Methods and systems for generation, curation, and presentation of media collections

• US 10,679,389 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Issued: 06/09/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Allen, Nicholas Richard, Chang, Sheldon, Pavlovskaia, Maria, Shahnawaz, Amer, Yang, Jianchao
• Primary Examiner(s): Zuberi, Mohammed H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barnes, Jr., Carl E
• Application Number:
  US15/054,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20170263030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,565 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/00 Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism healthcare informatics G16H
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at a server computer, a plurality of content messages from a plurality of content sources, each content message comprising media content, for each of the plurality of content messages received, associating the media content with a predetermined media collection, and storing the content message in a database. The system and methods further providing for causing the plurality of content messages to be displayed on an operator device with other content messages associated with the media collection, determining that a predetermined trigger related to the media collection has been activated, updating an identifier of the media collection from a first indicator to a second indicator indicating an action needs to be taken on the media collection, and causing the updated identifier with the second indicator to be displayed on an operator device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server computer, a plurality of new content messages from a plurality of content sources, each of the plurality of new content messages comprising media content;

analyzing, by the server computer, the media content of each new content message received from the plurality of content sources to determine that a first subset of new content messages of the plurality of new content messages is associated with a first predetermined media collection of a plurality of predetermined media collections;

analyzing, by the server computer, the first subset of new content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection to generate a second subset of the first subset of new content messages by filtering out content messages of the first subset of new content messages that comprise low quality media content, wherein factors to determine low quality media content include at least one of a group comprising underexposure, overexposure, audio quality, and compression quality;

adding, by the server computer, the second subset of new content messages to previously received content messages to be considered for inclusion in the first predetermined media collection;

determining, by the server computer, that a predetermined amount of time has passed since any content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users;

based on determining that the predetermined amount of time has passed since any content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users, updating, by the server computer, an identifier of the first predetermined media collection from a first indicator to a second indicator indicating an action to be taken on the first predetermined media collection to curate the media collection before presentation to one or more users;

providing, by the server computer, a media collection list assigned to a first curator to be displayed on a curator device, the media collection list comprising a plurality of media collections that includes the first predetermined media collection and the media collection list including, for each media collection in the media collection list, a corresponding curator list indicating one or more curators assigned to each media collection;

causing a timeline to be displayed on the curator device showing a curation progress of each of a plurality of curators that are curating the content messages in the first media collection before presentation to one or more users, the curation progress indicating an assigned portion of content messages that are assigned to each curator, how many content messages of the assigned portion have been viewed by each curator, and how many content messages of the assigned portion of content messages have not been viewed by each curator, and an indication, corresponding to each curator, of published content messages in the first media collection that have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users;

receiving a selection of a first curator in a list of curators for the first media collection; and

causing display of a list of media collections assigned to the first curator and metrics corresponding to the first curator, the metric comprises at least one of an average time to clear a predefined number of content messages, an average number of flagged content messages, a ratio of flagged to approved content messages, an average time an approved content messages is in a queue before it is flagged, or an average time an approved content message is in an queue before it is activated.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predetermined media collection is associated with a geolocation, event, topic, or common user interest.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predetermined media collection comprises media content from a plurality of individual users.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier of the first media collection includes at least one of a group comprising:

a subject for the media collection, a number of content messages pending review for the media collection, a time the media collection was last viewed by a curator, a color associated with the first indication, and a color associated with the second indication.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the curator device, a selection of a subset of the content messages for the first predetermined media collection to be included in the first predetermined media collection that will be available to be viewed by one or more users; and

including the selection of the subset of the content messages in the first predetermined media collection, wherein the content messages not in the selection of the subset of the content messages are not available to be viewed by one or more users; and

updating the identifier of the first predetermined media collection from the second indicator to the first indicator indicating that the first predetermined media collection does not require immediate attention, based on the selection of the subset of the content messages for the first predetermined media collection received from the curator device.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a request from a client device for the first predetermined media collection; and

providing the first predetermined media collection in response to the request, wherein the first predetermined media collection is displayed on the client device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the predetermined trigger related to the first predetermined media collection has been activated is further based on a predetermined number of content messages that have not been viewed on the operator device and a predetermined amount of time that has passed since the content messages associated with the media collection have been viewed on the curator device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the content messages that comprise low quality media content are filtered out based on a quality score associated with each of the media content of the content messages.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the first subset of new media content messages of the plurality of new content messages is associated with a first predetermined media collection of the plurality of predetermined media collections is based on an indication included in the content message.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the first subset of new content messages of the plurality of new content messages is associated with the first predetermined media collection based on the media content of each of the first subset of new content messages is based on at least one of text recognition, object recognition, and an audio footprint.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of an identifier of a second predetermined media collection to be curated before presentation to one or more users;

causing display on a graphical user interface of media content associated with the second predetermined media collection to allow curation of the second media collection before presentation to the one or more users.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection to turn off the first media collection; and

turning off the first media collection so that the first media collection is not available to be viewed by the one or more users.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the content messages that comprise low quality media content are filtered out based on a threshold percentage received from the curator device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined trigger is determined activated based on determining that the predetermined amount of time has passed since any content messages associated with the media collection have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

causing the second subset of the of the first subset of new content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection to be displayed on a graphical user interface of the curator device with previously received content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection, to allow curation of the first media collection before presentation to one or more users.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of an ad to add to the first predetermined media collection; and

adding the ad to the first predetermined media collection.

17. A server computer comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable medium coupled with the processor, the computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising;

receiving a plurality of new content messages from a plurality of content sources, each of the plurality of new content message comprising media content;

analyzing the media content of each new content message received from the plurality of content sources to determine that a first subset of new content messages of the plurality of new content messages is associated with a first predetermined media collection of a plurality of predetermined media collections;

analyzing the first subset of new content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection to generate a second subset of the first subset of new content messages by filtering out content messages of the first subset of new content messages that comprise low quality media content, wherein factors to determine low quality media content include at least one of a group comprising underexposure, overexposure, audio quality, and compression quality;

adding the second subset of new content messages to previously received content messages to be considered for inclusion in the first predetermined media collection;

determining that a predetermined amount of time has passed since any content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users;

based on determining that the predetermined amount of time has passed since any content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users, updating an identifier of the first predetermined media collection from a first indicator to a second indicator indicating an action to be taken on the first predetermined media collection to curate the media collection before presentation to one or more users;

providing a media collection list assigned to a first curator to be displayed on a curator device, the media collection list comprising a plurality of media collections that includes the first predetermined media collection and the media collection list including, for each media collection in the media collection list, a corresponding curator list indicating one or more curators assigned to each media collection;

causing a timeline to be displayed on the curator device showing a curation progress of each of a plurality of curators that are curating the content messages in the first media collection before presentation to one or more users, the curation progress indicating an assigned portion of content messages that are assigned to each curator, how many content messages of the assigned portion have been viewed by each curator, and how many content messages of the assigned portion of content messages have not been viewed by each curator, and an indication, corresponding to each curator, of published content messages in the first media collection that have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users;

receiving a selection of a first curator in a list of curators for the first media collection; and

causing display of a list of media collections assigned to the first curator and metrics corresponding to the first curator, the metric comprises at least one of an average time to clear a predefined number of content messages, an average number of flagged content messages, a ratio of flagged to approved content messages, an average time an approved content messages is in a queue before it is flagged, or an average time an approved content message is in an queue before it is activated.

18. The server computer of claim 17, wherein the first media collection comprises media content from a plurality of individual users.

19. The server computer of claim 17, the operations further comprising:

receiving, from the curator device, a selection of content messages to be included in the first media collection;

including the selection of content messages in the first media collection;

receiving a request from a client device for the first media collection; and

providing the first media collection in response to the request, wherein the first media collection is displayed on the client device.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by at least one processor to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a plurality of new content messages from a plurality of content sources, each of the plurality of new content message comprising media content;

analyzing the media content of each new content message received from the plurality of content sources to determine that a first subset of new content messages of the plurality of new content messages is associated with a first predetermined media collection of a plurality of predetermined media collections;

analyzing the first subset of new content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection to generate a second subset of the first subset of new content messages by filtering out content messages of the first subset of new content messages that comprise low quality media content, wherein factors to determine low quality media content include at least one of a group comprising underexposure, overexposure, audio quality, and compression quality;

adding the second subset of new content messages to previously received content messages to be considered for inclusion in the first predetermined media collection;

determining that a predetermined amount of time has passed since any content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users;

based on determining that the predetermined amount of time has passed since any content messages associated with the first predetermined media collection have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users, updating an identifier of the first predetermined media collection from a first indicator to a second indicator indicating an action to be taken on the first predetermined media collection to curate the media collection before presentation to one or more users;

providing a media collection list assigned to a first curator to be displayed on a curator device, the media collection list comprising a plurality of media collections that includes the first predetermined media collection and the media collection list including, for each media collection in the media collection list, a corresponding curator list indicating one or more curators assigned to each media collection;

causing a timeline to be displayed on the curator device showing a curation progress of each of a plurality of curators that are curating the content messages in the first media collection before presentation to one or more users, the curation progress indicating an assigned portion of content messages that are assigned to each curator, how many content messages of the assigned portion have been viewed by each curator, and how many content messages of the assigned portion of content messages have not been viewed by each curator, and an indication, corresponding to each curator, of published content messages in the first media collection that have been pushed live to be viewed by one or more users;

receiving a selection of a first curator in a list of curators for the first media collection; and

causing display of a list of media collections assigned to the first curator and metrics corresponding to the first curator, the metric comprises at least one of an average time to clear a predefined number of content messages, an average number of flagged content messages, a ratio of flagged to approved content messages, an average time an approved content messages is in a queue before it is flagged, or an average time an approved content message is in an queue before it is activated.