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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1996
Subutai Ahmad, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Emanuel E. Farber, New York, NY (US);
Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention enables a body of information to be easily manipulated (e.g., summarized, rearranged, edited, selectively accessed or searched) to facilitate use of the information by a user. The body of information is represented by at least two sets of temporally related data. Manipulation of a second one of the sets of data in a predetermined manner is accomplished indirectly through direct manipulation of a first one of the sets of data in the predetermined manner. Where the body of information is represented by more than two sets of temporally related data, the additional sets of data can also be manipulated in a similar fashion. In a particular embodiment of the invention, digital text data representing a body of information (which is also represented by video and/or audio data) is manipulated, the digital text data is aligned with either the digital video data or digital audio data of the body of information, and the digital video data or digital audio data is manipulated according to the manipulation of the digital text data and the alignment of the digital text data with the digital video data or digital audio data. The other of the video or audio data (if present) can be manipulated by aligning that data with either the text data or the previously manipulated video or audio data, then manipulating the other of the video or audio data according to the previous manipulation of the data with which the other of the video or audio data has been aligned.