Aggregating electronic content items from different sources

• US 9,519,723 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2012
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Lorenz, Jon, Velo, Justin
• Primary Examiner(s): Badawi, Sherief
• Assistant Examiner(s): Raab, Christopher J
• Application Number:
  US13/621,925
• Publication Number:
  US 20140081974A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,547 Days
• Field of Search: 707/737
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for aggregating relevant electronic content items that are relevant to one another. In one embodiment, a content management application determines that a first electronic content item and a second electronic content item are relevant to one another. The first electronic content item is provided by a first client account and the second electronic content item is provided by a second client account. The content management application also aggregates the first and second electronic content items to form at least part of a collection of electronic content. The first and second electronic content items are aggregated based on determining that the first and second electronic content items are relevant to one another. The content management application also provides access to the collection of electronic content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a content management application, that a first electronic content item and a second electronic content item are relevant to one another, wherein the first electronic content item is provided by a first client account and the second electronic content item is provided by a second client account, wherein determining a relevance of the first electronic content item to the second electronic content item comprises;

determining that an attribute of the first electronic content item is shared by content in a collection of electronic content and that an attribute of the second electronic content item is shared by content in the collection of electronic content,

receiving input associated with the second client account and representing an interaction with the first electronic content item provided by the first client account, wherein the first electronic content item is included in a collection of electronic content,

selecting the second electronic content item for comparison with the first electronic content item based on receiving the input representing the interaction with the first electronic content item, and

determining, from first metadata of the first electronic content item and second metadata of the second electronic content item and based on selecting the second electronic content item, that a common geographic location and a common time period are depicted or described in both the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item;

aggregating, by the content management application, the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item to form at least part of the collection of electronic content based on determining that the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item are relevant to one another; and

providing, by the content management application, access to the collection of electronic content.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein determining that each of the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item is relevant to the collection of electronic content comprises determining that at least one additional electronic content item in the collection of electronic content is associated with the same geographic location as each of the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item are relevant to the collection of electronic content further comprises:

identifying a first period of time associated with the first electronic content item and a second period of time associated with the second electronic content item; and

determining that the first period of time and the second period of time are included in an additional period of time that is associated with the collection of electronic content and that includes the common time period.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the interaction comprises associating textual content comprising an identification of a first portion of the first electronic content item and wherein a second portion of the second electronic content item includes the same identification.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the interaction comprises a selection of a portion of the first electronic content item having content identical to at least one additional portion of the second electronic content item.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein aggregating the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item to form the at least part of the collection of electronic content comprises providing a virtual community comprising links to the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item, wherein the links are accessible via the collection of electronic content, wherein the virtual community is accessible via the first client account and the second client account.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first client account is associated with a first social media application that accesses the collection of electronic content and the second client account is associated with a second social media application that accesses the collection of electronic content, wherein the first social media application provides a first set of functions different from a second set of functions provided by the second social media application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the relevance of the first electronic content item and to the second electronic content item to one another further comprises determining that a common object or individual is depicted in both first image content of the first electronic content item and second image content of the second electronic content item.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that a portion of the first electronic content item that receives the interaction comprises first image content, wherein the interaction comprises selecting or zooming to the first image content; and

matching the first image content to second image content from the second electronic content item, wherein the relevance of the first electronic content item to the second electronic content item is also determined based on matching the first image content to the second image content.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the relevance of the first electronic content item to the second electronic content item is also determined based on a frequency with which clients interact at least one of the first electronic content item or the second electronic content item.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the frequency is determined by a number of tags associated with the at least one of the first or second electronic content items or a number of social media services via which the at least one of the first or second electronic content items is shared.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying program code executable by a processing device, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

program code for determining that a first electronic content item and a second electronic content item are relevant to one another, wherein the first electronic content item is provided by a first client account and the second electronic content item is provided by a second client account, wherein determining a relevance of the first electronic content item to the second electronic content item comprises;

determining that an attribute of the first electronic content item is shared by content in a collection of electronic content and that an attribute of the second electronic content item is shared by content in the collection of electronic content,

receiving input associated with the second client account and representing an interaction with the first electronic content item provided by the first client account, wherein the first electronic content item is included in a collection of electronic content,

selecting the second electronic content item for comparison with the first electronic content item based on receiving the input representing the interaction with the first electronic content item, and

determining, from first metadata of the first electronic content item and second metadata of the second electronic content item and based on selecting the second electronic content item, that a common geographic location and a common time period are depicted or described in both the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item;

program code for aggregating the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item to form at least part of the collection of electronic content based on determining that the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item are relevant to one another; and

program code for providing access to the collection of electronic content.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein determining that the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item are relevant to one another further comprises:

identifying the common geographic location associated with the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item; and

determining that at least one additional electronic content item in the collection of electronic content is associated with the common geographic location.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein determining that the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item are relevant to one another further comprises:

identifying a first period of time associated with the first electronic content item and a second period of time associated with the second electronic content item; and

determining that the first period of time and the second period of time are included in an additional period of time that is associated with the collection of electronic content and that includes the common time period.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein aggregating the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item with the collection of electronic content comprises providing a virtual community comprising links to the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item, wherein the links are accessible via the collection of electronic content, wherein the virtual community is accessible via the first client account and the second client account.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the first client account is associated with a first client application configured for accessing the collection of electronic content and the second client account is associated with a second client application configured for accessing the collection of electronic content, wherein the first client application provides a first set of functions different from a second set of functions provided by the second client application.

17. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively included in or communicatively coupled to the processor,

wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions stored in non-transitory computer-readable medium and thereby perform operations comprising;

determining that a first electronic content item and a second electronic content item are relevant to one another, wherein the first electronic content item is provided by a first client account and the second electronic content item is provided by a second client account, wherein determining a relevance of the first electronic content item to the second electronic content item comprises;

determining that an attribute of the first electronic content item is shared by content in a collection of electronic content and that an attribute of the second electronic content item is shared by content in the collection of electronic content,

receiving input associated with the second client account and representing an interaction with the first electronic content item provided by the first client account, wherein the first electronic content item is included in a collection of electronic content,

selecting the second electronic content item for comparison with the first electronic content item based on receiving the input representing the interaction with the first electronic content item, and

determining, from first metadata of the first electronic content item and second metadata of the second electronic content item and based on selecting the second electronic content item, that a common geographic location and a common time period are depicted or described in both the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item;

aggregating the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item to form at least part of the collection of electronic content based on determining that the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item are relevant to one another; and

providing access to the collection of electronic content.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein determining that the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item are relevant to one another further comprises:

determining that at least one additional electronic content item in the collection of electronic content is associated with the common geographic location;

identifying a first period of time associated with the first electronic content item and a second period of time associated with the second electronic content item; and

determining that the first period of time and the second period of time are included in an additional period of time that is associated with the collection of electronic content and that includes the common time period.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein aggregating the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item with the collection of electronic content comprises providing a virtual community comprising links to the first electronic content item and the second electronic content item, wherein the links are accessible via the collection of electronic content, wherein the virtual community is accessible via the first client account and the second client account.