Patent Document ID: 20180053047
Application ID: 15396708
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for providing relevance-based image-centric information, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of images; linking each received image, included in the plurality of images, to an appropriate standard format, wherein the appropriate standard format is selected from a plurality of standard formats, wherein the selection is based on a greatest degree of relevance between the image and the selected one of the plurality of formats; converting each of the received images into a linked standard image, said linked standard image corresponding to the appropriate standard format at a higher degree of correspondence than the received image; loading the plurality of converted images into a database; searching the database utilizing a query, said query defining the searching; returning, in response to the query, a plurality of resultant images; determining a search relevance result value for each resultant image, included in the plurality of resultant images, said search relevance result value being based on the level at which the document fits the query, where the most relevant is ranked highest and the least relevant is ranked lowest; ordering the resultant images based on the search relevance result values; loading the resultant images onto a user interfacing display, wherein a first set of the plurality of images are displayed on the display prior to loading of all of the plurality of images, the display appearing to have loaded resultant images that are not included in the first set, but at least a portion of the resultant images that are not included in the first set are in the process of being loaded; and arranging the images on the user interfacing display into four regions: an image thumbnail region comprising thumbnails of the images; a full-scale image region comprising full-size views of the images; an image metadata region comprising metadata relating to the images; and a filter results region comprising methods for narrowing the query.