METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINDING DATA OBJECTS WITHIN LARGE DATA-OBJECT LIBRARIES

摘要

Various embodiments of the present invention include a method for searching or browsing data objects (302) within a data-object library (102). A current sub-population of data objects (422, 434) is initialized. The current sub-population (422, 434) contains data objects selected from the data-object library and defined by current data-object-selection criteria (204, 310). Then, in a continuously iterating fashion, data objects are selected (1113) from the current sub-population and presented, and the current data-object-selection criteria are modified in order to modify the current sub-population of data objects (422, 434) from which data objects are subsequently selected for presentation, the modification elicited by input (1104) and automatically (1109), by the grazing routine (208), following a period without input.