Personalized memory compilation for members of a group and collaborative method to build a memory compilation

• US 10,346,512 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2016
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Applaud, LLC
• Original Assignee: Applaud, LLC
• Inventors: Reinders, Robert R., Romano, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie A
• Application Number:
  US15/019,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20160154770A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,246 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5846 using extracted text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

The present invention may provide a method and apparatus for building a personalized memory compilation for members of a group: providing digitally encoded images, text and other data; analyzing data; eliciting a characteristic of data; selecting a plurality of the provided data; arranging the provided data, to generate a personalized memory compilation; wherein at least one of a selecting or an arranging step is performed in response to elicited characteristics. Additionally, the invention may comprise a collaborative method and apparatus for gathering, enriching, preserving, and sharing memories for members of a group using the combination of 1) collaboration through nominal group recall and 2) recording of personal preferences to produce a digital asset that contains a unique blend of selected profiles, images, stories, personalized notes, and other relevant content from more than one group member to constitute a more complete and accurate rendering of an important occasion experienced by the group.

Claims

1. A collection of personalized memory compilations produced by a process comprising:

a) assembling a content collection through nominal group recall by, for each of a plurality of members of a group defined by a shared experience, independently performing a set of acts comprising;

i) prompting that member to provide computer readable data items representing memories of that member which are relevant to the shared experience;

ii) receiving, from that member, one or more computer readable data items representing memories of that member which are relevant to the shared experience;

iii) storing the one or more computer readable data items received from that member in the content collection;

b) selectively including data items representing intersections of memories of different individuals in personalized memory compilations by, for each of the plurality of members of the group, performing a set of acts comprising the following acts with that member as subject member;

i) receiving, from the subject member, memory enrichment information, wherein the memory enrichment information comprises information identifying other group members whose memories should be included in a personalized memory compilation for the subject member; and

ii) generating the personalized memory compilation for the subject member, wherein the personalized memory compilation for the subject member comprises;

A) the computer readable data items stored in the content collection which represent memories of the subject member which are relevant to the shared experience; and

B) the computer readable data items stored in the content collection which represent memories of other members identified as members whose memories should be included in the personalized memory compilation for the subject member;

wherein the collection of personalized memory compilations includes a personalized memory compilation for each of the plurality of members of the group.

2. The collection of personalized memory compilations of claim 1, wherein the process by which the collection of personalized memory compilations are produced comprises, for each of the plurality of members of the group:

i) providing that group member a list of other individuals who could potentially submit computer readable data items which should be included in that group member'"'"'s personalized memory compilation; and

ii) enabling that group member to select individuals from the list of other individuals whose computer readable data items should be included in that group member'"'"'s personalized memory compilation.

3. The collection of personalized memory compilations of claim 1, wherein:

a) the personalized memory compilation for a first group member from the plurality of members of the group comprises;

i) information from an individual who is not a member of the group which is specific to the first group member; and

ii) information from another group member which his'"'"' is specific to the first group member; and

b) the information which is specific to the first group member is included only in the first group member'"'"'s personalized memory compilation.

4. The collection of personalized memory compilations of claim 1, wherein the personalized memory compilation for a first member from the plurality of members of the group excludes at least one set of computer readable data items which is included in personalized memory compilations for other group members.

5. The collection of personalized memory compilations of claim 4, wherein the group comprises a second group member in addition to the plurality of members of the group for whom personalized memory compilations are generated, and wherein the set of computer readable data items which is excluded from the personalized memory compilation of the first group member comprises data items submitted by the second group member.

6. The collection of personalized memory compilations of claim 1, in the process by which the collection of personalized memory compilations are produced, for each of the plurality of members of the group, the act of prompting that member to provide computer readable data items representing memories of that member which are relevant to the shared experience comprises providing that member with variable questions which are specific to the group defined based on the shared experience.

7. The collection of personalized memory compilations of claim 1, wherein each personalized memory compilation in the collection of personalized memory compilations is a book.

8. The collection of personalized memory compilations of claim 1, wherein the collection of personalized memory compilations is adapted to elicit latent memories from the plurality of members of the group by providing the plurality of members of the group access to other group members'"'"' memories in a controlled manner after those memories are assembled into personalized memory compilations through nominal group recall and selective inclusion.

9. A manufacture comprising a plurality of personalized memory compilations for members of a group defined based on a shared experience, wherein:

a) each of the memory compilations from the plurality of personalized memory compilations;

i) is personalized for a different member of the group defined based on the shared experience; and

ii) comprises a set of items representing explicit memories of the member for whom it is personalized which are relevant to the shared experience;

b) the plurality of personalized memory compilations comprises;

i) a first memory compilation which;

A) is personalized for a first member of the group; and

B) comprises the set of items representing explicit memories of a second member of the group which are relevant to the shared experience;

ii) a second memory compilation which;

A) is personalized for the second member of the group; and

B) comprises the set of items representing explicit memories of a third member of the group which are relevant to the shared experience;

c) the set of items representing explicit memories of the third member of the group which are comprised by the second memory compilation are excluded from the first memory compilation.

10. The manufacture of claim 9, wherein the plurality of personalized memory compilations comprises, for each of the members of the group defined based on the shared experience, a book for that member of the group.

11. The manufacture of claim 9, wherein:

a) the first personalized memory compilation comprises information from an individual who is not a member of the group which is specific to the first group member; and

b) the information which is specific to the first group member is included only in the first group member'"'"'s personalized memory compilation.

12. The manufacture of claim 11, wherein the information which is specific to the first group member comprises information from another group member which is specific to the first group member.

13. The manufacture of claim 9, wherein the plurality of personalized memory compilations for members of the group defined based on the shared experience are adapted to elicit latent memories from the members of the group by providing the members of the group access to each other'"'"'s memories in a controlled manner after those memories are assembled into personalized memory compilations through nominal group recall and selective inclusion.