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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2001
Alan R. Peterson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James C. Spohrer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alan R. Peterson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James C. Spohrer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An authoring or other software tool is provided which allows users of the tool to review the creation and evolution of all or part of a content such as a multimedia title created using a tool incorporating the invention. According to the invention, an authoring tool comprises a recording mechanism for recording actions performed during the development or modification of software content in a manner that preserves, directly or indirectly, the relative chronological order of the actions and a playback mechanism for performing or otherwise simulating recorded actions. Preferably, the playback of an action includes annotation using text, recorded or computer-generated voice, video and/or graphic animation. Preferably, an authoring tool embodying the invention allows an author to specify criteria for which actions are to be played back, thereby providing an author with a mechanism for focusing on a particular subset of the recorded actions.