Content request by location

• US 9,801,018 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2016
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Zimerman, Gadi, Sadeh, Ido
• Primary Examiner(s): RAMPURIA, SHARAD K
• Application Number:
  US15/371,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20170086021A1
• Time in Patent Office: 321 Days
• Field of Search: 4554563, 4554143, 455 306
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• 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 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A method of obtaining media content of an event, comprising: identifying a real-life event and, a time of said real-life event a geographic location of the real-life event; identifying a subset of a plurality of client terminals of users located in proximity to the geographic location of the real-life event at said time of said real-life event; sending a message to the subset of client terminals containing a request to acquire media content documenting the real-life event; and receiving at least one media content item documenting the real-life event from at least one client terminal of the subset of client terminals, the at least one media content item acquired by at least one user of the users using the at least one client terminal in response to the message.

Claims

1. A method of obtaining media content of an event, comprising:

receiving from a client terminal over a network a message comprising an interest to receive a media content documenting a real-life event;

identifying a subset of a plurality of client terminals of a plurality of users, members of said subset are located in proximity to respective a geographic location of said real-life event at respective time of said first real-life event, said client terminal is not a member of said subset;

sending a message to each member of said subset of said plurality of client terminals containing instructions to present on a respective display on a request to acquire media content documenting said real-life event in said geographic location, said request comprising instructions defined by one of said plurality of users for imaging at least one of a specific location and a specific item in said real-life event; and

receiving at least one media content item sent using at least one member of said subset in response to said message, said at least one media content item is acquired using said at least one member of said subset and documents said real-life event in response to said message;

making said at least one media content item available for access by said client terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a second subset of said plurality of client terminals of users potentially interested in said real-life event; and

automatically providing said at least one media content item to said second subset of client terminals.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said providing includes sending a message with a reference to a web document containing said at least one media content item.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing said at least one media content item to at least one client terminal of said subset of client terminals of users potentially interested in said real-life event.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said providing includes sending a message with a reference to a web document containing said at least one media content item.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said location and said geographic location of said real-life event is identified using a search action held by searching at least one events source which is external to said client terminal.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said location and said geographic location of said real-life event are manually provided by a user entering event details into an event dataset.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a message with a reference to a web document containing said at least one media content item to at least some of said plurality of client terminals.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing said at least one media content item to at least one third party to be presented by said third party in relation to said real-life event.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying of said subset of client terminals comprises:

monitoring geographic locations of said plurality of client terminals; and

automatically identifying when at least one of said plurality of client terminals is located in proximity to said geographic location of said real-life event.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying of said subset of client terminals includes accessing at least one calendar stored in a memory of at least one of said plurality of client terminals.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying includes ranking of said subset of client terminals according to past media content items received from each of said plurality of client terminals.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said instructions includes at least one of text instructions to arrive at said geographic location and coordinates of said geographic location of said real-life event to be included in a map that indicates said geographic location;

wherein said of text instruction and said map are presented on a screen of each of said subset of client terminals.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said map includes multiple identified geographic locations of real-life events.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one media content item is received by a message with a reference to a web document containing said at least one media content item.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one media content item is aggregated with other media content items.

17. A system for obtaining media content of an event, comprising:

at least one network interface;

a memory storing a code; and

a processor coupled to the memory and the at least one network interface for executing the stored code, the code comprising;

code instructions for receiving from a client terminal over a network a message comprising an interest to receive a media content documenting a real-life event;

code instructions for identifying a subset of a plurality of client terminals of a plurality of users, members of said subset are located in proximity to respective a geographic location of said real-life event at respective time of said first real-life event, said client terminal is not a member of said subset;

code instructions for sending a message to each member of said subset of said plurality of client terminals containing instructions to present on a respective display on a request to acquire media content documenting said real-life event in said geographic location, said request comprising instructions defined by one of said plurality of users for imaging at least one of a specific location and a specific item in said real-life event;

code instructions for receiving at least one media content item sent using at least one member of said subset in response to said message, said at least one media content item is acquired using said at least one member of said subset and documents said real-life event in response to said message; and

code instructions for making said at least one media content item available for access by said client terminal.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

an event dataset for storing said real-life event, said time of said real-life event and said geographic location of said real-life event.

19. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

an aggregation module that aggregates said media content item with other media content items.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein said code further comprising code instructions which are executed by said at least processor for receiving event details from an event algorithm that analyzes information from at least one events source.