SLIDESHOW CREATOR

• US 20110231745A1
• Filed: 03/14/2011
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TripAdvisor LLC (TripAdvisor, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: TripAdvisor LLC (TripAdvisor, Inc.)
• Inventors: Boissinot, Rodney, Levesque, Luc, Lussier, Eric
• Application Number:
  US13/047,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20110231745A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location

Abstract

Technology for creating slideshows is described. In various embodiments, the technology receives from a first client computing device, a request to create a slideshow; receives from the first client computing device an indication of a location of two or more content elements; retrieves from the indicated location the two or more content elements; identifies geographical locations associated with each of the retrieved two or more content elements; creates a slideshow containing the retrieved two or more content elements and at least one transition; and transmits a pointer to the created slideshow.

Claims

1. A method performed by a computing device, comprising:

receiving at a server computing device, from a first client computing device, a request to create a slideshow;

receiving from the first client computing device an indication of a location of two or more content elements;

retrieving from the indicated location the two or more content elements;

identifying geographical locations associated with each of the retrieved two or more content elements;

creating a map visually identifying at least the geographical locations associated with each of the retrieved two or more content elements;

creating a slideshow containing the retrieved two or more content elements, the created map, and at least one transition; and

transmitting a pointer to the created slideshow.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving a request to provide the slideshow, wherein the request is received from a second client computing device that is not the first client computing device, and transmitting the created slideshow to the second client computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the content elements include at least a photograph or a video.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the location of the two or more content elements is at least one of:

a local storage at the first client computing device, a photo sharing website, or a social networking web site.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one transition includes a professionally created cinematic element.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the map includes a pushpin visual element for at least one geographical location associated with the retrieved content elements.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the geographical locations are specified by a user.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the geographical locations are identified from meta-data associated with the retrieved content elements.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically adding at least one music element to the created slideshow, wherein the music element is based on music from at least one of the geographical locations.

10. A computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising:

receiving at a server computing device, from a first client computing device, a request to create a slideshow;

receiving from the first client computing device an indication of a location of two or more content elements;

retrieving from the indicated location the two or more content elements;

identifying geographical locations associated with each of the retrieved two or more content elements;

creating a slideshow containing the retrieved two or more content elements and at least one transition; and

transmitting a pointer to the created slideshow.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10 further comprising enabling a user to edit the created slideshow based on providing a link to the slideshow, but without requiring the user to register.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10 further comprising:

identifying a friend of a user who submitted the request to create the slideshow, the friend identifiable at a social networking website;

retrieving a photograph of the friend from the social networking website;

and adding the retrieved photograph of the friend to the slideshow.

13. A system, comprising:

a processor and memory;

a component configured to receive from a first client computing device, a request to create a slideshow;

a component configured to receive from the first client computing device an indication of a location of two or more content elements;

a component configured to retrieve from the indicated location the two or more content elements;

a component configured to identify geographical locations associated with each of the retrieved two or more content elements;

a component configured to create a slideshow containing the retrieved two or more content elements and at least one transition; and

a component configured to transmit a pointer to the created slideshow.

14. The system of claim 13 further comprising a component configured to automatically add a music element to the created slideshow based at least on one of the identified geographical locations.

15. The system of claim 13 further comprising a component configured to create a navigational slider, wherein the slider indicates a sequence of geographical locations in such a manner that a viewer can slide a slider to a particular geographical location in the sequence of geographical locations and doing so causes display of content elements associated with the particular geographical location.