Context-Based Content Navigation With Automated Curation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The overwhelming volume of images and content managed by users, combined with the time-consuming and delayed process of professional content generation and presentation, leads to individual management challenges and inefficiencies in news delivery.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing machine learning and image processing to automatically or assistively curate content collections based on context values, enabling users to navigate and search content through machine vision and metadata analysis, with features like ephemeral messages and content collections.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If professional journalists manually filter and generate news stories, then information quality and analysis are improved, but time delay between event occurrence and information delivery increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation qualityVSAvoidtime delay
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-service content curation where machine learning algorithms automatically filter, select, and organize news content from multiple sources without requiring manual intervention from journalists, thus eliminating time delays while maintaining information quality through algorithmic filtering

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual process of journalists reading, analyzing, and selecting news stories with an automated machine learning system that uses natural language processing and classification algorithms to perform the same functions instantly, substituting human labor with automated computational mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If users manually manage and organize large volumes of images and content, then personalization and control are improved, but operational complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovepersonalizationVSAvoidoperational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides automated self-service content organization where machine learning algorithms automatically categorize, tag, and arrange images and content based on visual recognition and metadata analysis, eliminating the need for users to manually manage large volumes of content while maintaining personalized organization through learned user preferences

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the manual content management process into an automated system that changes parameters such as content categorization, tagging, and organization based on visual features, metadata, and machine learning models, converting complex manual operations into automated parameter adjustments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If automated machine learning systems curate content collections, then information delivery speed is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent curation speedVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex content curation task into independent functional modules including image processing, natural language processing, machine learning classification, and content organization, allowing each component to handle specific aspects of curation independently, thus managing overall system complexity through modular architecture

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces machine learning models and algorithms as intermediary components between raw content sources and final curated collections, where these intermediaries automatically process, filter, and organize content, simplifying the overall system architecture by using specialized intermediate layers that handle complexity internally

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12455920B2Content navigation with automated curation
Publication Date: 2025.10.28 SNAP INC
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AI summary

Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system communicates at least a portion of a first content collection to a first client device, and receives a first selection communication in response, the first selection communication identifying a first piece of content of the first plurality of pieces of content. The server analyzes analyzing the first piece of content to identify a set of context values for the first piece of content, and accesses accessing a second content collection comprising pieces of content sharing at least a portion of the set of context values of the first piece of content. In various embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate the content collections.