US 7,321,919 B2
System and method for collaborative image selection
Lawrence Jacobs, Redwood City, Calif. (US); Shehzaad Nakhoda, Mountain View, Calif. (US); Xiang Liu, Fremont, Calif. (US); and Tie Zhong, San Jose, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Picateers, Inc., San Mateo, Calif. (US)
Filed on May 23, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/438,948.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/683573, filed on May 23, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0271691 A1, Nov. 30, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—205  [709/224] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of selecting images for a personalized compilation, the method comprising:
establishing a community of users, wherein a given user may be a member of multiple communities;
storing a set of images submitted to the community by the users;
facilitating sharing of the images between the users;
facilitating a recommendation of a first image to a first user from a second user by:
accepting the recommendation from the second user; and
communicating the recommendation to the first user;
wherein the recommendation does not comprise the first image;
maintaining different electronic compilations derived from the shared images for different users in the community;
automatically ranking a subset of the images to reflect their estimated interest for a third user, wherein the ranking is based on user activities with the images, and wherein the user activities comprise recommendations of the images; and
presenting the subset of images in an order determined by the ranking;
wherein a different subset of images is presented to a different user based on different automatic rankings.