Drawing tool used with social network computer systems

• US 20070016689A1
• Filed: 07/14/2006
• Published: 01/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PIGS In Flight Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bebo Incorporated (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Birch, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 7,707,251 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/241
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A social network drawing system allows users of the social network to communicate with text as well as pictures that are posted on a web site. The social network program includes a user interface having drawing tools and a drawing area. The user selects the desired tools which include a marker, marker color, marker size and canvas size to prepare the illustration using a computer mouse. The completed illustrations are posted on the posting page which allows other users to view and respond with additional illustrations to the posted drawings.

Claims

1. A social network drawing system on a server computer in a computer network comprising:

a social network program that includes a drawing page having a drawing tool for creating illustrations and a posting page for posting the illustrations created on the drawing page;

a first client computer coupled to the network that displays the web page and uses the drawing program to create a first illustration and post the first illustration on the first portion of the web page; and

a second client computer coupled to the network that displays the web page and uses the drawing program to create a second illustration and post the second illustration on the first portion of the web page.

2. The social network drawing system of claim 1 wherein the drawing tool is a marker tool for drawing lines on the drawing page.

3. The social network drawing system of claim 2 wherein the drawing page includes a marker size tool for adjusting the-width of lines drawing with the marker tool.

4. The social network drawing system of claim 2 wherein the drawing page includes an eraser tool for removing the lines drawn with the marker tool.

5. The social network drawing system of claim 2 wherein the drawing page includes a color tool for changing a color of the line drawn with the marker tool.

6. The social network drawing system of claim 1 wherein the drawing tool includes a text tool that allows text to be added to the second portion of the web page.

7. The social network drawing system of claim 6 wherein the first client computer uses the drawing program to create text messages and post the text messages on the first portion of the web page.

8. The social network drawing system of claim 1 wherein the drawing program includes an undo command for removing a line from the first illustration and a clear all command for removing all lines from the first illustration.

9. The social network drawing system of claim 1 wherein the web page includes a first button for posting a response to the first illustration and a second button for posting a response to the second illustration.

10. The social network drawing system of claim 9 wherein the web page includes a blocking system that screens the illustrations for a set of inappropriate predefined shapes wherein if the blocking system detects that the illustration includes at least one of the set of inappropriate shapes the blocking system prevents the illustration from being posted.

11. A drawing system comprising:

a computer network;

a server computer that is coupled to the network;

a social network program that runs on the server computer and provides a web page for posting a plurality of illustrations on a first portion of the web page;

an drawing program that is integrated into the web page for creating the illustrations on a second portion of the web page;

a first client computer coupled to the network that displays the web page and uses the drawing program to create a first illustration and post the first illustration on the first portion of the web page; and

a second client computer coupled to the network that displays the web page and uses the drawing program to create a second illustration and post the second illustration on the first portion of the web page.

12. The social network drawing system of claim 11 wherein the drawing tool is a marker tool for drawing lines on the drawing page.

13. The social network drawing system of claim 12 wherein the drawing page includes a marker size tool for adjusting the width of lines drawing with the marker tool.

14. The social network drawing system of claim 12 wherein the drawing page includes an eraser tool for removing the lines drawn with the marker tool.

15. The social network drawing system of claim 12 wherein the drawing page includes a color tool for changing a color of the line drawn with the marker tool.

16. The social network drawing system of claim 11 wherein the drawing tool includes a text tool that allows text to be added to the second portion of the web page.

17. The social network drawing system of claim 16 wherein the first client computer uses the drawing program to create text messages and post the text messages on the first portion of the web page.

18. The social network drawing system of claim 11 wherein the drawing program includes an undo command for removing a line from the first illustration and a clear all command for removing all lines from the first illustration.

19. The social network drawing system of claim 11 wherein the web page includes a first button for posting a response to the first illustration and a second button for posting a response to the second illustration.

20. The social network drawing system of claim 19 wherein the web page includes a blocking system that screens the illustrations for a set of inappropriate predefined shapes wherein if the blocking system detects that the illustration includes at least one of the set of inappropriate shapes the blocking system prevents the illustration from being posted.