US 12,216,982 B2
Generating and utilizing digital media clips based on contextual metadata from digital environments
Arunsunai Anbukarasi Anbalagapandian, San Francisco, CA (US); Devin Mancuso, Alameda, CA (US); Rituparna Vincent, Alamo, CA (US); and Viksit Gaur, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/657,571.
Prior Publication US 2023/0315971 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 40/106 (2020.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/197 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 40/106 (2020.01) [G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/197 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
extracting a content item comprising digital content data and content metadata based on a detected user interaction with the content item;
capturing contextual signals from one or more active digital environments on a client device at a time of extracting the content item;
generating contextual metadata for the content item based on the contextual signals from the one or more active digital environments;
generating a digital media clip file by associating the content item comprising the digital content data and the content metadata with the contextual metadata generated from the contextual signals from the one or more active digital environments;
identifying a first collection of digital media clip files from a plurality of collections of digital media clip files by determining a correspondence value between the digital media clip file and the first collection of digital media clip files, the correspondence value being determined based on an analysis of:
the content metadata and the contextual metadata of the digital media clip file; and
collection content metadata and collection contextual metadata associated with the first collection of digital media clip files; and
associating the digital media clip file with the first collection of digital media clip files based on the correspondence value.