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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2007
Applicants:

Simon Widdowson, Dublin, CA (US);

Ramin Samadani, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Ullas Gargi, Los Altos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Simon Widdowson, Dublin, CA (US);

Ramin Samadani, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Ullas Gargi, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention include a grazing routine that selects data objects from a data-object library or database based on selection-criterion values associated with each data object and provides the data objects to a presentation routine that uses the data objects to continuously update a data-object presentation. User input directs subsequent data-object selection by the grazing routine to allow users to intuitively navigate and search a large data-object library in order to locate one or a set of particular data objects. Users can input selection commands to specific presented data-objects in order to focus subsequent data-object selection and data-object presentation to increasingly smaller sub-populations of data objects. In the absence of user input, the sub-population of data objects from which data objects are selected for presentation may be increased.


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