Patent Document ID: 7894688
Application ID: 10598228
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for creating an icon, the method comprising: determining a relative importance (I i ,. .. I N ) of each image ( 1 , 2 ,. .. N) of a group of images, wherein the group of images includes a plurality of images ( 1 , 2 ,. .. , N), and wherein the relative importance I i (for i=1 to N) of each image of the plurality of images ( 1 , 2 ,. .. , N) is a number between 0 and 1; and generating the icon automatically in response to determining the relative importance of each image of the group of images, wherein the icon comprises a graphic in a graphical user interface to represent the group of images, wherein the graphic is composed of an adapted selection of images selected from the group of images based on the determined relative importance of each image of the group of images, wherein relative importance of each image evolves and changes every time a factor taken into account for determining the relative importance of the corresponding image changes, and wherein the number of images that are selected to be incorporated in the icon is not fixed, but is an adapted number based on the determined relative importance (I 1. .. I N ) of each image ( 1 , 2 ,. .. N), further wherein the adapted number of images incorporated in the icon is selected based on a sum of the relative importance of each of the images included in the icon being, at a minimum, a certain predetermined value.