware elements include devices, components, processors, microprocessors, circuits, circuit elements (eg, transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc.), integrated circuits, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), Digital signal processors (DSPs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), memory units, logic gates, registers, semiconductor devices, chips, microchips, chipsets, and the like. Examples of software elements include software components, programs, applications, computer programs, application programs, system programs, machine programs, operating system software, middleware, firmware, software modules, routines, subroutines, functions, methods, procedures, software interfaces, An application program interface (API), an instruction set, computing code, computer code, code segment, computer code segment, word, value, symbol, or any combination thereof. The determination of whether to implement an embodiment using hardware elements and / or software elements is as follows: desired calculation rate, power level, thermal tolerance, processing cycle budget, input data rate, output data rate, memory as required for a given implementation. It may vary depending on any number of factors such as resources, data bus speeds, and other design or performance constraints.

Some embodiments may include an article of manufacture. The article of manufacture may comprise a storage medium for storing logic. Examples of storage media include one or more types of computer readable storage that can store electronic data, including volatile or nonvolatile memory, removable or non-removable memory, erasable or non-erasable memory, recordable or rewritable memory, and the like. Media may be included. Examples of logic include software components, programs, applications, computer programs, application programs, system programs, machine programs, operating system software, middleware, firmware, software modules, routines, subroutines, functions, methods, procedures, software interfaces, applications It may include various software elements such as program interfaces (APIs), instruction sets, computing code, computer code, code segments, computer code segments, words, values, symbols, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, for example, an article of manufacture may store executable computer program instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the methods and / or operations in accordance with the described embodiments. Executable computer program instructions may include any suitable type of code, such as source code, compiled code, interpreted code, executable code, static code, dynamic code, and the like. Executable computer program instructions may be implemented in accordance with a predefined computer language, manner or syntax for instructing a computer to perform a predetermined function. The instructions may be implemented using any suitable high level, low level, object oriented, visual, compiled and / or interpreted programming language.

Some embodiments may be described using the terms " one embodiment "or " an embodiment" and their derivatives. These terms mean that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. The appearances of the phrase " in one embodiment "in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.

Some embodiments may be described using the expressions "coupled" and " connected "and their derivatives. These terms are not necessarily intended to be synonymous to each other. For example, some embodiments may be described using the terms "connected" and / or "coupled" to indicate that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact with each other. However, the term "coupled" may mean that two or more elements are not in direct contact with each other, but still cooperate or interact with each other.

It is emphasized that the abstract is provided to enable the reader to quickly identify the features of the technical specification. The abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in the above detailed description, it can be seen that various features are grouped together in a single embodiment to simplify the disclosure. This disclosure should not be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed embodiments require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims indicate, the substance of the invention resides in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Accordingly, the following claims are encompassed within the detailed description, and each claim is based on itself as an individual embodiment. In the appended claims, the terms " including "and " in which" refer to the use of each of the terms " comprising "and " do. Moreover, the terms "first", "second", "third", etc. are used as indications only and are not intended to impose numerical requirements on their objects.

Although the subject matter has been described in language specific to structural features and / or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. do. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims.

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In a computer implemented method,
Receiving a control directive to associate the content file with the presentation tile of the presentation surface of the digital montage;
Identifying a content file type for the content file;
Retrieving a content portion of the content file based on the content file type;
Generating a tile object based on the content portion;
Computer implemented method.
The method according to claim 1,
Creating the tile object as a tile object surface having a selected content portion clip contained within a corresponding tile object container.
Computer implemented method.
The method according to claim 1,
Selecting a content portion clip from a content portion from a content file based on at least one of the content file type and a type definition associated with the content file type, wherein the type definition includes a content and feature class, a content object class, or a content page. Contains information about the class
Computer implemented method.
The method according to claim 1,
Associating the selected content portion clip with a corresponding tile object container on the tile object surface;
Computer implemented method.
The method according to claim 1,
Selecting a content part clip from the content part of the content file;
Associating a content part clip with a corresponding tile object container from the content part of the content file
Receiving from the input device a control instruction to do at least one of the following: a computer-implemented method.
The method according to claim 1,
Fitting the content partial clip within the corresponding tile object container to form a filled container according to a fitting algorithm and a container definition set for the corresponding tile object container.
Computer implemented method.
A storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed, may cause a system to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 7.
Manufactured goods.
A logic device configured to execute a montage application including an authoring component operative to generate a tile object for digital montage,
The authoring component receives a control instruction for associating a content file with a presentation tile on the presentation surface of a digital montage, identifies a content file type for the content file, and tile information with information from the content file according to the content file type. To generate
Device.
The method of claim 8,
The authoring component is operable to select information from the content file for the tile object container based on the type definition for the type module corresponding to the content file type, and generate a tile object based on the selected information.
Device.
The method of claim 8,
The authoring component executes a custom algorithm configured to customize information from a content file within the one or more tile object containers to form a filled container according to a custom algorithm and a container definition set for the corresponding tile object container.
Device.

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