Real-time display of multiple images

• US 10,491,659 B1
• Filed: 12/30/2016
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Skyrm, Matthew James, Jacobson, Joshua Robert Russell, Burke, Eric P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Desrosiers, Evans
• Application Number:
  US15/396,133
• Time in Patent Office: 1,061 Days
• Field of Search: 713168-174, 713182-186, 713202, 709206, 709225, 709229, 709249, 709389, 726 2- 8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4053 without floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers

Abstract

A user can share (show) multimedia information while simultaneously communicating (telling) with one or more other users over a network. Multimedia information is received from at least one source. The multimedia information may be manually and/or automatically annotated and shared with other users. The multimedia information may be displayed in an integrated live view simultaneously with other modes of communication, such as video, voice, or text. A simultaneous sharing communication interface provides an immersive experience that lets a user communicate via text, voice, video, sounds, music, or the like, with one or more other users while also simultaneously sharing media such as photos, videos, movies, images, graphics, illustrations, animations, presentations, narratives, music, sounds, applications, files, and the like. The simultaneous sharing interface enables a user to experience a higher level of intimacy in their communication with others over a network.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating, by a network platform, a real-time slide show comprising user submitted image items appended in an order based on timestamps, the user submitted image items submitted to the real-time slide show by a plurality of user devices;

receiving, from one of the plurality of user devices, an additional image item as a submission to the real-time slide show;

updating, by the network platform, the real-time slide show to display the additional image item appended after the user submitted image items based on the order of timestamps, the user submitted image items and the additional image item being automatically annotated in the real-time slide show with a location identifier; and

transmitting, by the network platform, the updated real-time slide show including the user submitted image items and the additional image item to one or more of the plurality of user devices.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the user submitted image items and the additional image item are annotated in the real-time slide show by marking the user submitted image items and the additional image item with the location identifier.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the user submitted image items and the additional image item are specified as submissions using a share user interface configured to submit content the real-time slide show.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the location identifier is a tag.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the location identifier is a geographic location identifier.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the real-time slide show automatically appends images in real-time or near real-time as the user submitted image items are submitted to the real-time slide show by the plurality of user devices.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the real-time slide show is independently navigable by the plurality of user devices.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the user submitted image items in the order based on timestamps is automatically annotated with timestamp data indicating a time of submission to the real-time slide show.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the user submitted image items comprises at least one of:

an image, or a video.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the network platform is a social network site.

11. A system comprising:

a memory comprising instructions; and

one or more computer processors of a network platform;

wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising;

generating a real-time slide show comprising user submitted image items appended in an order based on timestamps the user submitted image items submitted to the real-time slide show by a plurality of user devices;

receiving, from one of the plurality of user devices, an additional image item as a submission to the real-time slide show;

updating, the real-time slide show to display the additional image item appended after the user submitted image items based on the order of timestamps, the user submitted image items and the additional image item being automatically annotated in the real-time slide show with a location identifier; and

transmitting the updated real-time slide show including the user submitted image items and the additional image item to one or more of the plurality of user devices.

12. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the user submitted image items and the additional image item are annotated in the real-time slide show by marking the user submitted image items and the additional image item with the location identifier.

13. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the user submitted image items and the additional image item are specified as submissions using a share user interface configured to submit content the real-time slide show.

14. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the location identifier is a tag.

15. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the network platform is a social network site.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage device including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

generating, by a network platform, a real-time slide show comprising user submitted image items appended in an order based on timestamps the user submitted image items submitted to the real-time slide show by a plurality of user devices;

receiving, from one of the plurality of user devices, an additional image item as a submission to the real-time slide show;

updating, by the network platform, the real-time slide show to display the additional image item appended after the user submitted image items based on the order of timestamps, the user submitted image items and the additional image item being automatically annotated in the real-time slide show with a location identifier; and

transmitting, by the network platform, the updated real-time slide show including the user submitted image items and the additional image item to one or more of the plurality of user devices.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage device as recited in claim 16, wherein the user submitted image items and the additional image item are annotated in the real-time slide show by marking the user submitted image items and the additional image item with the location identifier.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage device as recited in claim 16, wherein the location identifier is a tag.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage device as recited in claim 16, wherein the real-time slide show automatically appends the user submitted image items in real-time or near real-time as the user submitted image items are submitted to the real-time slide show by the plurality of user devices.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage device as recited in claim 16, wherein the real-time slide show is independently navigable by the plurality of user devices.