Capturing and sharing images with mobile device users including for a limited duration of time

• US 10,140,514 B1
• Filed: 06/15/2016
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Viewlogic Wireless LLC
• Original Assignee: IP Holdings Incorporated (IP Holdings LLC)
• Inventors: Rao, Sunil K., Rao, Raman K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ayotunde, Ayodeji O
• Application Number:
  US15/182,992
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 4555501, 4555561
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00153 for sharing images with a selected individual or correspondent
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3225 of data relating to an image, a page or a document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3261 of multimedia information, e.g. a sound signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/14 Systems for two-way working H04N7/12, H04N7/173 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

Enable image based communication between mobile devices and servers. Propagating an image entity to a specific device/user and or to a plurality of devices/user enabling the people networks to be viable. The digital image entity comes into existence at a specified time, exists for a desired duration of time, and ceases to exist at a set time. A virtual network of people joined together for a specific purpose such as social networks, professional networks, enterprise networks, family networks, friends networks and other networks. Each user in such people networks has one or more profiles and is enabled to form multiple people networks. Each image entity each further comprises of one or more sub image entities that are connected to a specific image entity by their own sub relationships. The visual experience is formed by viewing a series of super images that are refreshed and updated at an optimal frequency.

Claims

1. A mobile device associated with a user affiliated with a virtual network, the mobile device comprising:

one or more cameras configured to acquire an image;

one or more processors configured to construct an image entity using the acquired image and an image profile of the acquired image;

and

a transmit unit configured to send the image entity to one or more servers, wherein the sent image entity is accessible to one or more recognized users of the virtual network via one or more user devices and/or applications in communication with the one or more servers.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the sent image entity is accessible by one or more recognized users of the virtual network based on the image profile.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the image profile defines a relationship between the acquired image and one or more other images.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the image profile defines a relationship identifying the one or more users receiving the image entity.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the one or more users receiving the image entity is based at least in part on past user behavior acquired on the mobile device and a potential user behavior.

6. The mobile device of claim 1 further comprising a controller interface configured to update the image profile of the image entity.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the controller interface is a touch screen configured to activate the image entity and launch an application to access a web and/or Internet content.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the image entity exists in the network for a period of time.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the sent image entity is accessible in the virtual network for a period of time specified in the image profile and the period of time is provided to an image profile associated with a sent image having a relationship with the sent image entity.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the acquired image in the image entity is encrypted before the acquired image is sent to the one or more users of the virtual network.

11. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein the image entity is associated with an image encryption level that provides information indicating the one or more users of the virtual network having access to the image entity.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a set of instructions that are executable by at least one processor of mobile device to cause the mobile device to perform a method comprising:

acquiring an image using one or more cameras of the mobile device;

constructing an image entity using the acquired image and an image profile of the acquired image, wherein constructing the image entity comprises;

creating a relationship between the acquired image and one or more other images; and

providing for transmission to one or more servers the image entity to be accessible to one or more users of a virtual network for a limited duration of time.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions that are executable by at least one processor of mobile device to cause the mobile device to further perform:

providing the image profile for recognizing one or more users of the virtual network.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions that are executable by at least one processor of mobile device to cause the mobile device to further perform:

defining in the image profile the relationship to include a sequence of the acquired image and the one or more other images.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions that are executable by at least one processor of mobile device to cause the mobile device to further perform:

defining in the image profile a relationship identifying the one or more users of the virtual network receiving the image entity.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the one or more users receiving the image entity is based at least in part on past user behavior acquired on the mobile device and potential user behavior.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions that are executable by at least one processor of mobile device to cause the mobile device to further perform:

setting a period of time the image entity exists in the virtual network.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein setting the period of time an image exists in the virtual network includes:

setting the period of time in the image profile of the image entity and providing the period of time to an image profile associated with a image having a relationship with the image entity.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the virtual network is a social network.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein encrypting the image includes:

associating a security level with the image entity that provides information indicating the one or more users of the virtual network having access to the image entity.

21. A method performed by at least an application of a mobile device having one or more processors, the method comprising:

acquiring an image using an interface to one or more cameras of the mobile device;

constructing an image entity using the acquired image, one or more other images, and an image profile of the acquired image;

transmitting the image entity to one or more servers to update and/or refresh display of the constructed image entity, wherein the constructed image entity is accessible to one or more recognized users of a virtual network via one or more client devices through applications in communication with the one or more servers.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

providing the image profile for recognizing one or more users of the virtual network, wherein the virtual network is a social network;

storing in at least one memory location a plurality of user profiles for each of the one or more users to be accessible by the one or more servers.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

defining in the image profile a relationship between the acquired image and one or more other images including rendering the first image of the sequence based on a user desired sequence.

24. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

defining in the image profile a relationship identifying the one or more users of the virtual network receiving the image entity.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more users receiving the image entity is based at least in part on past user behavior acquired on the mobile device and potential user behavior.

26. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

setting a period of time the image entity exists in the virtual network.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein setting the period of time an image exists in the virtual network includes:

setting the period of time in the image profile of the transmitted image entity and providing the period of time to an image profile associated with a acquired image having a relationship with the transmitted image entity.

28. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

adding at least one or more of a time, a text, and/or a location stamp.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

associating a security level with the image entity that provides information indicating the one or more users of the virtual network having access to the image entity;

propagating the image entity to the one or more users of the virtual network; and

updating the display of at least one or more images of the image entity.