METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION, CURATION, AND PRESENTATION OF MEDIA COLLECTIONS

• US 20170263030A1
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Published: 09/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snapchat Inc (Snap, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Snapchat Inc (Snap, Inc.)
• Inventors: Allen, Nicholas Richard, Chang, Sheldon, Pavlovskaia, Maria, Shahnawaz, Amer, Yang, Jianchao
• Granted Patent: US 10,679,389 B2
• Time in Patent Office: 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 new content message comprising media content;

for each of the plurality of new content messages received;

associating the media content with a predetermined media collection; and

storing the content message associated with the predetermined media collection in a database;

analyzing the plurality of new content messages associated with the predetermined media collection to determine a subset the plurality of new content messages comprising high quality media content by filtering out 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, noise level, blurry media content, audio quality, and compression quality;

causing the subset of the plurality of new content messages associated with the predetermined media, collection comprising the high quality media content to be displayed on an operator device with previously received content messages associated with the predetermined 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 to curate the media collection for presentation to one or more users; and

causing the updated identifier with the second indicator to be displayed on an operator device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the media content comprises at least one of a group comprising:

a photograph, a video, and audio.

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

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

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

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

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the operator device, a selection of content messages to be included in the collection; and

including the selection of content messages in the media collection.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

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

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

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger includes a predetermined amount time that has passed since the media content associated with the media collection has been viewed on the operator device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger includes a predetermined number content messages that have not been viewed on the operator device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger includes a predetermined amount of time that has passed since any media content associated with the media collection has been pushed live to be viewed by users.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the new 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 new content messages.

22. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the media content of each of the plurality of new content messages received is associated with one or more predetermined media collections of a plurality of media collections, based on an indication included in the content message or content in the content message.

2. (canceled)

15. The server computer of claim 2, the operations further comprising:

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

including the selection of content messages in the media collection;

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

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

12. 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 content message comprising media content;

for each of the plurality of new content messages received;

associating the media content with a predetermined media collection; and

storing the content message associated with the predetermined media collection in a database;

analyzing the plurality of new content messages associated with the predetermined media collection to determine a subset the plurality of new content messages comprising high quality media content by filtering out 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, noise level, blurry media content, audio quality, and compression quality;

causing the subset of the plurality of new content messages associated with the predetermined media collection comprising the high quality media content to be displayed on an operator device with previously received content messages associated with the predetermined 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 to curate the media collection for presentation to one or more users; and

causing the updated identifier h second indicator to be displayed on an operator device.

13. The server computer of claim 12, wherein the predetermined collection is associated with a geolocation, event, topic, or common user interest.

14. The server computer of claim 12, wherein the media collection comprises media content from a plurality of individual users.

17. The server computer of claim 12, wherein the trigger includes a predetermined amount of time that has passed since the media content associated with the media collection has been viewed on the operator device.

18. The server computer of claim 12, wherein the trigger includes a predetermined number of content messages that have not been viewed on the operator device.

19. The server computer of claim 12, wherein the trigger includes a predetermined amount of time that has passed since any media content associated with the media collection has been pushed live to be viewed by users.

16. (canceled)

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 content message comprising media content;

for each of the plurality of new content messages received;

associating the media content with a predetermined media collection; and

storing the content message associated with the predetermined media collection in a database;

analyzing the plurality of new content messages associated with the predetermined media collection to determine a subset the plurality of new content messages comprising high quality media content by filtering out 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, noise level, blurry media content, audio quality, and compression quality;

causing the subset of the plurality of new content messages associated with the predetermined media, collection comprising the high quality media content to be displayed on an operator device with previously received content messages associated with the predetermined 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 to curate the media collection for presentation to one or more users; and

causing the updated identifier with the second indicator to be displayed on an operator device.