Shutterfly, Inc.

Eugene Chen

Trynne Anne Miller

Wiley H Wang

Preeti Nathan

Su Mien Quek

Marco Santini

Shay Litvak

Chris M Denend

Zhaohui Feng

Mark Levin

Vyacheslav Imeshev

Erik Weitzman

Kelly Berger

Kevin Chang

Adnan Asar

Russ Ennio Muzzolini

David Le

Greg C Bosch

Stephanie I Tang

Mohan A Dasannacharya

John M Josling

Abhishek KiranKumar Sabbarwal

Jennifer Marie Dean

Ira Blas

Ryan Lee

Matthew Holloway

Kris Salvador

A method for proactively creating an image product includes capturing an image of an object in a first environment by a device, storing a library of personalized products each characterized by a product type, automatically recognizing the object in the image as having a product type associated with the library of personalized products, automatically creating a design for the personalized product of the product type using personalized content, automatically displaying the design of the personalized product of the product type incorporating the selected photo in the first environment on the device, and manufacturing a physical product based on the design of the personalized product.

Proactive creation of personalized products

Proactive creation of image-based products

A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.

Cloud storage for image data, image product designs, and image projects

Proactive creation of photo products

A system, a method, and a user interface are described for personalizing and sending stationery/cards. A reminder list on the user interface includes a list of reminder entries each identifying an upcoming event including events generated based on a specified relationship between the user and one or more contacts of the user. A recommendation region is populated one or more recommended stationery/card designs associated with one of the entries in the reminder list. A stationery/card personalization engine provides the user with a set of personalization options related to the selected stationery/card design, and generates personalized stationery based on the selected stationery/card design and the user input.

System, method and graphical user interface for managing contacts and calendars within an online card system

A method for proactively creating an image product includes storing a library of specification terms for image products by a computer system, receiving a command from a user, tokenizing the command into a plurality of tokens by the computer system, matching one or more of the tokens to the specification terms in the library to determine specification parameters for an image product by the computer system, automatically identifying images based on the specification parameters by the computer system, and automatically creating a design for the image product that incorporates at least some of the images identified based on the specification parameters.

A method for producing a photo album includes providing a library of page layouts, selecting a first group of one or more images to be placed in the first page of the photo album, selecting a second group of one or more images to be placed in the second page of the photo album, graphically displaying the first group of one or more images within a first border that represents a first page, graphically displaying the second group of one or more images within a second border that represents a second page, automatically selecting a first page layout from the library of page layouts, and automatically placing the first group of one or more images into the one or more image receiving areas in the first page layout to produce the first page in the photo album.

Systems and methods for creating photobooks

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Belmont, CA, United States of America

Eugene Chen