US Patent:
20160267089, Sep 15, 2016
Inventors:
Marc Striegel - Altadena CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
A system and method for providing geographical, categorical, and temporal presentation and navigation of contextually organized artistic, historical, and related content are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: retaining, by use of a data processor, one or more libraries of artistic or historical representations and related information as a plurality of content items in a database and making the libraries of content items available to networked computer users, wherein the content items are organized in the database in groupings related to one or more geographical locations, one or more categories, and one or more chronological arrangements, the one or more geographical locations including locations depicted by the content items, the one or more chronological arrangements including times indicative of when the content items were created; providing, by use of the data processor, a computer-implemented navigation facility to enable a user to select among a plurality of browse modes including a geographical browse mode, a categorical browse mode, and a temporal browse mode; generating and presenting to the user, in response to user selection of the geographical browse mode, a corresponding map that includes markers identifying geographical locations related to the plurality of content items; generating and presenting to the user, in response to user selection of the categorical browse mode, a corresponding collection of pre-defined content item categories related to the plurality of content items; and generating and presenting to the user, in response to user selection of the temporal browse mode, a corresponding chronological arrangement that includes content item information blocks arranged in a timeline.