Systems and Methods for Collection-Based Multimedia Data Packaging and Display

• US 20150213001A1
• Filed: 08/20/2013
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Avast Software SRO (Gen Digital Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Avast Software SRO (Gen Digital Inc.)
• Inventors: Levy, Ron, Ashkenazi, Aviad
• Application Number:
  US14/422,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20150213001A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/438 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/32 Image data format
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

Systems and methods for creating an all-in-one experience by combining media (photos, videos, etc.), content (text, external feeds) and meta-data (tagged friends, location) into one interactive canvas in an automatic manner. An application of the invention can run on any user device: mobile device, personal computer, tablet, laptop, game console, or television. The system can scan user data, filter unwanted content, package it into coherent multimedia collections and display them on any user device.

Claims

1. A computerized, multimedia, collection-based presentation system comprising a processor and memory, comprising:

(i) a data identifier module for scanning multimedia data items on one or more devices and arranging said multimedia data in a database by collections based on predetermined collection-related parameters;

(ii) a data packager module for packaging together all multimedia data items relevant to a collection; and

(iii) a display module for displaying said multimedia data items relevant to a collection according to a predetermined presentation template.

2. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said multimedia data items comprise, images, video clips, sound clips, text, maps or advertisements.

3. The presentation system according to claim 1, further comprising a data filtering module for removing multimedia data items that are deemed unnecessary;

4. The presentation system according to claim 3, wherein said data filtering module removes blurry images, duplicate images, too dark or too bright images, very short videos, very long videos, shaky videos, content deemed private, inappropriate or intimate, or multimedia data deemed of low quality.

5. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said collection-related parameters comprise:

location where said multimedia data was captured, time when said multimedia data was captured, orientation, pattern of media capturing, tagged friends, user profile data, participant data, predetermined collections determined by the system.

6. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said presentation template comprises a plurality of tiles, each tile displaying a multimedia data item.

7. The presentation system according to claim 6, wherein the display module is configured to display on each tile a multimedia data item for a given period of time after which another multimedia data item from the same collection is displayed on said tile.

8. The presentation system according to claim 6, wherein each tile can also display an advertisement, a map, the date, a time, user profile data or a sound clip.

9. The presentation system according to claim 6, wherein the display module is coupled to a user interface configured for changing the content of a tile following a user action.

10. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein the display module displays a multimedia data item of the relevant multimedia data in a tile based on analytical or statistical data regarding which presentation template gained the most interaction from a user.

11. The presentation system according to claim 10, wherein said interaction is measured when a user clicks on the tile, views the content of the tile, moves the tile, changes the position of the tile, selects the tile or performs any other action specific to said tile.

12. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said display module is further configured for automatically deriving a collection title of a particular packaged multimedia data item by analyzing user related data on a device or external sources or both.

13. The presentation system according to claim 12, wherein said external sources are social networks, external databases or any other available data.

14. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said data identifier module is further configured for accessing and retrieving multimedia data items from external sources.

15. The presentation system according to claim 1, further comprising a data sharing module configured to sharing multimedia data items relevant to a collection with other users.

16. The presentation system according to claim 15, wherein said data sharing module is configured for sharing multimedia data items via email, Short Messages (SMS), Multimedia Messages (MMS) or social networks.

17. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein any or all of the functionalities of the data identifier module, data filtering module, data packaging module or data display module reside on a server connected to an application on a user device.

18. The presentation system according to claim 17, wherein said user device is a mobile phone, a tablet, a personal computer, a laptop, a game console, a TV set-top box or any other mobile device.

19. The presentation system according to claim 17, wherein said user device is a networked storage location.

20. The presentation system according to claim 1, further comprising a cloud synchronization module adapted for storing multimedia data collections in the cloud such that the display module can access said multimedia data collections from any device that is connected to the cloud. (Original) A computerized, multimedia, collection-based presentation system comprising a processor and memory, comprising:

(i) a data identifier module for scanning multimedia data items by the processor on one or more devices and arranging said multimedia data in a database by collections based on predetermined collection-related parameters;

(ii) a data filtering module for removing by the processor multimedia data items that are deemed unnecessary; and

(iii) a data packager module for packaging together by the processor all multimedia data items relevant to a collection such that all said multimedia data can be viewed together.

21. The presentation system according to claim 21, further comprising a cloud synchronization module adapted for storing multimedia data collections in the cloud such that the display module can access said multimedia data collections from any device that is connected to the cloud.

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27. A computerized, multimedia, collection-based presentation method comprising a processor and memory, comprising the steps of:

(i) scanning multimedia data items on one or more devices and arranging said multimedia data items in a database by collections based on predetermined collection-related parameters, said scanning performed by a processor on multimedia data in memory;

(ii) removing multimedia data items that is deemed unnecessary, said removing performed by a processor on multimedia data in memory, said removing performed by a processor;

(iii) packaging together all multimedia data items relevant to a collection, said packaging performed by a processor on multimedia data in memory; and

(iv) displaying said multimedia data items relevant to a collection according to a predetermined presentation template, said displaying performed by a processor on multimedia data in memory.

28. The presentation method according to claim 27, further comprising the step of cloud synchronization for storing multimedia data collections in the cloud and displaying and accessing said multimedia data collections from any device that is connected to the cloud.