Photo album creation based on social media content

• US 9,626,382 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2012
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Luu, Le H
• Application Number:
  US13/553,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20130339437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,734 Days
• 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 computer program product for creating a physical representation of digital information located on a social networking environment, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage device comprising computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor;

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

retrieve data associated with the digital images;

identify user-selection of a number of instances of data associated with a number of digital images from the social networking environment comprising comments related to a specific group within the social networking environment; and

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

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

2. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by the processor, customize a number of parameters of the physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, in which the computer usable program code to, when executed by the processor, customize a number of parameters of the physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images comprises computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, customize 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.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by the processor, charge 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.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by the processor, edit the data associated with the digital images.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by the processor, invite a number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the computer usable program code to, when executed by the processor, invite the number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment comprises inviting the number of users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment associated with an event.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising computer usable program code to, when executed by the processor, invite a number of users to contribute the digital images on the social networking environment.

9. A network for creating a physical representation of digital information located on a social networking environment, comprising:

a number of computer system servers comprising a processing unit and a memory, the memory storing a number of digital images and data associated with the digital images presented within the social networking environment;

in which the processing unit;

retrieves the digital images from the social networking environment;

retrieves the data associated with the digital images; and

creates the physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images, the data associated with the digital images comprising information about the subject matter of the digital images,

wherein creating the physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images comprises adding an index marker to the physical representation, the index marker identifying from which of a number of photo albums within the social networking environment the images originate.

10. The network of claim 9, further comprising a number of printing devices communicatively coupled to the computer system servers to print physical representations of the digital images and data associated with the digital images.

11. The network of claim 9, further comprising a number of local computing devices communicatively coupled to the computer system servers, in which the computer system servers receive user instructions from the local computing devices to create a physical representation of the digital images and data associated with the digital images.

12. The network of claim 9, wherein the processing unit further sends an invitation to a number of users to invite the users to contribute the data associated with the digital images on the social networking environment associated with an event.