Rendering of content in a defined region of a graphical user interface

A computer system comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory system having a rendering application that, when executed by the processor,
• causes the computer system to perform the operation of:
• displaying, on a graphical user interface, a plurality of icons in defined regions and corresponding to different video data sets, wherein there is a different defined region per icon;
• receiving an input that identifies a particular icon;
• in response to the input, rendering a particular video corresponding to the particular icon, the particular video rendered in the particular defined region in which the particular icon was displayed;
• associating sections of the particular defined region corresponding to the particular icon with respective time segments of the video based on a pixel size of the defined region and a time length of the video;
• while rendering the video, receiving a first further input on the video identifying a particular section of the defined region corresponding to the particular icon;
• and
• in response to the first further input, executing a first command associated with a time segment of the video associated with the particular section of the defined region corresponding to the particular icon.

A method of rendering content in a graphical user interface, comprising:

• displaying, on the graphical user interface, a plurality of thumbnail icons in defined regions and, corresponding to different video data sets, wherein there is a different defined region per thumbnail icon;
• receiving input moving a mouse pointer over a particular thumbnail icon;
• in response to the input moving the mouse pointer over the particular thumbnail icon, rendering a particular video corresponding to the particular thumbnail icon, the particular video rendered in the particular defined region in which the particular thumbnail icon was displayed;
• associating each of multiple sections of the defined region corresponding to the particular thumbnail icon with a corresponding time segment of the video, wherein a length of time each section is associated with is determined based on a time length of the video and a size of each section is determined based on a size of the defined region;
• while rendering the video, receiving a first further input on the video identifying a particular section of the defined region corresponding to the particular thumbnail icon;
• and
• in response to the first further input, playing a portion of the video associated with a time segment of the video corresponding to the identified section of the defined region corresponding to the particular thumbnail icon.