Theme-based media content generation system and method

• US 9,460,057 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Filmstrip, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Filmstrip, Inc.
• Inventors: Grossman, Andrew, Krutsch, Kenneth F., Monson-Haefel, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vaughn, Gregory J
• Application Number:
  US13/834,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20140281929A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/201, 715/202, 715/203, 715/204, 715/243, 715/253, 715/273, 715/255
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/189 Automatic justification
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25816 involving client authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A computerized system and method are presented that creates implicit content on a mobile device by monitoring and recording input from sensors on the device. Using the metadata and event identification, the content is created into clusters, which can be confirmed by the user as actual events. Events can then be grouped according to metadata and event information into a presentation grouping. Presentation groupings can be presented using a map and timeline interface, and can be augmented using content from external sources, other users, or viewers of the content. Themes can be created for presentation groupings that format the presentation groupings according to stored formatting appropriate to the theme. Themes can suggest theme events to which users can assign places and times. Information about future theme events can then be used to trigger a request for content or to trigger the creation of implicit content.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

a) a processor that is controlled via programming instructions;

b) a non-transitory computer readable memory;

c) database programming stored on the non-transitory computer readable memory and performed by the processor, the database programming managing a content database that is transformed during operation by the database programming, the content database having;

i) a plurality of media content database entities containing media content,

ii) a theme database entity identifying a theme,

iii) a plurality of theme event database entities each identifying a theme event for the theme, with each theme event database entity event being associated with the theme database entity;

iv) a plurality of content suggestion database entities each identifying a content suggestion for one theme event, with each content suggestion database entity being associated with a single theme event database entity;

v) a plurality of formatting instructions for displaying data through a user interface, the formatting instructions being applicable to at least one content suggestion database entity associated with the theme database entity;

d) content presentation programming stored on the memory and performed by the processor, the content presentation programming causing the processor to;

i) identify a first media content as relating to a first content suggestion;

ii) associating in the database a first media content database entity identifying the first media content with a first content suggestion database entity identifying the first content suggestion;

iii) identifying a first formatting instruction applicable to the first content suggestion database entity;

iv) applying the first formatting instruction to the first media content and displaying the formatted first media content via a user interface.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the first formatting instruction controls a presentation order for theme events associated with the theme.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the first formatting instruction is chosen from a set of formatting instructions consisting of:

i) stock photography instructions that cause a predetermined photograph to be presented on the user interface along with the first media content,

ii) audio instructions that cause particular audio to be presented on the user interface along with the first media content, and

iii) filtering instructions that cause a visual filter to be applied to the first media content before presentation on the user interface.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the content presentation programming identifies the first media content as relating to the first content suggestion by accepting user input through the user interface identifying the relationship.

5. The computing device of claim 4, wherein the user identifies future media content as relating to the first content suggestion, and further wherein the first media content is created after the user identification.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the content presentation programming identifies the first media content as relating to the first content suggestion by:

(1) identifying a trigger event based on the data within the first content suggestion database entity;

(2) assigning content created after the trigger event as being related to the first content suggestion.

7. The computing device of claim 6, wherein information about the trigger event is downloaded from the computing device to a separate mobile device, and further wherein the separate mobile device identifies the trigger event, creates the content assigned after the trigger event, and assigns the content created after the trigger event as being related to the first content suggestion.

8. The computing device of claim 7, wherein a confirmation user interface allows a user to confirm the assignment of the first media content being related to the first content suggestion.

9. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the confirmation user interface is presented on the mobile device that created the content.

10. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the user interface presents a plurality of theme events associated with a selected theme, and further wherein the user interface allows a user to select a subset of relevant theme events associated with the selected theme.

11. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the user interface allows a user to input a future time and place for the each theme event in the subset of relevant theme events, and further wherein the trigger event is based on the user input for a first relevant theme event associated in the database with the first content suggestion.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the trigger event is based on a trigger time directly calculated from the time input by the user for the first relevant theme event.

13. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the trigger event is based on a geo-fence directly determined from the place input by the user for the first relevant theme event.

14. A method comprising:

a) on a server computer having a programmable processor, establishing a structured database defining a theme, the theme being associated with a plurality of theme events, and at least one theme event being associated with a plurality of content suggestions;

b) at the server computer, storing formatting instructions defining content formatting for the content suggestions;

c) at a mobile device, downloading the plurality of content suggestions from the server computer;

d) the mobile device, creating content;

e) at the mobile device, identifying the content as being associated with a first content suggestion;

f) uploading from the mobile device to the server computer the content and the association with the first content suggestion; and

g) at the server computer, presenting over a user interface the content as formatted by content formatting defined for the first content suggestion.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile device provides notification through a mobile device user interface notifying a user to obtain content for the first content suggestion.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the content suggestions are associated with a theme event selected by a user over a theme selection user interface.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the user first selects the theme over the theme selection user interface, and then selects multiple theme events from the plurality of theme events associated with the theme, wherein the plurality of content suggestions are associated in the structured database with the multiple theme events.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the user inputs time and place information about a first relevant theme event associated with the first content suggestion.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the user receives a prompt on the mobile device to obtain the content associated with the first content suggestion, and wherein the prompt is triggered based on the information input by the user about the first relevant theme event.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the mobile device identifies the content as being associated with the first content suggestion by identifying that the content was created within a preset time period after the prompt on the mobile device.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the mobile device records implicit content as the content after a trigger event, wherein the trigger event is based on the information input by the user about the first relevant theme event.

22. A computing device comprising:

a) a processor that is controlled via programming instructions;

b) a non-transitory computer readable memory;

c) database programming stored on the non-transitory computer readable memory and performed by the processor, the database programming managing a content database that is transformed during operation by the database programming, the content database having;

i) a plurality of theme database entities identifying a plurality of themes,

ii) a plurality of theme event database entities each identifying a theme event, with each theme event database entity event being associated with one theme database entity;

iii) a plurality of content suggestion database entities each identifying a content suggestion for one theme event, with each content suggestion database entity being associated with a single theme event database entity;

d) theme selection programming stored on the memory and performed by the processor, the theme selection presentation programming causing the processor to create a theme selection interface and to;

i) present, through the theme selection interface, the plurality of themes;

ii) receive, through the theme selection interface, a theme selection of a first theme identified by a first theme database entity;

iii) present, through the theme selection interface, a first set of theme events, the first set of theme events being identified by theme event database entities associated with the first theme database entity;

iv) receive, through the theme selection interface, theme event selections identifying relevant subset of the first set of theme events;

v) receive, through the theme selection interface, a location input and a time input for a first theme event in the relevant subset of theme events, the first theme event being identified by a first theme event database entity;

vi) identify a first content suggestion identified in a first content suggestion database entity associated with the first theme event database entity;

vii) use the input for the first theme event to identify a trigger event for input of content for the first content suggestion.

23. The computing device of claim 22, wherein the trigger event is a trigger for the creation of implicit content.

24. The computing device of claim 22, wherein the trigger event is a trigger for presenting a notification on a mobile device interface requesting the creation of explicit content.