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US 12,248,506 · App. 17/249,509 · Granted Mar 11, 2025

Generation, curation, and presentation of media collections

Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen (Venice, CA); Sheldon Chang (Venice, CA); Maria Pavlovskaia (San Francisco, CA); Amer Shahnawaz (New York, NY); Jianchao Yang (Los Angeles, CA)
Assignee: Snap Inc.
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Patent No.
US 12,248,506
App. No.
17/249,509
Granted
Mar 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at a server computer, a plurality of content messages from a plurality of content sources, each content message comprising media content and associated with a predetermined media collection, for each of the plurality of content messages received, analyzing each of the plurality of content messages to determine a quality score for each of the plurality of content messages, and storing each of the plurality of content messages in a database along with the quality score for each of the plurality of content messages. The systems and methods further provided for receiving, from an operator device, a threshold percentage for the media collection, determining a subset of the plurality of content messages associated with the media collection to be made available to the operator device based on the threshold percentage received from the operator device and the quality score for each of the plurality of content messages, and causing only the subset of the plurality of content messages associated with media collection to be displayed on the operator device for the media collection.

Claims (57)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

superimposing an option on a display of a plurality of content messages to be considered for inclusion in a media collection accessible by one or more computing devices, the option including an input area to input a threshold percentage value for top quality content messages based on a quality score, the quality score indicating a quality of audio, photographs, videos or text, for each content message;

receiving input via the input area of the option superimposed on the display of the plurality of content messages, the input comprising a threshold percentage value for the top quality content messages based on the quality score for each content message;

determining a subset of content messages of the plurality of content messages that comprise content messages equal to a number of content messages indicated by the received input threshold percentage value with a highest quality score;

causing the display of the content messages to be updated to display only the subset of content messages equal to the number of content messages indicated by the received input threshold percentage value with the highest quality score;

receiving a selection of at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages;

causing display of a visual indication of the selection of the at least one individual content message distinguishing the at least one individual content message from unselected content messages within the displayed subset of content messages; and

causing the display of the subset of content messages to be updated to cause the visual indication of the selection of the at least one individual content message distinguishing the at least one individual content message from unselected content messages within the displayed subset of content messages to change to indicate that the selection of the at least one individual content message within the displayed subset of content messages has gone live.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the media collection comprises content messages generated by a plurality of computing devices while the plurality of computing devices were located in a predetermined location.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the predetermined location is associated with a live event and the media collection is accessible for only a predetermined amount of time associated with the live event.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of content messages to be considered for inclusion in the media collection are determined based on an image or video of each of the plurality of content messages.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein before receiving the selection of the at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages, the method comprises:

receiving a new set of content messages, and

recalculating the number of content messages indicated by the input threshold percentage value including the new set of content messages.

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

determining whether to recalculate the number of content messages based on a predetermined number of new content messages that have been received in the new set of content messages.

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

determining whether to recalculate the number of content messages based on a predetermined amount of time that has elapsed.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein before receiving the selection of the at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages, the method comprises:

receiving a second threshold percentage value; and

recalculating the number of content messages based on the second threshold percentage value.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the media collection is associated with a geolocation, event, topic, or common user interest.

10. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable medium coupled with the processor, the computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:

superimposing an option on a display of a plurality of content messages to be considered for inclusion in a media collection accessible by one or more computing devices, the option including an input area to input a threshold percentage value for top quality content messages based on a quality score, the quality score indicating a quality of audio, photographs, videos or text, for each content message;

receiving input via the input area of the option superimposed on the display of the plurality of content messages, the input comprising a threshold percentage value for the top quality content messages based on the quality score for each content message;

determining a subset of content messages of the plurality of content messages that comprise content messages equal to a number of content messages indicated by the received input threshold percentage value with a highest quality score;

causing the display of the content messages to be updated to display only the subset of content messages equal to the number of content messages indicated by the input threshold percentage value with the highest quality score;

receiving a selection of at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages;

causing display of a visual indication of the selection of the at least one individual content message distinguishing the at least one individual content message from unselected content messages within the displayed subset of content messages; and

causing the display of the subset of content messages to be updated to cause the visual indication of the selection of the at least one individual content message distinguishing the at least one individual content message from unselected content messages within the displayed subset of content messages to change to indicate that the selection of the at least one individual content message within the displayed subset of content messages has gone live.

11. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the media collection comprises content messages generated by a plurality of computing devices while the plurality of computing devices were located in a predetermined location.

12. The computing device of claim 11 , wherein the predetermined location is associated with a live event and the media collection is accessible for only a predetermined amount of time associated with the live event.

13. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of content messages to be considered for inclusion in the media collection are determined based on an image or video of each of the plurality of content messages.

14. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein before receiving the selection of the at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages, the operations comprise:

receiving a new set of content messages; and

recalculating the number of content messages indicated by the input threshold percentage value including the new set of content messages.

15. The computing device of claim 14 , the operations further comprising:

determining whether to recalculate the number of content messages based on a predetermined number of new content messages that have been received in the new set of content messages.

16. The computing device of claim 14 , the operations further comprising:

determining whether to recalculate the number of content messages based on a predetermined amount of time that has elapsed.

17. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein before receiving the selection of the at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages, the operations comprise:

receiving a second threshold percentage value; and

recalculating the number of content messages based on the second threshold percentage value.

18. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the media collection is associated with a geolocation, event, topic, or common user interest.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by at least one processor to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:

superimposing an option on a display of a plurality of content messages to be considered for inclusion in a media collection accessible by one or more computing devices, the option including an input area to input a threshold percentage value for top quality content messages based on a quality score, the quality score indicating a quality of audio, photographs, videos or text, for each content message;

receiving input via the input area of the option superimposed on the display of the plurality of content messages, the input comprising a threshold percentage value for the top quality content messages based on the quality score for each content message;

determining a subset of content messages of the plurality of content messages that comprise content messages equal to a number of content messages indicated by the input threshold percentage value with a highest quality score;

causing the display of the content messages to be updated to display only the subset of content messages equal to the number of content messages indicated by the input threshold percentage value with the highest quality score;

receiving a selection of at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages;

causing display of a visual indication of the selection of the at least one individual content message distinguishing the at least one individual content message from unselected content messages within the displayed subset of content messages; and

causing the display of the subset of content messages to be updated to cause the visual indication of the selection of the at least one individual content message distinguishing the at least one individual content message from unselected content messages within the displayed subset of content messages to change to indicate that the selection of the at least one individual content message within the displayed subset of content messages has gone live.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19 , wherein before receiving the selection of the at least one individual content message of the displayed subset of content messages, the operations comprise:

receiving a new set of content messages; and

recalculating the number of content messages indicated by the received input threshold percentage value including the new set of content messages.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 9, 2025
From: ALLEN, NICHOLAS RICHARD; CHANG, SHELDON; PAVLOVSKAIA, MARIA; SHAHNAWAZ, AMER; YANG, JIANCHAO
To: SNAPCHAT, INC.
Reel/Frame 069803/0503 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 9, 2025
From: SNAPCHAT, INC.
To: SNAP INC.
Reel/Frame 069803/0948 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15054827 · Feb 26, 2016
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