Proactive creation of image-based products
AssigneeShutterfly, Inc.
InventorsEugene Chen, Preeti Nathan, Trynne Anne Miller, Wiley H. Wang
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Abstract
A method for proactively creating an image-based product includes identifying a group of images and automatically creating a design for a image-based product without receiving a user's request if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. The image-based product incorporates a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the image-based product to a user for preview and making a physical manifestation of the image-based product based on the design.
Claims20
A method for proactively creating an image-based product, comprising:
- identifying a group of images by a computer system from at least one of a plurality of image aggregation sources;
- automatically determining, by the computer system, if number of the images in the group is within a predetermined range, wherein the predetermined range depends on the image aggregation sources or types of image-based products;
- automatically creating, by the computer system, a design for an image-based product that incorporates one or more images in the group if the number of images in the group is determined to be within the predetermined range associated with the image aggregation source(s) for the group of images or a type of the image-based product;
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- presenting the design of the image-based product to a user for preview.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.