Selectively emphasizing digital content

• US 10,346,023 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2014
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Inventors: Underwood, IV, George Milton, Balakrishnan, Ramesh, Babenko, Boris, Lee, Christopher, Smith, Brian
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US14/248,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242404A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,918 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window

Abstract

One or more embodiments increase the visual appeal and organization of presenting digital content items. In particular, one or more embodiments improve the visual appeal of a presentation of digital content items by emphasizing one or more digital content items within the presentation of digital content items. For instance, one or more digital content items may be emphasized within a graphical user interface including a gallery of digital content items. The emphasized digital content items can be selected based on a score reflecting a particular characteristic of the digital content item and/or a metric of user interest in the digital content item. Digital content items with relatively high scores as compared to other digital content items may be emphasized when presented in conjunction with the other digital content items.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a plurality of digital content items for presentation in a grid within a graphical user interface displayed on a client device, the grid comprising grid spaces defined by intersecting rows and columns where a given grid space comprises a preview of a digital content item from the plurality of digital content items;

determining a score for each digital content item of the plurality of digital content items, wherein the score for a given digital content item corresponds to a predicted interest corresponding to the given digital content item;

identifying a viewable range of digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the viewable range of digital content items comprising a proper subset of consecutive digital content items from the plurality of digital content items defined by a number of digital content items currently displayed within the grid on a screen of the client device;

determining, from the viewable range of digital content items, a digital content item having a highest score within the viewable range of digital content items;

in response to determining the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items, emphasizing, by at least one processor and within the grid, a preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items relative to previews of one or more other digital content items within the grid, wherein emphasizing the preview of the digital content item comprises enlarging the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items to occupy an area of two or more grid spaces of the grid;

detecting, with respect to the graphical user interface of the client device, a scrolling input modifying a display of the viewable range of digital content items;

identifying a second viewable range of digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the second viewable range of digital content items comprising a second proper subset of consecutive digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the second proper subset of consecutive digital content items comprising at least one digital content item from the plurality of digital content items outside the viewable range of digital content items;

determining, from the second viewable range of digital content items, a second digital content item having a highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items; and

in response to determining the second digital content item having the highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items, emphasizing, by the at least one processor and within the grid, a preview of the second digital content item having the highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items relative to previews of one or more other digital content items within the grid.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items comprises comparing a score for the digital content item to one or more scores associated with other digital content items within the viewable range of digital content items without considering one or more digital content items from the plurality of digital content items outside the viewable range of digital content items not currently displayed within the grid on the screen of the client device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the score for each digital content item of the plurality of digital content items comprises analyzing visual characteristics of each digital content item to generate the score for each digital content item, and wherein analyzing visual characteristics of each digital content item comprises performing a facial detection analysis on each digital content item of the plurality of digital content items.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the score for each digital content item of the plurality of digital content items comprises:

analyzing each digital content item with multiple analysis techniques; and

combining results from the multiple analysis techniques to generate the score for each digital content item of the plurality of digital content items.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising generating a plurality of sub scores for each digital content item, wherein a given sub score represents a given factor associated with a given digital content item, and wherein at least one subscore of the plurality of subscores represents a presence of a face.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein at least one subscore of the plurality of subscores represents a presence of one or more facial features, the one or more facial features comprising at least one of eye contact or a smile.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein emphasizing the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items within the graphical user interface comprises cropping the preview of the digital content item to emphasize a particular portion of the digital content item.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein cropping the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items comprises cropping the preview to have a horizontal configuration or vertical configuration within the grid.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein emphasizing the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items within the graphical user interface comprises strategically positioning the preview of the digital content item relative to the one or more other previews of digital content items to draw a user'"'"'s attention to the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising emphasizing the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items without reordering the plurality of digital content items within the grid of digital content items.

11. A mobile device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the mobile device to;

identify a plurality of digital content items for presentation in a grid within a graphical user interface at the mobile device, the grid comprising grid spaces defined by intersecting rows and columns where a given grid space comprises a preview of a digital content item from the plurality of digital content items;

determining a score for each digital content item of the plurality of digital content items, wherein the score for a given digital content item corresponds to a predicted interest corresponding to the given digital content item;

identify a viewable range of digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the viewable range of digital content items comprising a proper subset of consecutive digital content items from the plurality of digital content items defined by a number of digital content items currently displayed within the grid on a screen of the mobile device;

determine, from the viewable range of digital content items, a digital content item having a highest score within the viewable range of digital content items;

in response to determining the digital content items having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items, emphasize, within the grid, a preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items relative to previews of one or more other digital content items within the grid, wherein emphasizing the preview of the digital content item comprises enlarging the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items to occupy an area of two or more grid spaces of the grid;

detect, with respect to the graphical user interface of the client device, a scrolling input modifying a display of the viewable range of digital content items;

identify a second viewable range of digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the second viewable range of digital content items comprising a second proper subset of consecutive digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the second proper subset of consecutive digital content items comprising at least one digital content item from the plurality of digital content items outside the viewable range of digital content items;

determine, from the second viewable range of digital content items, a second digital content item having a highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items; and

in response to determining the second digital content item having the highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items, emphasize, by the at least one processor and within the grid, a preview of the second digital content item having the highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items relative to previews of one or more other digital content items within the grid.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the grid comprises at least three rows of grid spaces intersecting three columns of grid spaces.

13. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein presenting the plurality of digital content items in the grid within the graphical user interface comprises providing a plurality of non-overlapping previews of the plurality of digital content items.

14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein emphasizing the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items comprises enlarging the preview of the digital content item without causing the emphasized preview to overlap any of the previews of the one or more other digital content items.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computer system to:

identify a plurality of digital content items for presentation in a grid within a graphical user interface displayed on a client device, the grid comprising grid spaces defined by intersecting rows and columns where a given grid space comprises a preview of a digital content item from the plurality of digital content items;

determine a score for each digital content item of the plurality of digital content items, wherein the score for a given digital content item corresponds to a predicted interest corresponding to the given digital content item;

identify a viewable range of digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the viewable range of digital content items comprising a proper subset of consecutive digital content items from the plurality of digital content items defined by a number of digital content items currently displayed within the grid on a screen of the client device;

determine, from the viewable range of digital content items, a digital content item having a highest score within the viewable range of digital content items;

in response to determining the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items, emphasize, within the grid, a preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items relative to previews of one or more other digital content items within the grid, wherein emphasizing the preview of the digital content item comprises enlarging the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items to occupy an area of two or more grid spaces of the grid;

detect, with respect to the graphical user interface of the client device, a scrolling input modifying a display of the viewable range of digital content items;

identify a second viewable range of digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the second viewable range of digital content items comprising a second proper subset of consecutive digital content items from the plurality of digital content items, the second proper subset of consecutive digital content items comprising at least one digital content item from the plurality of digital content items outside the viewable range of digital content items;

determine, from the second viewable range of digital content items, a second digital content item having a highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items; and

in response to determining the second digital content item having the highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items, emphasize by the at least one processor and within the grid, a preview of the second digital content item having the highest score within the second viewable range of digital content items relative to previews of one or more other digital content items within the grid.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein identifying the viewable range of digital content items from the plurality of digital content items comprises identifying a range corresponding to a number of viewable digital content items within a current view of the graphical user interface displayed on the client device.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein emphasizing the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items comprises enlarging the preview of the digital content item having the highest score within the viewable range of digital content items without enlarging previews of other digital content items within the viewable range of digital content items.