Online publishing of multimedia content

• US 20080103906A1
• Filed: 09/19/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gurvinder Singh
• Original Assignee: Gurvinder Singh
• Inventors: Singh, Gurvinder
• Application Number:
  US11/901,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20080103906A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

The method and system disclosed herein publishes user created multimedia content including voice, video, text, pictures, and a combination thereof on one or more publication virtual spaces, simultaneously. A client application, provided on a mobile device, creates and transfers the multimedia content to a publishing service. A protocol is provided for synchronizing user preferences of the publication virtual spaces between the client application and the publishing service. The multimedia content may be transferred as a single multimedia file, data segments, or electronic mail attachments to a back end service of the publishing service via a front end service. The back end service creates a multimedia object from the transferred multimedia content. The back end service splices targeted advertisements with the multimedia object. The multimedia object is transferred from the back end service to the front end service and then published on the publication virtual spaces chosen by the user.

Claims

1. A method of publishing multimedia content created by a user of a mobile device on one or more publication virtual spaces simultaneously, comprising the steps of:

providing a client application on said mobile device of said user;

creating said multimedia content by the user using said client application;

providing a publishing service, wherein said publishing service comprises a front end service and a back end service;

synchronizing user publishing information between the client application and the publishing service using a protocol, wherein said user publishing information includes user preferences of said publication virtual spaces;

transferring said user created multimedia content from said mobile device to said back end service via said front end service, wherein said step of transferring the user created multimedia content is performed by the client application;

creating a multimedia object from said transferred multimedia content using the back end service;

transferring said multimedia object from the back end service to the front end service; and

publishing the multimedia object by the front end service on one or more of the publication virtual spaces simultaneously;

whereby the user created multimedia content is published on one or more of the publication virtual spaces by the publishing service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia object is spliced with targeted advertisements by the back end service based on profile of the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the back end service sends targeted advertisements to the client application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user created multimedia content is one of an audio file, a video file, an image file, a text file, and any combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user created multimedia content is published using one of internet and intranet capabilities of the mobile device via a wireless network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user created multimedia content is prerecorded multimedia content and published at a future point in time.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user created multimedia content is reviewed by the user prior to transferring the user created multimedia content to the back end service via the front end service.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the user created multimedia content is transferred to the front end service as electronic mail attachments.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user created multimedia content is transferred to the front end service as data segments created by the client application.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein each of said data segments are tagged with segment identifiers.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said tagged data segments are reassembled in a predetermined sequence using said segment identifiers by the back end service to create the multimedia object.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of publishing the multimedia object is performed by a single input action of the user.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said single input action of the user comprises one of a click and a touch of a button provided on a graphical user interface of the mobile device, one of a voice command, and a turn of a scroll wheel on the mobile device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of publishing the multimedia object includes one of pod casting, video casting, photo casting, text casting, voice blogging, photo blogging, text blogging, and a combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the publication virtual spaces are one or more of third party social networking websites, blog sites, video blog sites, social book marking websites, shopping websites, merchandising websites, and a plurality of websites that publish user created multimedia contents.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the publication virtual spaces are configured by the user and said configuration is stored on the mobile device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the configuration of the publication virtual spaces are dynamically retrieved from the back end service by the client application.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the user creates an account with the publishing service, wherein said publishing service account comprises login information of the user for the publication virtual spaces.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said publishing service account comprises a user profile utilized for targeting advertisements.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the publishing service generates advertising statistics based on viewing information of the multimedia object, wherein said viewing information is collected each time the multimedia object is viewed on the publication virtual spaces.

21. A system for publishing multimedia content created by a user of a mobile device on one or more publication virtual spaces simultaneously, comprising:

a client application on said mobile device for creating said multimedia content and selecting one or more of said publication virtual spaces by said user;

a publishing service for publishing a multimedia object on one or more of said selected publication virtual spaces, comprising;

a front end service for receiving said user created multimedia content and a list of the selected publication virtual spaces from said client application on the mobile device via a network, and publishing said multimedia object on the selected publication virtual spaces via said network; and

a back end service for creating the multimedia object from the user created multimedia content.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the user created multimedia content is transferred from the client application to said back end service via said front end service as one of a single multimedia file, data segments, and one of a single and multiple multimedia files comprising electronic mail attachments.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the client application comprises a graphical user interface for creating and transferring the user created multimedia content to said publishing service.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein the client application comprises a segmentation module, wherein said segmentation module partitions the user created multimedia content into data segments.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein said data segments are tagged with segment identifiers using the segmentation module.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein said tagged data segments are reassembled in a predetermined sequence by a data reassembler using said segment identifiers to create the multimedia object.

27. The system of claim 21, wherein the client application comprises an advertising module for displaying advertisements to the user on the mobile device.

28. The system of claim 21, wherein the client application comprises a publication virtual space list module for enlisting the publication virtual spaces for publishing of the user created multimedia content.

29. The system of claim 21, wherein the client application comprises a first user authentication module for authenticating the user to publish the user created multimedia content.

30. The system of claim 21, wherein the client application uses a media recorder for recording the multimedia content on the mobile device.

31. The system of claim 21, wherein said publishing service further comprises a database for storing user profiles, user preferences, advertisement profiles, advertisements, and user created multimedia content.

32. The system of claim 21, wherein said publishing service further comprises a second user authentication module for authenticating the user on the publishing service.

33. The system of claim 21, wherein said back end service comprises an advertisement selection tool for selecting targeted advertisements to be spliced with the multimedia object.

34. The system of claim 21, wherein said back end service comprises an advertisement splicer for splicing targeted advertisements with the multimedia object.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein said advertising splicer further sends targeted advertisements to the client application.

36. A computer program product comprising computer executable instructions embodied in a computer-readable medium, wherein said computer program product comprises:

a first computer parsable program code for creating multimedia content by a user;

a second computer parsable program code for synchronizing user publishing information between a client application on a mobile device and a publishing service using a protocol, wherein said user publishing information includes user preferences of publication virtual spaces;

a third computer parsable program code for transferring said user created multimedia content from said client application to a back end service via a front end service of said publishing service;

a fourth computer parsable program code for creating a multimedia object from said transferred multimedia content in said back end service;

a fifth computer parsable program code for transferring said multimedia object from the back end service to said front end service; and

a sixth computer parsable program code for publishing the multimedia object by the front end service on one or more of said publication virtual spaces simultaneously.