System and method for mobile presentation processing

摘要

The invention comprises a system and method using a software application (“app”) running on portable computing devices to download presentations from a central server as thumbnails and manipulate the presentations in thumbnail format. The thumbnails can provide a storybook-type presentation that takes much less memory on a portable device than full native presentation format files. With the thumbnail file, the portable device user can move from slide to slide, reorder slides, delete slides, add slides from other thumbnail files, and add notes/text. After a new presentation is created using one or more thumbnail files, it may be uploaded to a central server where a server-side application recompiles the new presentation into a native format presentation from the thumbnail format. In this manner, presentations can be sourced from virtually anywhere and using nearly any computing device from which one can view thumbnail presentations. Other variations and enhancements are disclosed.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for processing presentation materials, the method comprising:
storing at a server a plurality of presentation files in a native format; converting, by the server, at least one of the plurality of presentation files into a thumbnail format file; downloading at least one thumbnail format file from the server to a portable computing device; receiving, at the server and from the portable computing device, a new presentation or a modified presentation as a thumbnail format file; recompiling, by the server, said received thumbnail format file into a native format presentation file; and storing at the server said recompiled native format presentation file.