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US 8,412,589 B2Granted
Photobook engine powered by blog content
AssigneeShutterfly, Inc.
InventorsCraig Jorasch, Wiley H. Wang
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Abstract
A computer system for creating a design for an image product includes servers that can identify a blog page that includes an image, text, or designs, automatically incorporate at least one of the image, text, or the design object in the blog page into the design of an image product, and allow a user to review the design of the image product. The servers communicate with a printing finishing facility that makes a physical image product according to the design of the image product.
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A method for creating a design for an image product, comprising:
- storing a predetermined criterion in a computer system for automatic image product creation;
- automatically identifying, based on the predetermined criterion by the computer system, a blog page that includes an image, text, or designs to be used in an image product, wherein the predetermined criterion is based at least in part on numbers of views received by blog pages, or on numbers of votes received by blog pages, images, text or design objects on the blog pages;
- automatically incorporating, by the computer system, at least one of the image, text, or a design object in the blog page into a layout of the image product to create a design of the image product, wherein the step of automatically incorporating comprises obtaining numbers of views received by blog pages, or obtaining numbers of votes on blog pages, images, text, or design objects, wherein the step of automatically incorporating comprises selecting one of the blog pages based on the number of views, or selecting one of the blog pages, or at least one of the images, text, or the design objects on the blog pages to be used in the image product based on the number of votes;
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- allowing a user to review the design of the image product created by the computer system, wherein the computer system is configured to communicate with a printing finishing facility at which a physical image product is to be made according to the design of the image product.
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A computer system for creating a design for an image product, comprising:
- one or more servers configured to store a predetermined criterion in a computer system for automatic image product creation, automatically identify, based on a predetermined criterion, a blog page that includes an image, text, or designs to be used in an image product,
- wherein the predetermined criterion is based at least in part on numbers of views received by blog pages, or on numbers of votes received by blog pages, images, text or design objects on the blog pages,
- wherein the one or more servers are configured to obtain numbers of views received by blog pages, or to obtain numbers of votes on blog pages, images, text, or design objects,
- wherein the one or more servers are configured to select one of the blog pages based on the number of views, or to select one of the blog pages, or at least one of the images, text, or the design objects on the blog pages based on the number of votes,
- wherein the one or more servers are configured to automatically incorporate at least one of the image, text, or the design object in the blog page into a layout of the image product, and to allow a user to review the design of the image product created by the one or more computer servers, wherein the one or more servers is configured to communicate with a printing finishing facility that is configured to make a physical image product according to the design of the image product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.