Damon Neal Anderson

US Patent:

20130239027, Sep 12, 2013

Filed:

Oct 23, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/658042

Inventors:

Damon Anderson - San Francisco CA, US
Dimitri Dupuis-Latour - Paris, FR

Assignee:

APPLE INC. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/0484

US Classification:

715760

Abstract:

An apparatus and method are described for generating wiki preview pages. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises the operations of: detecting that a wiki page has been edited by a user; responsively generating an entry in a wiki preview queue, the entry containing a network address identifying the edited wiki page and user session data needed to access the wiki page; identifying the edited wiki page within the wiki preview queue; and using the network address and session data needed to access the edited wiki page; taking a snapshot of the wiki page to generate a thumbnail image and using the snapshot to generate a wiki preview page; and storing the wiki preview page with the thumbnail image on a storage device accessible by end users accessing the wiki page.