Method and System for Managing Multimedia Documents

1 . A system for performing an operation on a multimedia document, the multimedia document using a multimodal input, the document and the operation being enhanced through analysis of the multimodal input, the system comprising:

a) a client; and

b) a system server.

2 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the operation comprises at least one of:

a) authoring the multimedia document;

b) managing the multimedia document;

c) retrieving the multimedia document based on a query;

d) accessing the multimedia document; or

e) presenting the multimedia document.

3 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the multimodal input comprises at least one of:

a) a multimedia content;

b) a metadata; or

c) a user input.

4 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the multimodal input is obtained from a source, the source comprising at least one of:

a) a real world environment;

b) a television screen;

c) a computer monitor;

d) a speaker; or

e) a storage.

5 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the client is integrated into a portable device.

6 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system server is connected to the client over a communication network.

7 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system server is integrated with the client on a device.

8 . The system recited in claim 2 wherein the operation is performed using a website.

9 . The system recited in claim 1 further comprising:

storing the document in the system.

10 . The system recited in claim 1 further comprising a mechanism for communicating the document using a communication channel, wherein the communication channel comprises at least one of:

a) e-mail;

b) instant messaging;

c) MMS; or

d) SMS.

11 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the document is configured to include an information service.

12 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the document is classified into a classification.

13 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the document is shared between a plurality of users of the system.

14 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system is configured to restrict the access to the document to a user of the system.

15 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the system is configured to include a financial transaction for performing the operation.

16 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the analysis of a multimodal input includes extraction of an embedded visual element from a visual content.

17 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the computer analysis of a multimodal input includes extraction of textual information from an audio content.

18 . The system recited in claim 1 wherein the computer analysis uses information from a knowledge base.

19 . A method for authoring a document comprising:

a) capturing a multimodal input;

b) extracting an embedded information from the multimodal content;

c) composing the document from the multimodal input content; and

d) storing the document in a documents database.

20 . A method for retrieving and presentation of a document comprising:

a) capturing a multimodal input for generating a query;

b) extracting an embedded information from the multimodal input in the query;

c) identification of the document from a documents database matching the query;

d) communicating the identified document to a client; and

e) presenting the document on the client.