Content feed user interface with gallery display of same-type items

• US 8,949,154 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2005
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Wetherell, Christopher Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): KIM, STEVEN S
• Application Number:
  US11/246,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20070083468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,406 Days
• Field of Search: 705/51
• US Class Current: 705/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/358 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1396 specially adapted for monitoring users' activity

Abstract

Additional content items that satisfy predefined criteria with respect to a user-selected content item are identified. The predefined criteria may be that the selected and additional content items have particular characteristics that are the same. Information corresponding to the selected and identified content items is presented to a user. Characteristics based on which additional content items may be identified may include data type, source, and absence of content. The information may be presented in a gallery view, which can be a thumbnails gallery for images or a playlist for digital audio or video.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of presenting content, comprising:

receiving, by a client system distinct from a server system, a plurality of feed content items from the server system;

presenting, by the client system, a list of feed content items received from the server system, including displaying identifying information associated with at least a subset of the feed content items in the list at a given time;

in response to user selection of a respective feed content item in the list of feed content items, identifying, by the client system, one or more additional feed content items in the list of feed content items, the one or more additional feed content items having a same content type as the selected feed content item; and

presenting, by the client system, previews of the selected and additional feed content items.

2. A computer-implemented method of presenting content, comprising:

receiving, by a client system distinct from a server system, a plurality of content items from the server system;

presenting, by the client system, a list of content items received from the server system, including displaying identifying information associated with at least a subset of the content items in the list at a given time;

in response to user selection of a respective content item in the list of content items, identifying, by the client system, one or more additional content items in the list of content items, the one or more additional content items satisfying predefined criteria with respect to the selected content item; and

presenting, by the client system, previews of the selected and additional content items.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein identifying the additional content items comprises identifying additional content items in the list of content items having a same content type as the selected content item.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the same content type comprises an image content type;

and

presenting the previews of the selected and additional content items comprises presenting thumbnail images of the selected and additional content items.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the same content type comprises one of the group consisting of:

an audio content type and a video data type; and

presenting the previews of the selected and additional content items comprises presenting a playlist of the selected and additional content items.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein

presenting the list of content items comprises presenting an interleaved list of content items from multiple sources;

and

identifying the additional content items comprises identifying additional content items in the list of content items having a same source as the selected content item.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein identifying the additional content items comprises identifying additional content items in the list of content items having a same content type and a same source as the selected content item.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the list of content items comprises feed content items.

9. A system for presenting content, comprising:

memory;

one or more processors; and

instructions, stored in the memory and configured for execution by the one or more processors, that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system;

to present a list of content items received from an external server system, including instructions to display identifying information associated with at least a subset of the content items in the list at a given time;

in response to user selection of a content item in the list of content items, to identify one or more additional content items in the list of content items, the one or more additional content items satisfying predefined criteria with respect to the selected content item; and

to present previews of the selected and additional content items.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the list of content items comprises feed content items.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which when executed by a client computer system distinct from a server system, cause the client computer system to:

present a list of content items received from the server system, including displaying identifying information associated with at least a subset of the content items in the list at a given time;

in response to user selection of a respective content item in the list of content items, identify one or more additional content items in the list of content items, the one or more additional content items satisfying predefined criteria with respect to the selected content item; and

present previews of the selected and additional content items.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions for identifying the additional content items comprise instructions for identifying additional content items in the list of content items having a same content type as the selected content item.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12 wherein the same content type comprises an image content type;

and

the instructions for presenting the previews of the selected and additional content items comprise instructions for presenting thumbnail images of the selected and additional content items.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the same content type comprises one of the group consisting of:

an audio content type and a video data type; and

the instructions for presenting the previews of the selected and additional content items comprise instructions for presenting a playlist of the selected and additional content items.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein:

the instructions for presenting the list of content items comprise instructions for presenting an interleaved list of content items from multiple sources;

the instructions for identifying the additional content items comprise instructions for identifying additional content items in the list of content items having a same source as the selected content item.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions for identifying the additional content items comprise instructions for identifying additional content items in the list of content items having a same content type and a same source as the selected content item.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the list of content items comprises content items from one or more feed sources.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which when executed by a client computer system distinct from a server system, cause the client computer system to:

present a list of feed content items received from the server system, including displaying identifying information associated with at least a subset of the feed content items in the list at a given time;

in response to user selection of a respective feed content item in the list of feed content items, identify one or more additional feed content items in the list of feed content items, the one or more additional feed content items having a same content type as the selected feed content item; and

present previews of the selected and additional feed content items.