Patent ID: 9046980
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for allowing a viewer to obtain supplemental information pertaining to an image hosted on a website common to a plurality of users, said method comprising: sensing a selection by a particular viewer at said particular viewer's display of a particular viewed image, wherein said particular viewed image is displayed in a specific area of a display space; upon said sensing, selecting supplemental information pertinent to said particular viewed image based, at least in part, on attributes of said particular viewer and on a profile supplied by an originator of said particular viewed image, including determining what supplemental information is available and what available supplemental information said particular viewer is entitled to view; upon said sensing, causing said particular viewed image to appear to flip over within said display space; displaying said supplemental information pertinent to said sensed particular viewed image, said supplemental information provided by said website on a real-time basis; causing said supplemental information to appear to be displayed on a back side of said flipped over image within said display space; displaying in conjunction with said particular image a control icon unique to said image; sensing when said particular viewer has selected said control icon; and causing, in response to said sensing when said particular viewer has selected said control icon, an additional flip to occur, such that additional supplemental information appears to be displayed on said back side of said flipped over image within said display space.