Patent ID: 8201098
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for generating icons, the method comprising: providing a personal communications window for transmitting and receiving electronic communications; providing a predefined capture area, the predefined capture area being a movable object on the user's display allowing the user to move the predefined capture area independent of the personal communications window to a desired location on the user's display and, when moved to the desired location, causes the predefined capture area to be displayed behind content occupying the same space of a subset portion of the user's display as the predefined capture area; activating an application capture trigger; generating, in response to activation of the application capture trigger, an application capture of content located in the subset portion of the user's display occupying the same space of the user's display as the predefined capture area; and automatically assigning, with one or more processing devices, all or part of the application capture as an icon representative of a user for personal communications.