PHOTO ALBUM CREATION BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT

• US 20130339435A1
• Filed: 06/19/2012
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: De Armas, Mario Ernesto
• Granted Patent: US 9,626,381 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A method of creating a physical representation of digital information located on a social networking environment comprises retrieving a number of digital images from the social networking environment, retrieving data associated with the digital images, and creating a physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images, in which the data associated with the digital images comprises information about the subject matter of the digital images.

Claims

1. A method of creating a physical representation of digital information located on a social networking environment comprising:

retrieving a number of digital images from the social networking environment;

retrieving data associated with the digital images; and

creating a physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images,

in which the data associated with the digital images comprises information about the subject matter of the digital images.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising inviting a number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising inviting a number of users to contribute the digital images on the social networking environment.

4. The method of claim 2, in which inviting a number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment comprises inviting a number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment associated with an event.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising customizing a number of parameters of the physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images.

6. The method of claim 5, in which customizing a number of parameters of the physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images comprises customizing the layout of the physical representation of the data associated with the digital images with respect to the physical representation of the digital images, specifying which data associated with the digital images is physically represented, or combinations thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising charging a user for retrieving a number of digital images from the social networking environment, retrieving data associated with the digital images, or creating a physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images.

8. The method of claim 1, in which the data associated with the digital images comprises a number of comments, a number of tags of objects or people within the digital images, a number of captions, a number of descriptions of the digital images, the subject of the digital images, or combinations thereof.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising editing the data associated with the digital images.

10. The method of claim 1, in which the method is performed without altering the digital information located on the social networking environment.

11. A method of creating a photo album, comprising:

retrieving data associated with a number of digital images digital images located on a social networking environment;

editing the data associated with the digital images; and

creating a photo album comprising the digital images and data associated with the digital images.

12. The method of claim 11, in which the data associated with the digital images comprises information about the subject matter of the digital images.

13. The method of claim 11, in which the data associated with the digital images comprises a number of comments, a number of tags of objects or people within the digital images, a number of captions, a number of descriptions of the digital images, the subject of the digital images, or combinations thereof.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising inviting a number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment.

15. The method of claim 14, in which inviting a number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment comprises inviting a number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment associated with an event.