Inventors:
Chaitanya Baru - San Diego CA, US
James Chase - San Clemente CA, US
T. Todd Elvins - Solana Beach CA, US
Robert Todd Fassett - Del Mar CA, US
Ernesto Nebel - Chula Vista CA, US
Assignee:
Oracle Cable, Inc. - Redwood Shores CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/21
Abstract:
Extensible, multi-presentation content is created in human/machine readable form, where each data object may contain numerous data elements that comprise alternate representations of a single piece of information, such as audio, text transcription of the audio, short-form summary of the text, and metadata concerning the story. Advantageously, each data element is presentation-independent, meaning that it does not require a particular type of presentation, such as HTML, WML, etc. Each content instance thus provides raw data, leaving the end-user free to access the data as desired. Specifications such as data type definitions (DTDS) may be used to prescribe that each story include the constituent data elements, e. g. , text, audio, short-form text, metadata, etc. The DTDs define a dialect of extensible Markup Language (XML).