Previewing file or document content
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAnthony E. Martinez, Michael D. Rahn
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Abstract
An easy-to-use, intuitive previewing technique for enabling users to refresh their memories about the content of Web pages and/or files and other documents by previewing that content. The disclosed techniques enable previewing content without actually navigating to the Web page or without actually opening the file or document. A “previewer” graphic image may be dragged over a hyperlink or file name (or file icon) to signal that a preview of the associated Web page or file should be rendered.
Claims14
A content previewer, comprising:
- a graphic previewer image;
- means for placing the graphic previewer image over a representation of content to be previewed;
- and
- means for rendering a preview of the content to be previewed, responsive to operation of the means for placing.
A method of previewing content in a computing system, comprising steps of:
- providing a previewer graphic for dragging over a representation of content to be previewed;
- and
- rendering a preview of the content to be previewed, responsive to dragging of the provided previewer graphic.
A system for previewing content in a computing system, comprising:
- means for providing a previewer graphic for dragging over a representation of content to be previewed;
- means for detecting that the provided previewer graphic has been dragged over the representation;
- and
- means for rendering a preview of the content to be previewed, responsive to the means for detecting, wherein the rendered preview is rendered within the previewer graphic.
A computer program product for previewing content in a computing system, the computer program product embodied on one or more computer-readable media and comprising:
- computer-readable program code means for providing a previewer graphic for dragging over a representation of content to be previewed;
- computer-readable program code means for detecting that the provided previewer graphic has been dragged over the representation;
- and
- computer-readable program code means for rendering a preview of the content to be previewed, responsive to the computer-readable program code means for detecting, wherein the rendered preview is rendered within the previewer graphic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.