METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING SOCIAL NETWORK SITE PAGE BASED ON ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CONTENT

• US 20140033018A1
• Filed: 07/30/2012
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cimpress Schweiz GmbH (Cimpress Plc)
• Original Assignee: Vistaprint Technologies Limited (Cimpress Plc)
• Inventors: Pallai, Jeremy M., Connolly, Sean M., Fung, David Robert Chi-Wai, Zafar, Zain, Ramos, Alfredo
• Application Number:
  US13/562,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20140033018A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers

Abstract

Customized social media page generation methods and tools for automated generation and coordination of a social media page with existing user customized products.

Claims

1. A system for building social media pages, comprising:

a social media page building engine in first communication with a matching engine which identifies content assets associated with corresponding content assets in a customized electronic document representing a user'"'"'s customized product, the social media page building engine receiving the identification of the identified content assets and building a social media page for a social media service, the social media page incorporating at least some of the identified content assets.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a server configured to display on a display screen of a user'"'"'s computing device the social media page and at least one control which, when activated by the user, triggers an authentication process between the server and the social media service for authenticating the user to a user account at the social media service and loads the social media page into the user'"'"'s account.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the matching engine searches the customized electronic document to identify the customized electronic document content assets and to determine the associated content assets and to provide identification of the associated content assets to the social media page building engine for use in building the social media page.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the associated content assets comprise at least some content which is identical to the corresponding content assets.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the associated content assets comprise at least one accent image which aesthetically matches at least one image in the customized electronic document.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the identified content assets comprises at least some styling information.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the matching engine and the social media page building engine are operated by different parties.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the social media service is a 3^rd party provider different than the parties operating the matching engine and the social media page building engine.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the social media service is a 3^rd party provider different than the one or more parties operating the matching engine and the social media page building engine.

10. A method for generating a social networking site page at a remote social networking site, the method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, content from an existing electronic document;

automatically selecting, by one or more processors, at least some of the content from the existing electronic document;

authenticating, by one or more processors, a user to the social networking site;

automatically creating, by one or more processors, a page at the social networking site;

automatically, and without input from the user, provisioning the page with at least some of the selected content from the existing electronic document.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the provisioned content comprises a header.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining a header identifier from the existing electronic document, the header identifier associated with a header in the existing electronic document, the header characterized by a first set of dimensions and containing visual content; and

based on the header identifier, selecting a matching header from a database, the matching header characterized by a second set of dimensions that match dimensions of the header area of the social networking page, the matching header comprising at least some visual content that is identical to the visual content of the header from the existing electronic document; and

instructing the social networking site to insert the matching header into the header area of the social networking page.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the electronic document is an existing website.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the electronic document is an electronic document representing a product to be printed.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the product to be printed comprises one or more of the group comprising a business card, a postcard, a brochure, and a promotional item.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

presenting a graphical user interface to the user, the graphical user interface comprising user-interactive controls which allow the user to edit the created social networking page.