Searching digital content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11487405-B2
Application number	US-202117202048-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2021
Priority date	Nov 6, 2014
Publication date	Nov 1, 2022
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022

Abstract

One or more embodiments allow a user to search a gallery of digital content. In particular, a user can interact with a digital content system to search for, and identify, one or more digital content items (e.g., photos, videos, audio) within a collection of digital content. For instance, the digital content system can maintain tokens with respect to a collection of digital content and associate the tokens with digital content items within the collection of digital content. The digital content system can also provide a gallery of digital content items within a view area of a graphical user interface. Upon receiving a search query, the digital content system can identify a token and identify digital content items corresponding to the token. The digital content system can further provide a new or modified gallery within the view area of the graphical user interface based on the identified digital content items.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
providing a graphical user interface that provides access to a collection of digital images captured or received by one or more client devices associated with a user profile;
receiving, via a search input field within the graphical user interface, user input indicating at least one text character;
comparing the at least one text character with terms associated with digital images within the collection of digital images to identify terms comprising the at least one text character;
providing, within the graphical user interface, a plurality of suggested search queries based on the identified terms comprising the at least one text character;
receiving an indication of a selection of a suggested search query from the plurality of suggested search queries; and
based on receiving the selected suggested search query, providing, within the graphical user interface:
one or more digital images, from the collection of digital images, associated with the selected suggested search query and organized in groups according to a time or a location at which the one or more digital images were captured or received.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a query type for at least one suggested search query of the plurality of suggested search queries; and
providing, proximate to the at least one suggested search query within the graphical user interface, a search query type icon corresponding to the determined query type.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining the query type for at least one suggested search query of the plurality of suggested search queries comprises determining that the query type is one of a date type query or a location type query.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the plurality of suggested search queries comprises providing a list comprising the plurality of suggested search queries and a set of digital images, from the collection of digital images, associated with one or more of the plurality of suggested search queries.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the one or more images associated with the selected suggested search query comprises providing, within the graphical user interface:
a first location corresponding to a first group of one or more images associated with the selected suggested search query and a first date on which the first group of one or more images were captured or received; and
a second location corresponding to a second group of one or more images associated with the selected suggested search query and a second date on which the first group of one or more images were captured or received.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one search query from the plurality of suggested search queries comprises a combination of two or more identified terms.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing, for display within the search input field, a suggested search query from the plurality of suggested search queries based on receiving an indication of a user selection of the suggested search query.

8. A system comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
provide, within a graphical user interface, a collection of digital images captured or received by one or more client devices associated with a user profile;
receive, via a search input field within the graphical user interface, user input indicating at least one text character;
identify, within metadata associated with digital images within the collection of digital images, terms comprising the at least one text character;
provide, within the graphical user interface, a plurality of suggested search queries based on the identified terms comprising the at least one text character; and
receive an indication of a selection of a suggested search query from the plurality of suggested search queries; and
provide, within the graphical user interface:
one or more digital images, from the collection of digital images, associated with the selected suggested search query and organized in groups according to a time or a location at which the one or more digital images were captured or received.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein one or more of the plurality of suggested search queries correspond to at least one of: a location, a date, a person, content within an image, or an event.

10. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to provide the plurality of suggested search queries by providing a list comprising the plurality of suggested search queries and a set of digital images, from the collection of digital images, associated with one or more of the plurality of suggested search queries.

11. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to provide the one or more images associated with the selected suggested search query by providing, within the graphical user interface:
a first location corresponding to a first group of one or more images associated with the selected suggested search query and a first date on which the first group of one or more images were captured or received; and
a second location corresponding to a second group of one or more images associated with the selected suggested search query and a second date on which the first group of one or more images were captured or received.

12. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
receive an indication of a selection of an additional suggested search query from the plurality of suggested search queries; and
provide, within the graphical user interface, at least one digital image from the collection of digital images that is associated with both the selected suggested search query and the selected additional suggested search query.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein at least one search query from the plurality of suggested search queries comprises a combination of two or more identified terms.

14. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
determine a query type for at least one suggested search query of the plurality of suggested search queries; and
provide, proximate to the at least one suggested search query within the graphical user interface, a search query type icon corresponding to the determined query type.

15. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to provide, within the graphical user interface, an indication of a number of digital images associated with at least one suggested search query from the plurality of suggested search queries.

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a client device to:
provide a graphical user interface that provides access to a collection of digital images captured or received by one or more client devices associated with a user profile;
receive, via a search input field within the graphical user interface, user input indicating a first text character;
identify, from among potential search terms associated with digital images within the collection of digital images, terms comprising the first text character;
provide, within the graphical user interface, a plu

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Grue Anthony
• Kleinpeter Tom
• Wen Tina
• Haven Andrew

Classifications

• G06F3/0482 Primary

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F16/58

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06F16/5866

  using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information · CPC title

• G06F16/587

  using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location · CPC title