Auto thumbnail gallery
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Abstract
A tool that enables a user to easily and automatically create a photo gallery of thumbnail images on a Web page. A user selects a group of original images, and the tool automatically produces a corresponding group of thumbnail images on the Web page, with hyperlinks to the corresponding original images. Four predefined templates are included, each defining a different format for the thumbnail images including a vertically oriented gallery, a horizontally oriented gallery, a slide show gallery, and a montage gallery. Captions and descriptive text can also be entered and displayed for the thumbnail images in most of the style galleries. An edit function enables a user to add or delete images to existing galleries and to automatically modify the appearance of a photo gallery by selecting and applying a different template.
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60 Claims
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50. A method for enabling a user to automatically introduce a plurality of thumbnail images into a Web page to represent a plurality of original images, each thumbnail image having a size that is substantially smaller than each corresponding original image, comprising the steps of:
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(a) enabling the user to select the plurality of original images that are to be represented on the Web page by the plurality of thumbnail images;
(b) producing a thumbnail image from each original image;
(c) determining a position of each thumbnail image on the Web page in accord with a format specified by a template;
(d) automatically providing a hyperlink from each thumbnail image to each corresponding original image in the Web page; and
(e) enabling the user to save the Web page that includes the plurality of thumbnail images and hyperlinks to the original images, each thumbnail image appearing in the position specified by the template when the Web page is displayed, selection of a thumbnail image and activation of a hyperlink associated with said thumbnail image causing the corresponding original image to be retrieved for display. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A method for enabling a user to automatically delete a plurality of thumbnail images in a Web page that represent a plurality of original images, each thumbnail image having a size that is substantially smaller than each corresponding original image, comprising the steps of:
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(a) enabling the user to select the plurality of original images that are to be represented on the Web page by the plurality of thumbnail images;
(b) producing a thumbnail image from each original image;
(c) determining a position of each thumbnail image on the Web page in accord with a format specified by a template; and
(d) automatically deleting the plurality of thumbnail images from a storage if the Web page on which the thumbnail images are referenced is deleted, to cleanup the storage by eliminating the thumbnail images that are now not being used.
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58. A method for enabling a user to selectively adjust the size of each of a plurality of thumbnail images in a Web page that represent a plurality of original images, each thumbnail image having a size that is substantially smaller than each corresponding original image, comprising the steps of:
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(a) enabling the user to select the plurality of original images that are to be represented on the Web page by the plurality of thumbnail images;
(b) producing a thumbnail image from each original image; and
(c) displaying an option to enable the user to selectively adjust a size of a thumbnail image on the Web page, and to selectively automatically apply a selected size to all of the plurality of thumbnail images on the Web page. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60)
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