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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2005
Richard Skrenta, San Carlos, CA (US);
Richard Skrenta, San Carlos, CA (US);
Topix LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more pictures may be selected for use with a text item, such as an article (news story, blog entry, online magazine) or post (e.g. informal blog entry). Pictures may be selected from a library, such as a collection of stock photographs. Stock photographs are pictures that are available for purchase and use. Information about the content of the picture may be identified. The text item that is to be supplied the picture may be also be analyzed in its content. A given picture from the collection is then programmatically selected based on the identified information about the picture and the text item. A presentation may be created based on the text item and the given picture that is selected.