USER PHOTO HANDLING AND CONTROL

• US 20090313254A1
• Filed: 06/17/2008
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Johnson, David, Stewart, Erin, Honein, Jad, Karagiannis, Elia, Mattox, Gregory T. JR.
• Granted Patent: US 9,703,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6263 during internet communication, e.g. revealing personal data from cookies

Abstract

Architecture for centralized photo storage for user profiles with consent and cardkey system integration. A picture picker can connect to a cardkey/security badge photo system to allow users to choose from badge photos. Consent is also captured by the picker to allow user photos to be used in other applications. Other applications can interact with the photo storage using standard web services and APIs for the user profile and user profile change log services. Centralized storage and insured accessibility enable applications to consume from the photo storage. The photo storage can also function as a virtual directory with distributed storage as utilized for geographical deployments. Extensions of the photo storage can include an add-in for a personal information manager application and a management agent for web-based collaboration and document management to copy photos from/to other directory structures.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented photo management system, comprising:

a share component for storing user photos as shared items for collaboration processes;

a security component for applying security to the user photos according to consent criteria; and

a picker component for managing state of the user photos in the share component based on the consent criteria.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the picker component processes the state to add a photo to or remove a photo from the share component.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the picker component includes a user interface and shared components for uploading a photo from a card key database to the share component.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the picker component is accessible via a delegate control on a user profile page.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the picker component includes a configuration manager for reading configuration data from and writing configuration data to a collaboration list.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the picker component allows an external application to access the user photos via a profile web service or a search query web service and allows an internal application to access the user photos via a profile service object model or a search query service object model.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a migration component for migrating photos from a legacy or earlier version system to a new system, the migration based on conditions imposed by one or more business rules.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rules component for populating the store component with the user photos according to business rules.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a cleanup component for deleting a user photo from the share component in response to deletion of a user profile.

10. A computer-implemented photo management system, comprising:

a share component for storing user photos as shared items for collaboration processes;

a security component for applying security to the user photos in the share component according to consent criteria;

a picker component for managing state of the user photos in the share component based on the consent criteria, the state defines if the photo is added to or removed from the share component; and

a cleanup component for deleting a user photo from the share component in response to deletion of a user profile.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the picker component reads a user profile property to determine if the consent criteria indicate that user consent has been given.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the picker component includes a user interface and shared components for uploading a photo from a card key database to the share component, the picker component is accessible via a delegate control on a user profile page.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the picker component allows an external application to access the user photos via a profile web service or a search query web service and an internal application to access the user photos via a profile service object model or a search query service object model.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the share component, security component, picker component, and cleanup component are part of a collaboration and data management server that hosts a user profile page in association with the stored user photos and facilitates distributed storage and retrieval of the photos.

15. A computer-implemented method of managing photos, comprising:

storing user photos as a library of shared photo items for collaboration processes;

applying security to the user photos in the library according to consent criteria; and

managing state of the stored user photos based on the consent criteria.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising capturing photo consent using a picker component to process access to the photos by other applications.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising providing access to a cardkey system for upload of a security photo as a shared photo item.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

exposing access to the user photos using an application that employs a profile web service or a search query web service; and

exposing access to the user photos using an application that employs a service object model

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising storing and retrieving the user photos based on current user information.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising uploading user photos based on accessible photo locations of a client provider and based on an external data source based on an external photo provider.