Method, medium, and system for automated creation of montage of matching products
View Patent ↗Automated electronic document design systems and methods for generating matching customized product designs and preparing images of matching customized products in a montage for displaying to a user.
1. A computer implemented method for displaying a montage display of matching products, comprising:
receiving by one or more processors user selection of a template theme and user selection of customized content, the template theme comprising at least one of a group of template components consisting of template graphics, template images, template text and template color schemes, and the customized content comprising at least one of the group of customized components consisting of user-selected graphics, user-selected images, user-selected text and user-selected color schemes;
combining by one or more processors the selected template theme with the user-selected customized content to generate a product design;
transmitting by one or more processors the product design to one or more server computers, the one or more servers incorporating at least a portion of both the selected template theme and the user-selected customized content into a plurality of images of different products which generates a plurality of composite product images of the plurality of different products, and which further generates a single page montage of the plurality of composite product images such that at least a portion of the product design as incorporated into each of the plurality of different products is visible and at least a portion of a composite product image in the plurality of composite product images is not visible;
receiving of the montage by the user computer; and
displaying of the montage to the user on a display screen.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the plurality of product images in the montage overlap one another.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein respective sizes of the plurality of composite product images relative to one another are representative of respective sizes of actual products corresponding to the plurality of composite product images relative to one another.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising,
providing on the display screen at the user computer at least one mechanism which allows the user to find out more information about a product offered as a matching customized product and to order said matching customized product.
5. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising,
providing a link on the display screen at the user computer which allows the user to order one or more products corresponding to at least one of the composite product images displayed in the montage.
6. Non-transitory computer readable storage tangibly embodying program instructions which, when executed by a computer, implement a method for displaying a montage display of matching products, comprising:
receiving by one or more processors user selection of a template theme and user selection of customized content, the template theme comprising at least one of a group of template components consisting of template graphics, template images, template text and template color schemes, and the customized content comprising at least one of the group of customized components consisting of user-selected graphics, user-selected images, user-selected text and user-selected color schemes;
combining by one or more processors the selected template theme with the user-selected customized content to generate a product design;
transmitting by one or more processors the product design to one or more server computers, the one or more servers incorporating at least a portion of both the selected template theme and the user-selected customized content into a plurality of images of different products which generates a plurality of composite product images of the plurality of different products, and which further generates a single page montage of the plurality of composite product images such that at least a portion of the product design as incorporated into each of the plurality of different products is visible and at least a portion of a composite product image in the plurality of composite product images is not visible;
receiving of the montage by the user computer; and
displaying of the montage to the user on a display screen.
7. The non-transitory computer readable storage of claim 6 , wherein at least a portion of the plurality of product images in the montage overlap one another.
8. The non-transitory computer readable storage of claim 6 , wherein respective sizes of the plurality of composite product images relative to one another are representative of respective sizes of actual products corresponding to the plurality of composite product images relative to one another.
9. The non-transitory computer readable storage of claim 6 , the method further comprising,
providing on the display screen at the user computer at least one mechanism which allows the user to find out more information about a product offered as a matching customized product and to order said matching customized product.
10. The non-transitory computer readable storage of claim 6 , the method further comprising,
providing a link on the display screen at the user computer which allows the user to order one or more products corresponding to at least one of the composite product images displayed in the montage.
11. An apparatus for displaying a montage display of matching products, comprising:
one or more server computers configured to receive user selection of a template theme and user selection of customized content, the template theme comprising at least one of the group of template components consisting of template graphics, template images, template text and template color schemes, and the customized content comprising at least one of the group of customized components consisting of user-selected graphics, user-selected images, user-selected text and user-selected color schemes, the one or more server computers further configured to combine the selected template theme with the user-selected customized content to generate a product design;
a network connection over which the product design is transmitted to the one or more server computers;
wherein the one or more server computers are further configured to incorporate at least a portion of both the selected template theme and the user-selected customized content into a plurality of images of different products which generates a plurality of composite product images of the plurality of different products, and which further generates a single page montage of the plurality of composite product images such that at least a portion of the product design as incorporated into each of the plurality of different products is visible and at least a portion of a composite product image in the plurality of composite product images is not visible; and
wherein the one or more server computers are further configured to transmit the montage to a user computer for display on a display screen coupled to the user computer.