Event planning in a content sharing platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021006519-A1
Application number	US-201916503783-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 5, 2019
Priority date	Jul 5, 2019
Publication date	Jan 7, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for receiving a selection to add an event invite media overlay to a media content item, receiving content to be added to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to an event, and adding to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to the event to generate a custom event invite media overlay. The systems and methods further comprise causing display of the custom event invite media overlay on the media content item, receiving at least one user to which to send an invite to the event, and sending, to a second computing device associated with the at least one user, an invite to the event, the invite comprising the custom event invite media overlay and the media content item.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
capturing, by a computing device, a media content item via a camera device of the computing device; providing, by the computing device, an option to add an event invite media overlay to the media content item; receiving, by the computing device, a selection to add the event invite media overlay to the media content item; receiving, by the computing device, content to be added to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to an event; adding, by the computing device, to the event invite media overlay the content corresponding to the event to generate a custom event invite media overlay; causing display of the custom event invite media overlay on the media content item; receiving, by the computing device, at least one user to which to send an invite to the event; and sending, to a second computing device associated with the at least one user, the invite to the event, the invite comprising the custom event invite media overlay and the media content item, wherein the custom event invite media overlay is displayed on the media content item on a user interface of the second computing device.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the media content item comprises an image or video.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the event invite media overlay is in the form of a sticker.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein content corresponding to the event comprises at least one of a title, a location, a date, or a time of day.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a notification indicating that the at least one user joined the event after receiving the invite.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is associated with a first user and the method further comprises:
causing display of a list of users that have joined the event, a list of users that were invited but have not joined the event, and a list of users invited by a second user that has joined the event.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
causing an indication of the event to display on a map in a user interface on the computing device, the indication of the event appearing on the map at a location corresponding to the event and within a specified time period corresponding to the time of day of the event.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
causing display of an avatar corresponding to each user that is currently attending the event, with the indication of the event on the map.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
causing display of a chat session between users that have joined the event, wherein a user joining an event can only view messages in the chat session that occurred after the user joined the event.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
capturing a second media content item via the camera device of the computing device; determining that the second media content item is captured at a location and time of day corresponding to the event; ranking options to which to send the second media content item in a destination list wherein a media collection corresponding to the event is ranked higher in the destination list based on determining that the second media content item is captured at the location and time of day corresponding to the event; and causing display of the destination list with the ranked options.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving notification that the at least one user sent the invite to the event comprising the custom event invite media overlay to a third computing device associated with a third user; and causing display of the notification on a display of the computing device.

12 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a token comprising a unique identifier for the invite; and sending the token to a server system wherein the token is correlated with the content corresponding to the event.

13 . A computing device comprising:
a memory that stores instructions; and one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising:
capturing a media content item via a camera device of the computing device;
providing an option to add an event invite media overlay to the media content item;
receiving a selection to add the event invite media overlay to the media content item;
receiving content to be added to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to an event;
adding to the event invite media overlay the content corresponding to the event to generate a custom event invite media overlay;
causing display of the custom event invite media overlay on the media content item;
receiving at least one user to which to send an invite to the event; and
sending, to a second computing device associated with the at least one user, an invite to the event, the invite comprising the custom event invite media overlay and the media content item, wherein the custom event invite media overlay is displayed on the media content item on a user interface of the second computing device.

14 . The computing device of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
receiving a notification indicating that the at least one user joined the event after receiving the invite.

15 . The computing device of claim 13 , wherein the computing device is associated with a first user and the operations further comprise:
causing display of a list of users that have joined the event, a list of users that were invited but have not joined the event, and a list of users invited by a second user that has joined the event.

16 . The computing device of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
causing an indication of the event to display on a map in a user interface on the computing device, the indication of the event appearing on the map at a location corresponding to the event and within a specified time period corresponding to the time of day of the event.

17 . The computing device of claim 16 , the operations further comprising:
causing display of an avatar corresponding to each user that is currently attending the event, with the indication of the event on the map.

18 . The computing device of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
causing display of a chat session between users that have joined the event, wherein a user joining an event can only view messages in the chat session that occurred after the user joined the event.

19 . The computing device of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
capturing a second media content item via the camera device of the computing device; determining that the second media content item is captured at a location and time of day corresponding to the event; ranking options to which to send the second media content item in a destination list wherein a media collection corresponding to the event is ranked higher in the destination list based on determining that the second media content item is captured at the location and time of day corresponding to the event; and causing display of the destination list with the ranked options.

20 . 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:
capturing a media content item via a camera device of the computing device; providing an option to add an event invite media overlay to the media content item; receiving a selection to add the event invite media overlay

Assignees

• Snap Inc

Inventors

• Taitz David
• Mourkogiannis Celia Nicole
• Lipowicz David Zak
• Parrott Nathaniel
• Samaranayake Nayana
• Giacalone Ty

Classifications

• H04L51/52

  for supporting social networking services · CPC title

• H04L51/04 Primary

  Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] · CPC title

• H04L51/10

  Multimedia information · CPC title

• H04M2250/52

  including functional features of a camera · CPC title

• H04M1/72451

  according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications · CPC title