Patent Document ID: 8433993
Application ID: 12491217

Base Claim:
1. A method for rendering context aware multimedia content, comprising: identifying a plurality of multimedia content uploaded for rendering; examining the uploaded multimedia content to determine metadata associated with each of the plurality of multimedia content; identifying contextual information associated with the multimedia content from the metadata; performing a grouping of the multimedia content into a plurality of groups based on the contextual information; and integrating the one or more groups into one or more photo stories, wherein the one or more photo stories are defined as content rich documents for rendering the groups of multimedia content, wherein the integrating further includes identifying and integrating a theme for rendering each of the photo stories based on the contextual information of the multimedia content in the respective group, and integrating one or more of a timeline map, a minimap, one or more of other photo stories and other contextual map, the timeline map, minimap, other photo stories and contextual map configured to be rendered alongside the one or more photo stories and are interactive so as to provide additional information related to temporal, geographical, contextual and social aspect related to the one or more events captured within the multimedia content or the one or more photo stories.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein integrating the one or more groups further includes providing permission to a group of users to access the multimedia content rendered in the photo stories, the permission based on status of a user within the group of users.