INTEGRATED EXPERIENCE OF VOGUE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARED INTEGRATED ONLINE SOCIAL INTERACTION

• US 20100229105A1
• Filed: 04/02/2010
• Published: 09/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: RANGANATH, RAMA, VERT, JOHN, MURARKA, NEEL ISHWAR, ZARAKHOVSKY, EUGENE, STONE, LINDA, MESGAR, EUGENE, FERGUSON, HEATHER, MULCAHY, KATHLEEN, ZANER, MELORA, SARETTO, CESARE JOHN, SANDERS, ERICA, GLATZER, ASTA, SAVAGE, TAMMY
• Application Number:
  US12/753,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20100229105A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A novel application and user interface for facilitating group interactions over a network integrates messaging, file sharing, media playing, journaling, profiles, and gaming into a cohesive environment. The groups facilitated by the invention are persistent and mobile in that a user does not have to recollect and reconfigure the group each time he or she wants to interact with the group online and, while online, the group may be taken from one activity to another without having to disband and reconnect at the second activity. The application is modular so as to be extensible to include other activities and functionalities. In an embodiment, the group interaction application utilizes a peer-to-peer network environment to facilitate network communications between group members.

Claims

1. A system having one or more display devices for providing online group scrapbooking, comprising:

a system display component that displays a scrapbook working area associated with a scrapbook at a first computing device of a first user;

a group display component that displays a current representation of the scrapbook working area of the first user to at least one other user at a second computing device such that the first user and the at least one other user modify the scrapbook; and

a utility component that provides at least one scrapbook tool to the first user and the at least one other user at their respective computing devices.

2. The system of claim 1, the scrapbook working area further comprises a view control component that displays at least one photograph in one of a collage view or single view.

3. The system of claim 1, the system display component further comprises a utility component that displays at least one icon associated with at least one scrapbook tool to the first user.

4. The system of claim 3, the utility component further comprises a supplemental control that allows the first user to add or remove photographs from the scrapbook working area.

5. The system of claim 3, the utility component further comprises a print control that allows users to print the scrapbook.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising an annotation component that displays annotations within the scrapbook working area.

7. The system of claim 6, the annotation component displays the annotations to at least one of the first user or the at least one other user.

8. The system of claim 6, the annotation component further comprises at least one of a drawing control, a balloon control, a note tool, an audio insert tool, or a map control.

9. The system of claim 8, the map control comprises a map display component that utilizes input geographic annotations to organize images geographically.

10. A method for online scrapbooking, comprising:

employing a processor executing computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium to implement the following acts;

displaying a scrapbook working area at a first computing device to a first user;

providing at least one other user at a second computing device with a same annotatable view of the scrapbook working area of the first user such that the first user and the at least one other user modify information in the scrapbook working area; and

providing the first user and the at least one other user at their respective computing devices with at least one tool for modifying the scrapbook.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising adding or removing photographs from the scrapbook.

12. The method of claim 11, adding or removing photographs further comprises dragging and dropping icons associated with files to or from the scrapbook working area.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising annotating photographs displayed in the scrapbook working area.

15. The method of claim 13, displaying annotations to the at least one other user further comprising displaying a map based on the location where one or more photographs were taken.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising changing the view of the scrapbook working area in response to input from the first user.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising printing the scrapbook of the first user.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising synchronously updating the view of the scrapbook presented to the first user and at least one other user.

14. (canceled)