Appeal 2007-0039
Application 09/799,413
3. In the Multimedia Publishing (MP) system of Ferrel, content
and design are stored as separate objects so that many different pieces of
content can be viewed with the same appearance (col. 6, ll. 54-57). The
system also keeps track of the links between a piece of content and its
associated page layout, but does not actually format the data in the content
with a particular style (col. 6, ll. 64-67). Among the objects used for
authoring, Ferrel describes content objects as stories, images, audio, etc.
(col. 8, ll. 2-3). The MP system objects are stored using “caching object
stores” (COSs), which are present at the publisher workstation and in each
MPS server at the publication storage and distribution center (FIG. 2). Each
customer workstation also has a COS so that the customer can store and
retrieve MP system objects when assembling content into controls on pages
(col. 8, ll. 7-19).
4. In the MP system of Ferrel, titles, such as a title A 140, title B
142, or title P 144 can be divided into two parts: the content (148, 152, 156)
-- the information such as bitmaps, video clips, audio, animation, or stories
that make up a title -- and the title layout, also termed the design (146, 150,
154) -- the overall look and feel of a title (col. 9, ll. 20-25). Using this
technique a publisher can change a title on an ongoing basis by merely
updating the content 112, 114, 116 which has been placed into various
folders or containers within the master title. Using what is called dynamic
title synthesis or dynamic synthesis, content can be continually updated
without any need to modify and update the title design (col. 9, ll. 33-41),
noting flexibility as its advantage (col. 9, ll. 42-44).
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