PROJECTS CONTAINING MEDIA DATA OF DIFFERENT TYPES

• US 20100211617A1
• Filed: 02/17/2009
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: JAIN, Jhilmil, Dekhil, Mohamed E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,330,097 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/812
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method comprises receiving, across a network at a computing device, media data. The method further comprises determining to which project associated with a user and hosted on the computing device to save the media data. The method further comprises saving the media data to the project. The project is adapted to store media data of different types.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, across a network at a computing device, media data;

determining to which project associated with a user and hosted on said computing device to save said media data; and

saving said media data to said project;

wherein said project is adapted to store media data of different types.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein determining to which project to save said media data comprises selecting a project from among a plurality of projects associated with a user to which said projects are associated.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising registering the user at a service hosted on said computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising creating a plurality of projects by said user for hosting on said computing device.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the media data comprises receiving media data from a mobile device.

6. The method claim 1 wherein receiving the media data comprises receiving media data from a local computer and from a mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising publishing said project in any of a plurality of selectable formats.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising sharing at least some of said project with another user.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving and saving comments about said project from another user.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising using a local computing device to edit, organize, view or print said project.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving multiple pieces of media data about said project and saving said multiple pieces of media to said project hosted on said computer device, wherein said media data comprises a data type selected from a group consisting of text, image, audio, and video, and wherein at least two of said multiple pieces of media data are of different data types.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically capturing media data based on a user-specified search parameter.

13. A computer readable medium containing an executable program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

capture, as specified by a user, media data;

select, as specified by a user, a project from among a plurality of projects hosted on an on-line service, each project adapted to store media data of different types; and

transmit said captured media data to said on-line service for storing in said selected project.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein said executable program causes the processor to associate an annotation, as specified by a user, with said captured media data.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14 wherein said captured media data is of a media type that differs from said annotation.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein said processor and computer readable medium are provided in a mobile device having cellular communication capability.

17. A computer readable medium containing an executable program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

enable a user to manage projects that are stored on a storage device, each project containing at least one hierarchical data structure, and each hierarchical data structure containing different types of media objects linked together in a hierarchical relationship, said different types including images, audio, video, and text.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17 wherein enabling a user to manage a project includes enabling a user to share a project with another person over a network.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17 wherein said executable program further causes the processor to receive a message over a network and to parse said message to determine which project is associated with said message.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19 wherein said executable program further causes the processor to save data from said message to the project determined to be associated with said message.