Geo-location based event gallery

• US 10,200,813 B1
• Filed: 10/20/2016
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Allen, Nicholas Richard, Murphy, Robert Cornelius, Spiegel, Evan
• Primary Examiner(s): Sabouri, Mazda
• Application Number:
  US15/298,806
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0252 based on events or environment, e.g. weather or festivals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/418 Document matching, e.g. of document images
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/61 for local area broadcast, e.g. instore broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 : Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration

Abstract

A computer implemented method may include receiving geo-location data from a device of a user; comparing the geo-location data with a geo-location fence associated with an event; determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event; responsive to the determining that the geo-location data corresponds to the geo-location fence associated with the event, supplying user-selectable event gallery information, associated with an event gallery of the event, to the device for addition to a destination list on the device; detecting selection of the user-selectable event gallery information in the destination list by the user of the device; and/or responsive to the detecting of the selection of the user-selectable event gallery information by the user of the device, adding the user as a follower of the event, with access to the event gallery.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, a geolocation associated with a user operating the computing device;

sending, by the computing device, the geolocation to a server computer to determine that the geolocation associated with the user operating the computing device corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

receiving, by the computing device, user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence, from the server computer in response to the geolocation sent to the server computer;

providing, by the computing device, the user-selectable gallery information comprising the indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence to the user operating the computing device;

detecting, by the computing device, a selection of indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information, by the user of the computing device;

displaying, by the computing device, the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery, the gallery comprising a plurality of messages appearing with photographs as the background for each message;

providing, by the computing device, a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery;

receiving, by the computing device, a message generated by the user of the computing device, the message comprising a photograph as the background of the message; and

sending, by the computing device, the message generated by the user to the server computer, wherein the server computer adds the message generated by the user to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information and wherein the message generated by the user is accessible by other users accessing the gallery information to view the message comprising the photograph as the background of the message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is added to a selectable list of galleries accessible by the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user can send a message to another user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein before the message is added to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information, the message is curated to delete inappropriate messages.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is provided the user based on the geolocation associated with the user.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein after detecting the selection of the indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information by the user of the computing device, the method further comprises:

sending a registration request to the server computer to register the user for the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing an administrative interface to define an event and geolocation fence associated with an event for a gallery to be included in the user-selectable gallery information.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the gallery comprises displaying at least two messages of the plurality of messages with photographs as the background for each message.

6. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the computing device to perform operations comprising;

determining a geolocation associated with a user operating the computing device;

sending the geolocation to a server computer to determine that the geolocation associated with the user operating the computing device corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

receiving user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence, from the server computer in response to the geolocation sent to the server computer;

providing the user-selectable gallery information comprising the indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence to the user operating the computing device;

detecting a selection of indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information, by the user of the computing device;

displaying the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery, the gallery comprising a plurality of messages appearing with photographs as the background for each message;

providing a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery;

receiving a message generated by the user of the computing device, the message comprising a photograph as the background of the message; and

sending the message generated by the user to the server computer, wherein the server computer adds the message generated by the user to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information and wherein the message generated by the user is accessible by other users accessing the gallery information to view the message comprising the photograph as the background of the message.

7. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is added to a selectable list of galleries accessible by the user.

8. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the user can send a message to another user.

9. The computing device of claim 6, wherein before the message is added to the gallery associated with the selection of indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information, the message is curated to delete inappropriate messages.

10. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is provided the user based on the geolocation associated with the user.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions for causing a computing device to perform operations comprising:

determining a geolocation associated with a user operating the computing device;

sending the geolocation to a server computer to determine that the geolocation associated with the user operating the computing device corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

receiving user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence, from the server computer in response to the geolocation sent to the server computer;

providing the user-selectable gallery information comprising the indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence to the user operating the computing device;

detecting a selection of indicia for a gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information, by the user of the computing device;

displaying the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery, the gallery comprising a plurality of messages appearing with photographs as the background for each message;

providing a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery;

receiving a message generated by the user of the computing device, the message comprising a photograph as the background of the message; and

sending the message generated by the user to the server computer, wherein the server computer adds the message generated by the user to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the user-selectable gallery information and wherein the message generated by the user is accessible by other users accessing the gallery information to view the message comprising the photograph as the background of the message.

12. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server computer, geolocation data from a computing device associated with a user;

determining, by the server computer, that the geolocation data corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

providing, by the server computer, user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence, to the computing device in response to receiving the geolocation data from the computing device, wherein the user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence is provided to the user;

receiving, by the server computer, a message comprising a photograph as the background for the message, wherein the message was generated by the user via a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery; and

adding, by the server computer, the message generated by the user to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the of user-selectable gallery information;

wherein the message generated by the user is accessible by other users accessing the gallery information to view the message comprising the photograph as the background of the message.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is added to a selectable list of galleries accessible by the user.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein before the message is added to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the of the user-selectable gallery information, the message is curated to delete inappropriate messages.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the message is a first message, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a second message generated by the user; and

sending the message to an individual specified by the user.

16. A server computer comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the server computer to perform operations comprising;

receiving geolocation data from a computing device associated with a user;

determining that the geolocation data corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

providing user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence, to the computing device in response to receiving the geolocation data from the computing device, wherein the user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence is provided to the user;

receiving a message comprising a photograph as the background for the message, wherein the message was generated by the user via a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery; and

adding the message generated by the user to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the of user-selectable gallery information;

wherein the message generated by the user is accessible by other users accessing the gallery information to view the message comprising the photograph as the background of the message.

17. The server computer of claim 16, wherein the user-selectable gallery information is provided to the computing device based on the geolocation associated with the user.

18. The server computer of claim 16, wherein the message is a first message, and wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a second message generated by the user; and

sending the message to an individual specified by the user.

19. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions for causing a computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving geolocation data from a computing device associated with a user;

determining that the geolocation data corresponds to a geo-fence associated with a plurality of galleries;

providing user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence, to the computing device in response to receiving the geolocation data from the computing device, wherein the user-selectable gallery information comprising indicia for each of the plurality of galleries corresponding to the geo-fence is provided to the user;

receiving a message comprising a photograph as the background for the message, wherein the message was generated by the user via a user interface to generate a message with a photograph as the background in response to a message in the gallery; and

adding the message generated by the user to the gallery associated with the selection of the indicia for the gallery in the plurality of galleries of the of user-selectable gallery information;

wherein the message generated by the user is accessible by other users accessing the gallery information to view the message comprising the photograph as the background of the message.