METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING PHOTOS, VIDEOS, RSS AND OTHER MEDIA CONTENT IN FULL-SCREEN IMMERSIVE VIEW AND GRID-VIEW USING A BROWSER FEATURE

• US 20080092054A1
• Filed: 05/21/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Media, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shoemaker, Austin, Bhumkar, Soujanya, Mehta, Mayank, Schwarzapel, Josh
• Granted Patent: US 8,756,510 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/739
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

User-initiated or intelligently automated acquisition, extraction and presentation of content such as photos, videos, and/or other content (e.g., news stories, product displays, advertisements, etc.), from a Web site in a full-screen slideshow via client-side software, which may be implemented as a stand-alone application, an extension (a.k.a. plug-in, or add-on), a Web browser feature (a.k.a. function), or as an embedded component associated with the content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising displaying, in response to user input associated with a previously displayed reduced-size version of a content item obtained from an Internet source, a full-screen view of the content item retrieved from its Internet source, the full-screen view rendered in a viewer launched in response to the user input.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content item is an image.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content item is a photo.

4. The computer-implement method of claim 1, wherein the content item is a video item.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content item is text.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user input comprises election of a graphical element displayed in response to a cursor event.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the cursor event comprises a mouse-over of the reduced-size version of the content item.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the graphical element is styled to indicate availability of a full-screen immersive viewing mode.

9. A computer-implemented method, comprising initiating a full-screen slideshow of Internet-based content items in response to user input associated with a previously displayed reduced-size version of a first one of the content items obtained from an Internet source, the full-screen slideshow rendered in a viewer launched in response to the user input.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the user input comprises selection of a graphical element displayed in response to a cursor event.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the cursor event comprises a mouse-over of the reduced-size version of the first one of the content items.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the graphical element is styled to indicate availability of a full-screen immersive viewing mode.

13. A computer-based presentation system, implemented as computer-readable instructions to be executed by a computer processor and stored on a computer-readable medium, the presentation system being configured to display a slideshow of images in a full-screen immersive view in response to user input associated with a previously displayed reduced-size version of one of the images as obtained from an Internet source.

14. The computer-based presentation system of claim 13, further comprising a thumbnail strip configured to display thumbnail views of the images.

15. The computer-based presentation system of claim 13, further comprising an information bar configured to display information concerning a present one of the images presented in the slideshow.

16. The computer-based presentation system of claim 15, wherein the information bar is configured to display path information identifying a source of the present one of the images.

17. The computer-based presentation system of claim 13, further comprising means for a user to rate the images.

18. The computer-based presentation system of claim 13, further comprising means for a user to share the slideshow.

19. The computer-based presentation system of claim 13, further comprising means for displaying content associated with search results as alternative to images displayed as the slideshow.

20. The computer-based presentation system of claim 13, further configured to present a continuously generated sequence of media items modulated in real-time via user feedback in response to previously presented items.