Geo-location based event gallery

• US 10,659,914 B1
• Filed: 12/13/2018
• Issued: 05/19/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Allen, Nicholas Richard, Murphy, Robert Cornelius, Spiegel, Evan
• Primary Examiner(s): Sabouri, Mazda
• Application Number:
  US16/219,577
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0252 based on events or environment, e.g. weather or festivals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/418 Document matching, e.g. of document images
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/61 for local area broadcast, e.g. instore broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 : Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration

Abstract

A computer implemented method may include receiving geo-location data from a device of a user; comparing the geo-location data with a geo-location fence associated with an event; determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event; responsive to the determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event, supplying user-selectable event gallery information, associated with an event gallery of the event, to the device for addition to a destination list on the device; detecting selection of the user-selectable event gallery information in the destination list by the user of the device; and/or responsive to the detecting of the selection of the user-selectable event gallery information by the user of the device, adding the user as a follower of the event, with access to the event gallery.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining by a computing device, that a geolocation of the computing device corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

providing by the computing device, user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence;

detecting by the computing device, a selection of indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information;

displaying by the computing device, the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery, the gallery comprising a plurality of messages appearing with photographs as the background for each message;

providing by the computing device, a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery;

receiving, by the computing device, a generated message comprising a photograph as the background of the generated message; and

causing by the computing device, the generated message generated to be added to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information and wherein the generated message is accessible by other computing devices accessing the gallery information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is added to a selectable list of galleries accessible by a user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user can send a message to another user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein before the generated message is added to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information, the message is curated to delete inappropriate messages.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is provided based on the geolocation associated with the computing device.

6. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the computing device to perform operations comprising;

determining that a geolocation of the computing device corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

providing user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence;

detecting a selection of indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information;

displaying the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery, the gallery comprising a plurality of messages appearing with photographs as the background for each message;

providing a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery;

receiving a generated message comprising a photograph as the background of the generated message; and

causing the generated message generated to be added to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information and wherein the generated message is accessible by other computing devices accessing the gallery information.

7. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is added to a selectable list of galleries accessible by a user.

8. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the user can send a message to another user.

9. The computing device of claim 6 wherein before the generated message is added to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information, the message is curated to delete inappropriate messages.

10. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is provided based on the geolocation associated with the computing device.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions for causing a computing device to perform operations comprising:

determining that a geolocation of the computing device corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

providing user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence;

detecting a selection of indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information;

displaying the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery, the gallery comprising a plurality of messages appearing with photographs as the background for each message;

providing a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery;

receiving a generated message comprising a photograph as the background of the generated message; and

causing the generated message generated to be added to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information and wherein the generated message is accessible by other computing devices accessing the gallery information.