Patent Document ID: 9886420
Application ID: 14679652

Base Claim:
1. A computer system for creating photo stories, comprising: a computer storage configured to store a plurality of photo story design templates characterized by attributes of multiple pages and numbers of photos that the photo story design templates are respectively configured to incorporate across the multiple pages therein; and a computer processor configured to obtain a plurality of photos and metadata associated with the photos, to analyze the plurality of photos, or the metadata, or a combination thereof by the computer system to produce an analysis result, to subdivide the plurality of photos to produce a group of photos based on the analysis result, to automatically select a photo story design template from the plurality of photo story design templates based, at least in part, on number of photos in the group of photos to be placed across the multiple pages, and to incorporate the group of photos into the photo story design template across the multiple pages to produce a photo story.

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Claim 11:
11. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the metadata include a relationship between people, wherein computer processor is configured to extract the relationship from the metadata associated with the group of photos, and to incorporate the group of photos into the photo story design template at least in part based on the relationship between people.