Curating a digital magazine with a user's own content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10366128-B2
Application number	US-201514939920-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2015
Priority date	Nov 12, 2015
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

A digital magazine application executing on a client device is configured to receive content items from a user of the client device or from a digital magazine server, generate pages in a digital magazine by processing the received content, and provide the pages to a user of the client device. The client device generates a new personalized digital magazine for a user by enabling the user to select content items stored in the user's local storage of the client device and to create stories about the selected content items. The personalized digital magazine includes the user's own content items, corresponding stories and content items recommended by the digital magazine server, which share common characteristics with the user's own content items. The client device can also include a user's own content items into a magazine currently presented to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for including a user's own content items in a digital magazine, the method comprising:
receiving, at a client device, a content item from the user of a client device to be included in a digital magazine;
storing the content item in a local storage medium of the client device;
instructing, via the client device, the user to select a plurality of attributes associated with the content item, an attribute associated with the content item comprising a color selected by the user for presenting the content item in the digital magazine;
applying the user selected attributes to the content item by the client device, including
determining the color selected by the user is not consistent with colors used to present other content items in the digital magazine,
instructing the user to select an alternative color that is consistent with colors used to present other content items in the digital magazine in response to the determining,
receiving a selection of the alternative color from the user, and
applying the alternative color to the content item so the content item is presented in the digital magazine using the alternative color;

sending the content item and the attributes applied to the content item from the client device to a digital magazine server;
receiving one or more additional content items from the digital magazine server at the client device, the one or more additional content items selected by the digital magazine server based on the attributes applied to the content item, and a page template associated with a type of the client device and specifying slots identifying relative locations of the one or more additional content items and the content item to each other when the additional content items and the content item are displayed to the user on the client device, each slot also identifying a size for presenting content corresponding to a slot and an aspect ratio for presenting content corresponding to the slot; and
displaying the one or more additional content items and the content item in display regions of a display device included on the client device, display regions corresponding to slots specified by the page template in which the one or more additional content items are presented specified by the page template with the size and the aspect ratio specified by slots corresponding to display regions presenting the one or more additional content items and a display region corresponding to the slot specified by the page template in which the content item is presented with the size and the aspect ratio specified by the slot corresponding to the display regions presenting the content item specified by the page template according to the page template for displaying the content items from the digital magazine server.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of attributes associated with the content item further includes at least one of: a style, a caption and a text describing a story of the content item.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying the user selected attributes to the content item comprises:
adding a caption selected by the user to the content item; and
adding a text selected by the user to the caption, the text describing a story of the content item.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
executing a browser application for the user to select one or more stories of the content item.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more content items from the digital magazine server share at least one common attribute associated with the content item.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the common attributes associated with the content item includes at least one of: a type of the content item, a source of the content item, time when the content item was received, subject matter of the content item and user profile of the user providing the content item.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions received from the digital magazine server describe relative positioning of the content items when displayed on a display of the client device.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising presenting the user a plurality of options for the user to interact with the content items included in the digital magazine.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of options for the user to interact with the content items included in the digital magazine comprise at least one of the following:
an option to collect stories into a digital magazine;
an option to attach supplemental content to a selected content item;
an option to share a selected content item with other users of the digital magazine server;
an option to identify users to receive a selected content item; and
an option to select a communication channel to share a selected content item.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the option to collect stories into a digital magazine comprises an option to collect stories into a new digital magazine and an option to collect stories into a digital magazine currently presented to the user.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable computer program instructions for including a user's own content items in a digital magazine, the computer program instructions when executed by a computer processor cause the computer processor to:
receive, at the client device, a content item from the user of a client device to be included in a digital magazine;
store the content item in a local storage medium of the client device;
instruct, via the client device, the user to select a plurality of attributes associated with the content item, an attribute associated with the content item comprising a color selected by the user for presenting the content item in the digital magazine;
apply the user selected attributes to the content item by the client device, including
determining the color selected by the user is not consistent with colors used to present other content items in the digital magazine,
instructing the user to select an alternative color that is consistent with colors used to present other content items in the digital magazine in response to the determining,
receiving a selection of the alternative color from the user, and
applying the alternative color to the content item so the content item is presented in the digital magazine using the alternative color;

receive one or more additional content items from the digital magazine server at the client device, the one or more additional content items selected by the digital magazine server based on the attributes applied to the content item, and a page template associated with a type of the client device and specifying slots identifying relative locations of the one or more additional content items and the content item to each other when the additional content items and the content item are displayed to the user on the client device, each slot also identifying a size for presenting content corresponding to a slot and an aspect ratio for presenting content corresponding to the slot; and
display the one or more additional content items and the content item in display regions of a display device included on the client device, display regions corresponding to slots specified by the page template in which the one or more additional content items are presented specified by the page template with the size and the aspect ratio specified by slots corresponding to display regions presenting the one or more additional content items and a display region corresponding to the slot specified by the page template in which the content item is presented with the size and the aspect ratio specified by the slot corresponding to the display regions presenting the conte

Assignees

• Flipboard Inc

Inventors

• Olson Ryan

Classifications

• G06F16/9535 Primary

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F3/0484 Primary

  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 title