Cygnus Systems, Inc., the holder of the '850 patent, has asserted the patent in litigation against Google, Microsoft and Apple alleging their use of document preview icons - thumbnails - in their operating systems and browsers. If successful in this action, this patent may be asserted against other operating systems and browsers. The '850 patent claims continuation from a patent application filed June 12, 1998.
#36Object-based navigation: an intuitive navigation style for content-oriented integration environment
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Summary / Description
Summary / DescriptionThese multimedia data are extracted using a Web mirroring package. From this extracted data, COIR creates the picture indices, thumbnail files for browsing and tables to refer the original data location (URL) automatically [See 4.1]. . . In this case, video data and thumbnail images of each key frame which are created automatically by COIR are displayed.
 
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Type of Prior ArtPrint Publication
 
Publication Title *Proceedings of the eighth ACM conference on Hypertext
 
AuthorKyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea, Yusaku Okamura, Wen-Syan Li, Yoshinori Hara
 
ISBN0-89791-866-5
 
Page Range75-86
 
MediumJournal article
 
Publication Date *April 30, 1997
 
URLhttp://portal.acm.org/citation....
 
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These multimedia data are extracted using a Web mirroring package. From this extracted data, COIR creates the picture indices, thumbnail files for browsing and tables to refer the original data location (URL) automatically [See 4.1]. . . In this case, video data and thumbnail images of each key frame which are created automatically by COIR are displayed.
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Claims
The invention with a plurality of icons and relationships

A method for providing a user interface for accessing a file based on a corresponding icon comprising: storing a plurality of icons in a memory along with a corresponding plurality of references to an underlying file system for storage information for a plurality of files, each icon having an appearance substantially depicting information content from its corresponding file, wherein the plurality of icons were created by capturing automatically one or more graphical representations of one or more portions of information content of an icon's corresponding file while an application was manipulating an icon's corresponding file and include selected portions of the captured one or more graphical representations of the information content; linking an application to each icon based utility on the ability of the application to manipulate the information content of the file corresponding to the icon; providing a window on a display screen for displaying the plurality of icons; invoking the application for manipulating the information content of the file corresponding to the selected icon upon selection of an icon from the plurality of icons in the window; accessing the file designated by the reference to the underlying file system corresponding to the selected icon; and opening the accessed file into the corresponding application.
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Anticipates an application (COIR) automatically creating thumbnail images of video files.
Anticipates an application (COIR) automatically creating thumbnail images of video files.
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Graphical representation of files and method for accessing

A method of accessing one or more computer files via a graphical icon, comprising the steps of: capturing automatically one or more graphical representations of one or more portions of information content of one or more computer files while an application is manipulating the one or more computer files; creating automatically an icon including selected portions of the captured one or more graphical representations of the information content of the one or more computer files wherein the icon graphically depicts at least a portion of the information content from the one or more computer files and wherein the icon is created while the application was manipulating the icon's corresponding one or more computer files and includes selected portions of the captured one or more graphical representations of the information content; linking the icon to the application and to the one or more computer files based on the ability of the application to manipulate the information content of the one or more computer files corresponding to the icon; storing the icon in a memory; displaying the icon in a window on a display screen; invoking the application for manipulating the information content of the one or more computer files upon selection of the icon by accessing the more or more computer files by reference to an underlying file system corresponding to the icon and opening the one or more computer files within the application.
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Anticipates an application (COIR) automatically creating thumbnail images of video files.
Anticipates an application (COIR) automatically creating thumbnail images of video files.
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