Facebook, Inc.

Daniel Reed Weatherford

Matthew Joseph Cahill

Christopher W Putnam

David Harry Garcia

Robert Douglas Arnold

The functionality of a browser application is enhanced using a browser plug-in, which enables the browser application to access portions of a file system not otherwise accessible to the browser application. The enhanced functionality provided by the browser plug-in is used in one example by an image uploading web application. The browser application may also start a task in the background, such as a task for uploading several images, and then monitor the progress of the task even when the browser application navigates away from the page that initiated the task. The browser application may use a local web server running on the client device to perform tasks, including the rendering of images and monitoring progress of long running tasks.

Rendering a web page using content communicated to a browser application from a process running on a client

Communicating information about a local machine to a browser application

In one embodiment, a computing device incorporating a camera receives an instruction associated with the camera to display an image generated by the camera in an area within a graphical user interface of an application running on the computing device. The computing device determines a width and a height of the area. The computing device instructs the camera to configure the image, in connection with its generation, for display in the area. And the computing device displays in the area the image as generated and configured by the camera.

Camera preview via video tag

Monitoring a background process in a web browser and providing status of same

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Emerald Hills, CA, United States of America

Daniel Reed Weatherford