Event planning in a content sharing platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021226904-A1
Application number	US-202117222247-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 5, 2021
Priority date	Jul 5, 2019
Publication date	Jul 22, 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:
causing display, on a user interface of a first computing device, a menu overlaid on a media content item, the menu comprising an interface element to add an event invite media overlay to the media content item; receiving, by the first computing device, a selection of the interface element to add the event invite media overlay to the media content item; adding to the event invite media overlay, by the first computing device, content corresponding to an invitation to attend an event, to generate a custom event invite media overlay; automatically resizing the custom invite media overlay from an original size to a resized custom event invite media overlay based on the content added to the event media overlay; causing display of the resized custom event invite media overlay overlaid on the media content item, and sending, to a second computing device, the invitation to attend the event comprising the resized custom event invite media overlay overlaid on the media content item.

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 a user associated with the second computing device joined the event after receiving the invite.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first computing device is associated with a first user and the method further comprises:
displaying 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:
displaying an indication of the event on a map in the user interface on the first 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:
displaying 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:
displaying 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 a 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 displaying 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 displaying the notification on a display of the first 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 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying a message in a chat session between users that have joined the event, the message indicating that a new user has joined the event and adding the new user to the chat session.

14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a media collection is associated with the event and further comprising:
in response to determining that a new user has joined the event, automatically generating a graphic comprising an avatar of the new user and a messaging indicating that the new user has joined the event; and adding the generated graphic to the media collection.

15 . A computing device comprising:
a memory that stores instructions; and one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising: causing display, on a user interface of the computing device, a menu overlaid on a media content item, the menu comprising an interface element to add an event invite media overlay to the media content item; receiving a selection of the interface element to add the event invite media overlay to the media content item; adding to the event invite media overlay, content corresponding to an invitation to attend an event, to generate a custom event invite media overlay; automatically resizing the custom invite media overlay from an original size to a resized custom event invite media overlay based on the content added to the event media overlay; causing display of the resized custom event invite media overlay overlaid on the media content item; and sending, to a second computing device, the invitation to attend the event comprising the resized custom event invite media overlay overlaid on the media content item.

16 . The computing device of claim 15 , wherein the computing device is associated with a first user and the operations further comprise:
displaying 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.

17 . The computing device of claim 15 , the operations further comprising:
displaying an indication of the event on a map in the 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; and displaying 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 15 , the operations further comprising:
displaying 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 15 , the operations further comprising:
capturing a second media content item via a 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 displaying 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:
causing display, on a user interface of the computing device, a menu overlaid on a media

Assignees

• Snap Inc

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H04L51/52

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• G09G2370/027

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• G09G2354/00

  Aspects of interface with display user · CPC title

• H04L51/10

  Multimedia information · CPC title

• G06F3/14

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title