US 11,729,252 B2
Content collection navigation and autoforwarding
Jacob Andreou, Santa Monica, CA (US); Darryl Hudgin, Marina Del Rey, CA (US); and Evan Spiegel, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/372,948.
Application 17/372,948 is a continuation of application No. 16/356,765, filed on Mar. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,064,011.
Application 16/356,765 is a continuation of application No. 15/083,976, filed on Mar. 29, 2016, granted, now 10,270,839.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046078 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/06 (2022.01); H04L 51/10 (2022.01); G06F 16/738 (2019.01); G06F 16/438 (2019.01); H04L 67/75 (2022.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); H04L 51/02 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/06 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 16/4393 (2019.01); G06F 16/739 (2019.01); H04L 51/02 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/75 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for network communication of image based content collections, the method comprising:
storing, at a database of a server computer system, a plurality of content messages from a plurality of client devices, wherein a corresponding piece of content from each content message is associated with a display time less than a threshold display time;
generating, by the server computer system, a first plurality of content collections from the plurality of content messages, each content collection of the first plurality of content collections comprising associated content from one or more content messages of the plurality of content messages;
communicating, from the server computer system to a first mobile device, interface information for each content collection of the first plurality of content collections;
receiving, from the first mobile device, a first story request associated with a first selection, at the first mobile device, of a first content collection of the first plurality of content collections;
receiving, from the first mobile device, an autoforward communication associated with completion of a presentation of the first content collection at the first mobile device; and
automatically communicating a second content collection from the server computer system to the first mobile device for automatic display on the first mobile device in response to receipt of the first story request and the autoforward communication, wherein the second content collection is selected automatically by the server computer system, and wherein each respective piece of content is sorted for presentation based on an individual quality score and a weighting based on at least one of content, location, or time associated with the respective piece of content, and wherein each individual quality score is based on a set of quality metrics applied to the respective piece of content.