US 11,995,045 B1
Customized rule-based collections
Tomasz Charytoniuk, San Francisco, CA (US); and Dmitry Shapiro, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/853,632.
Application 16/853,632 is a continuation of application No. 14/607,057, filed on Jan. 27, 2015, granted, now 10,628,392.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/932,210, filed on Jan. 27, 2014.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/21 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/21 (2019.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
presenting a user interface to allow a user of a social networking service to create a new collection for collecting a set of content items for the user;
upon a user request to create the new collection, adding the new collection to one or more lists of collections associated with a user profile of the user, and presenting, in the user interface, the new collection as part of the one or more lists of collections associated with the user profile at the social networking service, wherein the one or more lists of collections comprise one or more first collections having the user as an author and one or more second collections having one or more other users of the social network service as one or more authors, wherein the user interface presents (i) each collection of the one or more first collections with an identifier of the user as the author, and (ii) each collection of the one or more second collections with respective one or more identifiers of one or more other users of the social network service as respective one or more authors;
in response to receiving, via the user interface, a user selection of an edit collection button with respect to the new collection, allowing the user to add an additional content item to the new collection from the list of collections associated with the user profile; and
in response to receiving, via the user interface, a user selection of a share collection button with respect to the new collection, allowing the user to share the new collection with one or more other users of the social networking service, wherein sharing the new collection with the one or more other users causes a notification to be provided to the one or more other users according to one or more rules.