Persistent photo tray
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorScott Schiller
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Abstract
Method and system for maintaining a persistent photo tray on a website are disclosed. The method includes displaying a photo tray in a browser window for storing one or more thumbnail images, maintaining a unique identifier for each of the one or more thumbnail images, tracking the unique identifier of each thumbnail image using a corresponding cookie, monitoring the one or more thumbnail images in the photo tray, and updating the corresponding cookie in response to changes to the thumbnail images in the photo tray.
Claims24
A method for maintaining a persistent photo tray on a website, comprising:
- displaying a photo tray in a browser window for storing one or more thumbnail images;
- maintaining a unique identifier for each of the one or more thumbnail images;
- tracking the unique identifier of each thumbnail image using a corresponding cookie;
- monitoring the one or more thumbnail images in the photo tray;
- and
- updating the corresponding cookie in response to changes to the thumbnail images in the photo tray.
A system for maintaining a persistent photo tray on a website, comprising:
- one or more servers for interfacing between client devices through a communication network, the one or more servers further comprise:
- logic for displaying a photo tray in a browser window for storing one or more thumbnail images;
- logic for maintaining a unique identifier for each of the one or more thumbnail images;
- logic for tracking the unique identifier of each thumbnail image using a corresponding cookie;
- logic for monitoring the one or more thumbnail images in the photo tray;
- and
- logic for updating the corresponding cookie in response to changes to the thumbnail images in the photo tray.
A computer program product for maintaining a persistent photo tray on a website, comprising a medium storing executable program code, the computer program product comprising:
- code for displaying a photo tray in a browser window for storing one or more thumbnail images;
- code for maintaining a unique identifier for each of the one or more thumbnail images;
- code for tracking the unique identifier of each thumbnail image using a corresponding cookie;
- code for monitoring the one or more thumbnail images in the photo tray;
- and
- code for updating the corresponding cookie in response to changes to the thumbnail images in the photo tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.