Oracle International Corporation

Picateer, Inc.

Picateers, Inc.

Tie Zhong

Xiang Liu

Lawrence W Jacobs

Shehzaad Nakhoda

Fredric Scott Goell

Shu Ling

Xiaoli Qi

A system and method for automated layout of collaboratively selected images within a compilation for printing, viewing, etc. The images may be drawn from any number of albums owned by various users, and have associated rankings reflecting the users' behavior regarding the images (e.g., viewing, printing, recommending). Some number of images is selected for the compilation (e.g., the highest ranked images) and the images are arranged into chapters that correspond to the albums in which they are located. Within each chapter, images are ordered by time and grouped into clusters of related images (e.g., close in time, same event, same subject). Page templates are used to determine how many images to place on a page, and may be designed or redesigned so that the prominence (e.g., size) of each image corresponds to its ranking. The chapters, pages and/or images may be augmented with titles or captions.

System and method for automated layout of collaboratively selected images

A system and method for sharing images and collaborating in the selection of images likely to be interest to a user. Images (e.g., photos) are shared within a community of users, by allowing user to access any unrestricted community image, recommend an image to another user, assemble compilations of any images the user can access, etc. Various metrics regarding user activity are tracked, such as how often an image was viewed, downloaded, recommended, included in a compilation, printed, edited, etc. The metric values may be normalized, and then weighted and combined to produce, for each image, a ranking or rating personalized to an individual user. Ratings of images for a user may be used to order them for electronic presentation, assemble a set of images for an electronic compilation (e.g., an online album) or physical compilation (e.g., a photo book, a yearbook) or for some other purpose.

System and method for collaborative image selection

A system and method for communicating a side effect of a data request, from a data server and through one or more caches, inline with a response to the request. Instead of sending a separate notification of the side effect (e.g., instructions to invalidate data cached in one or more caches), the notification is included in the response. As the response traverses caches on its way to the requestor, each cache applies the side effect with the proper timing. Thus, data invalidation may be performed prior to caching data included in the request and/or forwarding the response toward the requester. A final cache configured to serve the response to the requestor may remove the side effect notification before serving the response.

System and method for inline invalidation of cached data

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