Granted Patent B2

US 12,260,230 · App. 18/143,331 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Inventors: Ian Anthony Wehrman (Venice, CA); Giles Goodwin (San Francisco, CA); Jared Iwata (Culver City, CA); Eugene Feingold (Santa Monica, CA); David LeMieux (Hermosa Beach, CA)

Assignee: Snap Inc.

G06F9/451G06F8/36G06F8/38G06F16/93G06F16/955G06F16/972

Abstract

Claims (119)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server system, location information for accessing a list of location data for source data associated with a publisher of media content in a content sharing platform;

generating a first video for a first location data in the list of location data by performing operations comprising:

extracting data from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

ranking templates specific to the publisher in an order of most relevant to least relevant to the data extracted from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

selecting, from the ranked templates, a first template most relevant to the data extracted based on the order of ranked templates;

populating the first template with data extracted from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

determining one or more regions of the first template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data;

retrieving media data stored with the first template and comprising at least one logo or stock image for the publisher;

populating the one or more regions of the first template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data with the media data stored with the first template and comprising the at least one logo or stock image for the publisher; and

generating the first video from the populated first template by transcoding the populated first template into a single video file;

generating a second video for a second location data in the list of location data by performing operations comprising:

extracting data from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

ranking templates specific to the publisher in an order of most relevant to least relevant to the data extracted from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

selecting, from the ranked templates, a second template most relevant to the data extracted based on the order of ranked templates;

populating the second template with data extracted from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

determining one or more regions of the second template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data;

retrieving media data specific to the second template and comprising at least one logo or stock image for the publisher;

populating the one or more regions of the second template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data with the media data specific to the second template and comprising the at least one logo or stock image for the publisher; and

generating the second video from the populated second template by transcoding the populated second template into a single video file;

generating a media collection comprising the first video and the second video as part of a slide show, each video comprising an associated time set by the publisher for the video to be displayed to a receiving user;

causing the first video of the media collection to be displayed on a computing device with an option to access a full article related to the first video; and

causing display of the full article upon detecting a swipe up on the option to access the full article related to the first video.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location information is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and each location data in the list of location data for the source data is a URL.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the source data is associated with a web page.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein extracting data from the source data comprises parsing the web page to extract the data using one or more rules.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location information is an RSS or Atom feed and the source data is associated with a URL listed in the RSS or Atom feed.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving updated content for at least one region of the first video;

storing the updated content for the at least one region of the first video;

receiving a selection of a third template to use to generate a third video, the third template comprising regions;

populating each region of the third template with data extracted from the source data and the updated content for the at least one region of the first video;

generating a third video from the populated third template; and

causing display of the generated third video on a computing device.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

detecting a trigger for a new media collection associated with the publisher, the trigger based on a publisher scheduled time interval or detecting new content in the source data;

based on detecting the trigger for the new media collection, accessing the location information to determine which of the source data has been previously processed for a previous media collection and which of the source data is new source content;

generating a new media collection based on the new source content in the source data; and

publishing the new media collection to the content sharing platform.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the scheduled time interval is a specified number of days or a specified time for generating a new media collection.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

detecting a trigger for a new media content item associated with the publisher, the trigger based on a publisher scheduled time interval or detecting new content in the source data;

based on detecting the trigger for the new media content item, accessing the location information to determine which of the source data has been previously processed for a previous media collection and which of the source data is new source content;

generating a new video based on the new source content; and

publishing the new video in the media collection on the content sharing platform.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the new video is generated based on automatically determining a template to populate with the new source content, using a default template to populate with the new source content, or using a template identifier supplied by the publisher associated to determine a template to populate with the new source content.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving updated content for at least one region of the first video;

selecting a third template that comprises regions that match the data extracted to generate a third video to replace the first video;

populating each region of the selected third template with data extracted and using the updated content to populate the at least one region of the third template;

generating the third video item from the populated third template; and

replacing the first video with the third video in the media collection.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein each video of the media collection is an ephemeral message that is removed from a receiving computing device after viewing or a predetermined amount of time and further comprising:

determining that a video of the media collection has been viewed on a receiving device or a predetermined amount of time has passed; and

removing the video from the receiving computing device.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining templates specific to the publisher based on a publisher identifier associated with the location information.

14. A system comprising:

a memory that stores instructions; and

one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising:

receiving location information for accessing a list of location data for source data associated with a publisher of media content in a content sharing platform;

generating a first video for a first location data in the list of location data by performing operations comprising:

extracting data from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

ranking templates specific to the publisher in an order of most relevant to least relevant to the data extracted from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

selecting, from the ranked templates, a first template most relevant to the data extracted based on the order of ranked templates;

populating the first template with data extracted from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

determining one or more regions of the first template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data;

retrieving media data stored with the first template and comprising at least one logo or stock image for the publisher;

populating the one or more regions of the first template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data with the media data stored with the first template and comprising the at least one logo or stock image for the publisher; and

generating the first video from the populated first template by transcoding the populated first template into a single video file;

generating a second video for a second location data in the list of location data by performing operations comprising:

extracting data from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

ranking templates specific to the publisher in an order of most relevant to least relevant to the data extracted from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

selecting, from the ranked templates, a second template most relevant to the data extracted based on the order of ranked templates;

populating the second template with data extracted from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

determining one or more regions of the second template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data;

retrieving media data specific to the second template and comprising at least one logo or stock image for the publisher;

populating the one or more regions of the second template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data with the media data specific to the second template and comprising the at least one logo or stock image for the publisher; and

generating the second video from the populated second template by transcoding the populated second template into a single video file;

generating a media collection comprising the first video and the second video as part of a slide show video comprising an associated time set by the publisher for the video to be displayed to a receiving user;

causing the first video of the media collection to be displayed on a computing device with an option to access a full article related to the first video; and

causing display of the full article upon detecting a swipe up on the option to access the full article related to the first video.

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

detecting a trigger for a new media collection associated with the publisher, the trigger based on a publisher scheduled time interval or detecting new content in the source data;

based on detecting the trigger for the new media collection, accessing the location information to determine which of the source data has been previously processed for a previous media collection and which of the source data is new source content;

generating a new media collection based on the new source content in the source data; and

publishing the new media collection to the content sharing platform.

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

detecting a trigger for a new media content item associated with the publisher, the trigger based on a publisher scheduled time interval or detecting new content in the source data;

based on detecting the trigger for the new media content item, accessing the location information to determine which of the source data has been previously processed for a previous media collection and which of the source data is new source content;

generating a new video based on the new source content; and

publishing the new video in the media collection on the content sharing platform.

17. The system of claim 14 , further comprising:

determining templates specific to the publisher based on a publisher identifier associated with the location information.

18. The system of claim 14 , wherein the location information is an RSS or Atom feed and the source data is associated with a URL listed in the RSS or Atom feed.

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

receiving, by a server system, location information for accessing a list of location data for source data associated with a publisher of media content in a content sharing platform;

generating a first video for a first location data in the list of location data by performing operations comprising:

extracting data from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

ranking templates specific to the publisher in an order of most relevant to least relevant to the data extracted from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

selecting, from the ranked templates, a first template most relevant to the data extracted based on the order of ranked templates;

populating the first template with data extracted from the source data corresponding to the first location data;

determining one or more regions of the first template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data;

retrieving media data stored with the first template and comprising at least one logo or stock image for the publisher;

populating the one or more regions of the first template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data with the media data stored with the first template and comprising the at least one logo or stock image for the publisher; and

generating the first video from the populated first template by transcoding the populated first template into a single video file;

generating a second video for a second location data in the list of location data by performing operations comprising:

extracting data from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

ranking templates specific to the publisher in an order of most relevant to least relevant to the data extracted from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

selecting, from the ranked templates, a second template most relevant to the data extracted based on the order of ranked templates;

populating the second template with data extracted from the source data corresponding to the second location data;

determining one or more regions of the second template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data;

retrieving media data specific to the second template and comprising at least one logo or stock image for the publisher;

populating the one or more regions of the second template for which there is no extracted data available from the source data with the media data specific to the second template and comprising the at least one logo or stock image for the publisher; and

generating the second video from the populated second template by transcoding the populated second template into a single video file;

generating a media collection comprising the first video and the second video as part of a slide show video comprising an associated time set by the publisher for the video to be displayed to a receiving user;

causing the first video of the media collection to be displayed on a computing device with an option to access a full article related to the first video; and

causing display of the full article upon detecting a swipe up on the option to access the full article related to the first video.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the location information is an RSS or Atom feed and the source data is associated with a URL listed in the RSS or Atom feed.

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