System and method of presenting media content

• US 20080235592A1
• Filed: 03/21/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Trauth, Kurt
• Granted Patent: US 7,917,853 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00

Abstract

A method of presenting media content is disclosed that includes providing a first view including multiple image cells to a destination device of a first user, where at least one cell of the multiple image cells includes an image. The method further includes automatically collecting a second image from a third party website associated with a second user and providing a second view to the destination device. The second view includes the multiple image cells having the image and includes the second image.

Claims

1. A method of presenting media content, the method comprising:

providing a first view including multiple image cells to a destination device of a first user, wherein at least one cell of the multiple image cells includes an image;

automatically collecting a second image from a third party website associated with a second user; and

providing a second view to the destination device, the second view including the multiple image cells having the image and including the second image.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving permission of the first user before inserting the second image into one of the multiple image cells of the second view.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second image is inserted into one of the multiple image cells automatically upon collection.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple image cells are arranged in date order.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple image cells comprise rows and columns of image cells, and wherein each row is associated with a web site location.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically collecting a third image from a website associated with a third user; and

providing a third view to the destination device, the third view including the multiple image cells having the image and the second image and including the third image.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first user, the second user, and the third user comprise a computer-based social network.

8. A system to present media content, the system comprising:

an interface to a network;

logic coupled to the interface, the logic to generate a first view including multiple image cells, wherein at least one image cell of the multiple image cells includes an image, the logic to automatically collect a second image from a third party website associated with a second user, the logic to generate a second view including the multiple image cells having the image and including the second image.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising a memory accessible to the logic to store the image and to store a thumbnail image of the second image and a pointer to the website associated with the second image.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the logic is adapted to provide the second view to a destination device via the network.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the logic accesses a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed associated with the website to identify modified content.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the logic retrieves a third image from the website associated with the second viewer in response to identifying modified content.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the logic is to retrieve audio data related to the website associated with the second user.

14. A method of presenting media content, the method comprising:

providing a first graphical user interface (GUI) to a destination device, the first GUI to receive one or more identifiers of one or more other users forming a social network associated with a user account, each identifier within the social network associated with one or more websites accessible to the one or more other users;

automatically collecting data related to media content from a selected third party website of the one or more websites; and

generating a second GUI including multiple image cells, wherein at least one cell of the multiple image cells includes an image related to the collected data or to the media content.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing the second GUI to the destination device.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the data comprises an image.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the data comprises a link to an audio file.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the data comprises a link to a multimedia data stream.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the social network comprises a first user associated with the destination device and a second user associated with at least one of the one or more websites.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the multiple image cells are arranged in date order.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the multiple image cells are arranged in a user-specified order.

22. A graphical user interface (GUI) to present media content, the GUI comprising:

multiple selectable cells arranged according to a preference of a first user, wherein a first cell includes an image related to media content from the first user and a selectable cell includes an image related to media content from a source other than the first user, wherein a selection of the selectable cell causes a first display window to display the media content associated with the source, and wherein a second selection of the selectable cell causes a second display window to display a configuration menu.

23. The GUI of claim 22, wherein the configuration menu comprises one or more selectable menu options to adjust an arrangement of images within the multiple selectable cells.

24. The GUI of claim 22, wherein the multiple selectable cells are arranged in chronological order according to a date that the image was added to the multiple selectable cells.

25. The GUI of claim 22, wherein the configuration menu includes a freeze cell control option to prohibit changes to the image associated with the selectable cell.

26. The GUI of claim 22, wherein the first selection comprises a left click operation associated with a pointing device and the second selection comprises a right click associated with the pointing device.

27. The GUI of claim 22, wherein the matrix includes rows of the multiple selectable cells and wherein a first row of the matrix includes one or more images related to the first user, and wherein the second row of the matrix includes one or more images related to a second user.

28. A processor-readable medium having instructions to cause a processor to execute a method of presenting media content, the method comprising:

providing a first view including multiple image cells to a destination device of a first user, wherein at least one cell of the multiple image cells includes an image;

automatically collecting a second image from a third party website associated with a second user; and

providing a second view to the destination device, the second view including the multiple image cells having the image and including the second image.

29. The processor-readable medium of claim 28, wherein the second image is associated with multimedia content.

30. The processor-readable medium of claim 28, wherein the second image is associated with audio data.