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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2008
David Kirk, Cambridge, GB;
Nicolas Villar, Cambridge, GB;
Richard Banks, Egham, GB;
David Alexander Butler, Cambridge, GB;
Shahram Izadi, Cambridge, GB;
Abigail Sellen, Cambridge, GB;
Stuart Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
David Kirk, Cambridge, GB;
Nicolas Villar, Cambridge, GB;
Richard Banks, Egham, GB;
David Alexander Butler, Cambridge, GB;
Shahram Izadi, Cambridge, GB;
Abigail Sellen, Cambridge, GB;
Stuart Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Retrieval and display of digital media items is described. For example, the digital media items may be photographs, videos, audio files, emails, text documents or parts of these. In an embodiment a dedicated apparatus having a touch display screen is provided in a form designed to look like a domestic fish tank. In an embodiment graphical animated agents are depicted on the display as fish whose motion varies according to at least one behavior parameter which is pseudo random. In embodiments, the agents have associated search criteria and when a user selects one or more agents the associated search criteria are used in a retrieval operation to retrieve digital media items from a store. In some embodiments media items are communicated between the apparatus and a portable communications device using a communications link established by tapping the portable device against the media retrieval and display apparatus.