Assisting the authoring of posts to an asymmetric social network

• US 9,485,285 B1
• Filed: 11/11/2013
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Fukujima Goto, Samuel Shoji, Rideout, Joseph, Kowitz, Braden F., Jackson, Todd
• Primary Examiner(s): Cunningham, Gregory F
• Application Number:
  US14/076,583
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• Field of Search: 382/100
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for assisting the authoring of posts to an asymmetric social network. In one aspect, a method performed by a system of one or more data processing devices includes receiving, at the system, an identification of an electronic document that is available on the Internet, the system identifying image content in the electronic document, the system filtering the identified image content, the system triggering presentation of the filtered image content to an author of a post to an asymmetric social network, the system receiving a selection of a first image from amongst the presented image content, and the system adding the first image to a post to the asymmetric social network.

Claims

1. A method performed by a system of one or more data processing devices, the method comprising:

receiving, at the system, an identification of an electronic document available online;

identifying image content associated with the electronic document;

filtering the identified image content;

presenting the filtered image content to an author of a post to a social network, wherein the system allows for selection of more than one image;

receiving a selection of at least a first image from amongst the presented image content; and

adding at least the first image to the post to the social network,

wherein the filtered image content is caused to be displayed in an order corresponding to a calculated probability for desirable inclusion in the post to the social network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein filtering the identified image content comprises:

identifying an advertisement in the electronic document; and

separating the identified advertisement from the filtered image content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein identifying the advertisement comprises categorizing an image having an aspect ratio equal to or greater than 3:

1 as the advertisement.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein filtering the identified image content comprises:

identifying at least one of an icon and a decorative element in the electronic document; and

separating at least the one of the icon and the decorative element from the filtered image content.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying at least the one of the icon and the decorative element comprises categorizing an image that is smaller than thirty pixels on any side as at least the one of the icon and the decorative element.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting a likeness of a screenshot of the electronic document to the author of the post;

receiving an approval of inclusion of the likeness of the screenshot of the electronic document in the post; and

adding the likeness of the screenshot to the post.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying by a server and a mobile device a user interface that assists in authoring of the post to the social network.

8. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving an identification of an electronic document available online;

identifying image content associated with the electronic document;

filtering the identified image content;

presenting the filtered image content to an author of a post to a social network, and allowing for selection of more than one image, wherein presenting the filtered image content comprises causing the filtered image content to be displayed in an order corresponding to a calculated probability for desirable inclusion in the post to the social network;

receiving a selection of at least a first image from amongst the presented image content; and

adding at least the first image to the post to the social network.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising instructions for:

identifying an advertisement in the electronic document; and

separating the identified advertisement from the filtered image content.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein identifying the advertisement comprises categorizing an image having an aspect ratio equal to or greater than 3:

1 as the advertisement.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein filtering the identified image content comprises:

identifying at least one of an icon and a decorative element in the electronic document; and

separating at least the one of the icon and the decorative element from the filtered image content.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein identifying at least the one of the icon and the decorative element comprises categorizing an image that is smaller than thirty pixels on any side as at least the one of the icon and the decorative element.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising instructions for:

triggering presentation of a likeness of a screenshot of the electronic document to the author of the post;

receiving an approval of inclusion of the likeness of the screenshot of the electronic document in the post; and

adding the likeness of the screenshot to the post.

20. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising displaying a user interface that assists in authoring of the post to the social network.

14. A computing system, comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory architecture coupled with the at least one processor; and

one or more software modules executed on the at least one processor and the at least one memory architecture, wherein the one or more software modules are configured to perform operations including;

receiving an identification of an electronic document available online;

identifying image content associated with the electronic document;

filtering the identified image content;

presenting the filtered image content to an author of a post to a social network, and allowing for selection of more than one image, wherein presenting the filtered image content includes causing the filtered image content to be displayed in an order corresponding to a calculated probability for desirable inclusion in the post to the social network;

receiving a selection of at least a first image from amongst the presented image content; and

adding at least the first image to the post to the social network.

15. The computing system of claim 14 further configured to perform operations comprising:

identifying an advertisement in the electronic document; and

separating the identified advertisement from the filtered image content.

16. The computing system of claim 15, wherein identifying the advertisement comprises categorizing an image having an aspect ratio equal to or greater than 3:

1 as the advertisement.

17. The computing system of claim 14, wherein filtering the identified image content comprises:

identifying at least one of an icon and a decorative element in the electronic document; and

separating at least the one of the icon and the decorative element from the filtered image content.

18. The computing system of claim 14, wherein identifying at least the one of the icon and the decorative element comprises categorizing an image that is smaller than thirty pixels on any side as at least the one of the icon and the decorative element.

19. The computing system of claim 14 further configured to perform operations comprising:

triggering presentation of a likeness of a screenshot of the electronic document to the author of the post;

receiving an approval of inclusion of the likeness of the screenshot of the electronic document in the post; and

adding the likeness of the screenshot to the post.