DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE-BASED CONTENT DELIVERY

摘要

Media content is provided using thumbnail-based images and respective archives linked thereto. In accordance with one or more embodiments, access is provided to interactive single-page and multi-page thumbnail images, with each thumbnail image being linked to at least one of a plurality of media-content units in respective sets of the media-content units (e.g., to pages within respective articles each having one or more pages, with each page having predefined text and image data in a set layout). Archive data is identified and communicated for each media content unit, responsive to user input data indicating a selection of one of the thumbnail images, and based on availability of the archive data locally at a user device.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a first circuit-based module configured and arranged to provide access to interactive thumbnail images, each thumbnail image being linked to at least one of a plurality of media-content data groups in respective sets of the media-content data groups, by
providing a single-page thumbnail image for each media-content data group including a single image-based media content page to be displayed at a remote media access device, the single-page thumbnail image including image data that is based upon an image displayed on the single image-based media content page, andproviding a multi-page thumbnail image for each media-content data group including at least two image-based media content pages to be displayed at the remote media access device, the multi-page thumbnail image including image data that is based on an image displayed on at least two of the at least two image-based media content pages, the single-page and multi-page thumbnail images being of the same display size; and a second circuit-based module configured and arranged to identify and communicate archive data for each media content data group by, in response to user input data provided at the remote media access device, the user input data and indicating a selection of one of the thumbnail images,
identifying archive data designated to a media content data group for which the selected thumbnail image is provided, the identified archive data including at least one of images and text for each media content page in the data group,communicating the identified archive data to the remote media access device, in response to the identified archive data including archive data that is not stored in the remote media access device, and provide the identified archive data for access by a user at the remote media access device.