DISPLAYING IMAGES INTERESTING TO A USER

• US 20120084731A1
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Jason Fergus, Filman, Sarah Michelle, Zhu, Jiamin, Kramer, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 9,588,992 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/838
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for displaying images in a user'"'"'s online page, such as to provide an engaging and interesting user experience. A subset of one or more images is identified from a set that comprises user accessible images. Images for the subset are identified selecting one or more images from the set of user accessible images that meet a desired user interest threshold. The subset of selected images is then loaded onto the user'"'"'s online page, such as an online service landing page, in an arrangement (e.g., slide show) of the images.

Claims

1. A computer-based method for displaying images in a user'"'"'s online page, comprising:

identifying a subset of one or more images from a set of user accessible images, the identifying comprising selecting one or more images from the set that meet a desired user interest threshold using a computer-based processor; and

loading an arrangement of the images in the subset to the user'"'"'s online page.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising identifying potential user interests from a plurality of online information associated with the user.

3. The method of claim 2, identifying potential user interests from a plurality of online information associated with the user comprising identifying information from one or more of:

the user'"'"'s online social network;

the user'"'"'s online activities;

the user'"'"'s identified personal interests;

the user'"'"'s preferences; and

the user'"'"'s online searches.

4. The method of claim 2, comprising ranking potential user interests based on an online connectivity level with the respective potential user interests.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising identifying metadata that comprises descriptive information for respective images in the set of user accessible images.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising identifying image tags from respective images in the set of user accessible images.

7. The method of claim 1, identifying a subset of one or more images comprising comparing metadata from images in the set of user accessible images with potential user interests.

8. The method of claim 7, comprising:

selecting a first subset of images, where one or more of;

the metadata associated with respective images in the first subset matches at least one potential user interest within a desired ranking range; and

the metadata associated with respective images in the first subset matches a desired number of potential user interests; and

the identifying a subset of one or more images from a set of user accessible images comprising selecting a second subset of images from the first subset, the identifying comprising selecting one or more images from the first subset that meet the desired user interest threshold.

9. The method of claim 8, selecting one or more images from the set that meet the desired user interest threshold comprising:

combining a potential user interest rank with a number of matched potential user interests for the metadata from respective images in the set; and

selecting a desired number of images from the set that meet the desired threshold for the combination of potential user interest rank with a number of matched potential user interests for the metadata.

10. The method of claim 1, selecting one or more images from the set that meet a desired user interest threshold comprising:

determining a user interest probability for respective images in the set; and

selecting merely those images that meet a desired user interest probability.

11. The method of claim 10, comprising determining the user interest probability for respective images in the set until a desired number of images are selected for the subset.

12. The method of claim 1, loading an arrangement of the images in the subset to the user'"'"'s online page comprising loading the arrangement upon the user'"'"'s online page loading to a browser.

13. The method of claim 1, loading an arrangement comprising loading a thumbnail view of one or more of the images in the subset to the user'"'"'s online page.

14. The method of claim 1, loading an arrangement comprising loading a primary image from the subset, where the primary image is larger than an initial display of other images from the subset and comprises one of:

an image from the subset having a highest level of user interest associated with the image; and

a randomly chosen image from the subset.

15. A system for displaying images in a user'"'"'s online page, comprising:

a processor configured to process data for the system;

an image identification component operably coupled with the processor and configured to select one or more images that meet a desired user interest threshold from user accessible images; and

an image loading component operably coupled with the image identification component and configured to load the selected images to the user'"'"'s online page in an arrangement.

16. The system of claim 15, comprising a user interest identification component configured to identify user interests from a plurality of online information associated with the user.

17. The system of claim 15, comprising a database component configured to index potential user interests from a plurality of online information associated with the user.

18. The system of claim 17, the image identification component configured to compare metadata from the user accessible images with the index of potential user interests in the database to identify a potentially interesting image.

19. The system of claim 15, the user accessible images comprising images from one or more of:

images stored locally by the user;

images stored remotely by the user;

images from social network connections;

a database of images accessible to the user; and

online images accessible to the user.

20. A computer-based method for displaying images in a user'"'"'s online page, comprising:

identifying potential user interests from a plurality of online information associated with the user, comprising identifying information from one or more of;

the user'"'"'s online social network;

the user'"'"'s online activities;

the user'"'"'s identified personal interests;

the user'"'"'s preferences; and

the user'"'"'s online searches

identifying metadata that comprises descriptive information for respective images in a set of user accessible images

identifying a subset of one or more images from the set of user accessible images, the identifying comprising;

comparing metadata from images in the set of user accessible images with the potential user interests;

selecting one or more images from the set that meet a desired user interest threshold using a computer-based processor comprising;

determining a user interest probability for respective images in the set;

selecting merely those images that meet a desired user interest probability; and

loading an arrangement of the images in the subset to the user'"'"'s online page, upon the user'"'"'s online page loading to a browser.