SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MEDIA CONTENT WITH RECOGNIZED SOCIAL CONNECTIONS

• US 20170329989A1
• Filed: 08/01/2017
• Published: 11/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ruben, William M., He, Lin, Gomez, Zachary W., Bharambe, Ashwin, Javier, Laura
• Granted Patent: US 10,438,014 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/2004 Aligning objects, relative positioning of parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44226 on social networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect a set of images locally stored on a computing system. The computing system can be associated with a first user. One or more facial recognition processes can be applied to the set of images. It can be determined, based on the one or more facial recognition processes, that a subset of images, out of the set of images, is associated with a second user. One or more options for the first user to share the subset of images with the second user can be provided.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

presenting, by a computing system, to a first user a first virtual card associated with images associated with a second user, the first virtual card in a topmost layer of a virtual card stack;

receiving, by the computing system, a command that causes the images to be shared with the second user; and

providing, by the computing system, an animation depicting movement of the first virtual card into a set of collections of images shared by members of a social networking system, the set of collections of images presented separately from the virtual card stack.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is associated with the first user and the images associated with the second user are a subset of a set of images locally stored on the computing device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising:

selecting the images associated with the second user from the set of images based on a facial recognition process.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining that information associated with a face template associated with the second user is permitted to be transmitted to the computing system.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the facial recognition process utilizes at least in part the face template associated with the second user.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting a selectable option for the first user to provide the command.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

ranking social affinity relating to the first user and the images associated with the second user and social affinities relating to the first user and other images associated with other users; and

selecting the topmost layer in the virtual card stack for the first virtual card based on the ranking.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the set of collections of images is presented as a gallery view or a feed view.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a collection of the set of collections of images is shared by at least one of the first user and a connection of the first user on the social networking system.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the set of collections of images is sorted chronologically based on time data indicating when each collection in the set of collections of images was shared.

11. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform;

presenting to a first user a first virtual card associated with images associated with a second user, the first virtual card in a topmost layer of a virtual card stack;

receiving a command that causes the images to be shared with the second user; and

providing an animation depicting movement of the first virtual card into a set of collections of images shared by members of a social networking system, the set of collections of images presented separately from the virtual card stack.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the computing device is associated with the first user and the images associated with the second user are a subset of a set of images locally stored on the computing device.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

selecting the images associated with the second user from the set of images based on a facial recognition process.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

determining that information associated with a face template associated with the second user is permitted to be transmitted to the computing system.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the facial recognition process utilizes at least in part the face template associated with the second user.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform:

presenting to a first user a first virtual card associated with images associated with a second user, the first virtual card in a topmost layer of a virtual card stack;

receiving a command that causes the images to be shared with the second user; and

providing an animation depicting movement of the first virtual card into a set of collections of images shared by members of a social networking system, the set of collections of images presented separately from the virtual card stack.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the computing device is associated with the first user and the images associated with the second user are a subset of a set of images locally stored on the computing device.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, further comprising:

selecting the images associated with the second user from the set of images based on a facial recognition process.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, further comprising:

determining that information associated with a face template associated with the second user is permitted to be transmitted to the computing system.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the facial recognition process utilizes at least in part the face template associated with the second user.