COURSEWARE AUTHORING SYSTEM WHICH ASSEMBLES

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
META4	JOSTENS LEARNING CORPORATION	6170 CORNERSTONE COURT EAST, SUITE 300 SAN DIEGO CA	courseware authoring system which assembles graphics, audio, text and logic into software;METAPHOR;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A DVD authoring system in a processor-based system removes an author from consideration of the DVD Specification during authoring. According to a preferred embodiment, the authoring system provides an authoring engine having an interactive graphical authoring interface, a data management engine, an emulator, a compiler, a multiplexer and a simulator. Using summary authoring data, the compiler builds a skeleton-form PGC layout structure comprising control PGC abstractions and router PGC abstractions. The compiler then resolves the PGC abstractions according to source-target connections. During playback on a DVD player, the PGC abstractions form elements in a connection-switching abstraction superstructure. Accordingly, in response to DVD-consumer and other control events, a source PGC preferably determines target PGC information and then transfers control, via virtual connections through necessary router PGC abstractions, to a target PGC abstraction. The target PGC abstraction then correspondingly initiates playback of a movie chapter or displays a menu.