Techniques for electronic aggregation of information
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMichael A. Affronti, Matthew Wood, Tali Roth, Scott Stiles
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Abstract
Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- providing a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles;
- presenting a list of search results each associated with a content file;
- receiving a control directive to associate a search result and a content file for a search result with a presentation tile;
- generating a tile object based on a content file type for the content file and a portion of content from the content file;
- and
- presenting the tile object on the presentation surface.
At least one computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:
- provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles;
- present a list of search results each associated with a content file;
- receive a control directive to associate a search result and a content file for a search result with a presentation tile;
- generate a tile object based on a content file type for the content file and a portion of content from the content file;
- and
- present the tile object on the presentation surface.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor circuit arranged to execute an application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, present a list of search results each associated with a content file, receive a control directive to associate a search result and a content file for a search result with a presentation tile, generate a tile object based on a content file type for the content file and a portion of content from the content file, and store the tile object as part of the presentation surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.