IP Library Granted Patent US 11,388,132
Granted Patent B1
US 11,388,132 · App. 16/425,909 · Granted Jul 12, 2022

Automated social media replies

Inventor: Debashish Paul (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
H04L51/32G06F3/0482G06F3/04817G06F3/04842H04L51/02H04L51/10
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Patent No.
US 11,388,132
App. No.
16/425,909
Granted
Jul 12, 2022
Kind
B1
Abstract

Systems and methods for creating and maintaining an interactive time display may include (1) presenting a social media post within a consumption interface of a social media platform, (2) predicting a viewer's response to the post and selecting an automated digital response that coincides with the predicted response, (3) providing a selectable version of the automated digital response within the consumption interface, (4) receiving user input selecting the automated digital response, and (5) in response to receiving the user input, posting the automated digital response to the post. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Claims (73)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

presenting a particular post, from a social media story comprising a plurality of posts, within a consumption interface configured for a particular viewer, wherein:

the consumption interface comprises a post-response area for viewer responses to the particular post; and

the post-response area enables the selection of one or more emojis to be posted to the particular post as a viewer response to the particular post;

determining that more than a threshold amount of emojis, already posted to the particular post by other viewers, have been emojis with a particular image;

based on the determination:

predicting that the particular viewer will be interested in posting an emoji with the particular image to the particular post; and

providing a selectable emoji with the particular image within the post-response area;

providing a producer of the social media story with a viewer summary sheet interface comprising a horizontally scrollable digital carousel of thumbnails, each thumbnail corresponding to a different post of the social media story; and

in response to receiving horizontal user scrolling input to the digital carousal that places a thumbnail, from the digital carousal, in a designated position, presenting, within the viewer summary sheet interface, a vertically scrollable summary of each interaction that a viewer of the social media story has had with a post corresponding to the thumbnail, the vertically scrollable summary comprising a summary of interactions from a plurality of different viewers.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein a vertical placement of the digital carousal is statically maintained in a designated portion of viewer summary sheet interface.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the vertically scrollable summary of each interaction comprises at least one of:

one or more emojis posted to the post corresponding to the thumbnail;

a viewing of the post corresponding to the thumbnail;

one or more comments posted to the post corresponding to the thumbnail; or

one or more messages sent in relation to the post corresponding to the thumbnail.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of posts consists of posts added to the social media story by the producer within a designated time period.

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

receiving user input, to the vertically scrollable summary, selecting an entry for the particular viewer from viewers included within the vertically scrollable summary; and

in response to receiving the user input, providing a viewer-specific summary interface, corresponding to the particular viewer, that summarizes each interaction the particular viewer has had with the post corresponding to the thumbnail.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the viewer-specific summary interface further comprises a summary of each interaction the particular viewer has had with any post of the social media story.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the viewer-specific summary interface further comprises a message-launching element configured to launch a private message between the producer and the particular viewer when selected via user input.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the viewer summary sheet interface is accessible to only the producer of the social media story.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising, while providing the viewer summary sheet interface and in response to receiving additional horizontal user scrolling input to the digital carousal that places an additional thumbnail, from the digital carousal, in the designated position, replacing the vertically scrollable summary of each interaction a viewer of the social media story has had with the post corresponding to the thumbnail with a vertically scrollable summary of each interaction a viewer of the social media story has had with an additional post corresponding to the additional thumbnail.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining that more than a threshold amount of the emojis, already posted to the particular post, have been emojis with the particular image comprises at least one of:

determining that more than a threshold number of the emojis, already posted to the particular post, have been emojis with the particular image; or

determining that more than a threshold percentage of the emojis, already posted to the particular post, have been emojis with the particular image.

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

identifying content within the particular post;

identifying at least one of an emotion or a theme of the content;

predicting that the particular viewer's response to the particular post will align with at least one of the emotion or the theme;

generating an automated digital response that coincides with at least one of the emotion or the theme; and

providing a selectable version of the automated digital response within the post-response area.

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

identifying content within one or more previously posted responses to the particular post;

identifying at least one of an emotion or a theme of the content;

predicting that the viewer's response to the particular post will align with at least one of the emotion or the theme;

generating an automated digital response that coincides with at least one of the emotion or the theme; and

providing a selectable version of the automated digital response within the post-response area.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising, in addition to providing the selectable emoji with the particular image within the post-response area, providing a generic automated response within the post-response area.

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

receiving user input to the post-response area of the consumption interface selecting the selectable emoji with the particular image from the post-response area; and

in response to receiving the user input, posting the emoji with the particular image to the particular post on behalf of the particular viewer.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein posting the emoji with the particular image to the particular post comprises digitally affixing the emoji with the particular image to the particular post within the post-response area.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the emoji with the particular image comprises at least one of an emoji with a sad face, an emoji with a heart, or an emoji with a smiling face.

17. A system comprising:

a post-maintenance module, stored in memory, that:

presents a particular post, from a social media story comprising a plurality of posts, within a consumption interface configured for a particular viewer, wherein:

the consumption interface comprises a post-response area for viewer responses to the particular post; and

the post-response area enables the selection of one or more emojis to be posted to the particular post as a viewer response to the particular post;

determines that more than a threshold amount of emojis, already posted to the particular post by other viewers, have been emojis with a particular image;

based on the determination:

predicts that the particular viewer will be interested in posting an emoji with the particular image to the particular post; and

provides a selectable emoji with the particular image within the post-response area;

provides a producer of the social media story with a viewer summary sheet interface comprising a horizontally scrollable digital carousel of thumbnails, each thumbnail corresponding to a different post of the social media story;

in response to receiving horizontal user scrolling input to the digital carousal that places a thumbnail, from the digital carousal, in a designated position, presents, within the viewer summary sheet interface, a vertically scrollable summary of each interaction that a viewer of the social media story has had with a post corresponding to the thumbnail, the vertically scrollable summary comprising a summary of interactions from a plurality of different viewers; and

at least one physical processor configured to execute the post-maintenance module.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein a vertical placement of the digital carousal is statically maintained in a designated portion of viewer summary sheet interface.

19. The system of claim 17 , wherein the vertically scrollable summary of each interface comprises at least one of:

one or more emojis posted to the post corresponding to the thumbnail;

a viewing of the post corresponding to the thumbnail;

one or more comments posted to the post corresponding to the thumbnail; or

one or more messages sent in relation to the post corresponding to the thumbnail.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

present a particular post, from a social media story comprising a plurality of posts, within a consumption interface configured for a particular viewer, wherein:

the consumption interface comprises a post-response area for viewer responses to the particular post; and

the post-response area enables the selection of one or more emojis to be posted to the particular post as a viewer response to the particular post;

determine that more than a threshold amount of emojis, already posted to the particular post by other viewers, have been emojis with a particular image;

based on the determination:

predict that the particular viewer will be interested in posting an emoji with the particular image to the particular post; and

provide a selectable emoji with the particular image within the post-response area;

provide a producer of the social media story with a viewer summary sheet interface comprising a horizontally scrollable digital carousel of thumbnails, each thumbnail corresponding to a different post of the social media story; and

in response to receiving horizontal user scrolling input to the digital carousal that places a thumbnail, from the digital carousal, in a designated position, present, within the viewer summary sheet interface, a vertically scrollable summary of each interaction that a viewer of the social media story has had with a post corresponding to the thumbnail, the vertically scrollable summary comprising a summary of interactions from a plurality of different viewers.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 11, 2022
From: FACEBOOK, INC.
To: META PLATFORMS, INC.
Reel/Frame 058685/0901 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE'S NAME ON THE COVER SHEET PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 049377 FRAME: 0176. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Sep 13, 2021
From: PAUL, DEBASHISH
To: FACEBOOK, INC.
Reel/Frame 057584/0107 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 5, 2019
From: PAUL, DEBASHISH
To: FACEBOOK, INC.,
Reel/Frame 049377/0176 →