Patent ID: 7895180

Claim:
A content filtering method for selecting a desired piece of content from a plurality of pieces of content, the method comprising the steps of: associating, with at least one processor, each piece of content of the plurality of pieces of content with a piece of additional information about the piece of content and a piece of reduced image data representing the piece of content and registering the piece of additional information and the piece of reduced image data for each piece of content of the plurality of pieces of content in a table of entries for the plurality of pieces of content, wherein each entry in the table of entries includes an identification code that identifies the entry, wherein the piece of additional information includes link information and at least one of date information, title information, and artist information, wherein the link information is automatically extracted from the at least one of date information, title information and artist information; determining a search key based, at least in part, on the piece of additional information stored in the table of entries that is associated with a piece of content corresponding to a piece of reduced image data specified by a user; retrieving from the table based, at least in part, on the search key, the piece of reduced image data associated with the desired piece of content; and presenting the piece of reduced image data associated with the desired piece of content to the user.