Patent ID: 7801890

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a request from a user to identify a set of digital content at a content source; retrieving access history for individual portions of digital content that match the request, the access history including a number of times the individual portions of digital content have been accessed from the content source by at least one other user; producing a set of digital content indicative of the access history for each individual portion of digital content; and outputting the set of digital content that matches the request and that reflects the access history for individual portions of digital content, which includes: displaying a representation of at least an individual portion of the access history along with the digital content; wherein receiving the request includes: receiving a request to identify digital image content that has a respective access history, the respective access history describing at least one access of the digital image content by at least one different user during a time range provided by the request; wherein retrieving access history includes: retrieving (i) a first access history describing at least one access of first digital image content by a first different user during the time range and (ii) a second access history describing at least one access of second digital image content by a second different user during the time range; and wherein producing the set of digital content includes: wherein producing the set of digital content includes: in response to the request: generating a first thumbnail representing the first digital image content having the first access history, the first digital image content identified due to the first digital content having the first access history; generating a second thumbnail representing the second digital image content having the second access history, the second digital image content identified due to the second digital content having the second access history; and identifying (i) the first access history, (ii) the first thumbnail, (iii) the second access history and (iv) the second thumbnail as respective parts of the set of digital content.