FAVORITES LIST SHARING

• US 20100235788A1
• Filed: 03/10/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Bono, Joseph Andrew, Mohammed, Abdul Haadi, Wang, Wendy Wenjing, Zappa, Eric J., Steinbok, Jeffrey E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,230,238 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/811
• 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: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Techniques are described to share items from a favorites list. In an implementation, a list entry for a favorites list may be associated with content from a third party source by a first user. The favorites list may be presented in a webpage to display the list entry and the associated content to another user. A control operable to share the list entry with the other user may be exposed with the list entry. Responsive to operation of the control, the content and/or related data may be obtained from the third party source and data may be stored to associate the list entry including the obtained content with the other user. In at least some embodiments, the control is operable by a single-click to cause the sharing of the list entry.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting a favorites list item of a user with content from an affiliate provider in a webpage;

exposing a control operable to share the favorites list item with another user; and

responsive to operation of the control;

obtaining data from the affiliate provider that is related to the content presented with the favorites list item; and

generating a corresponding favorites list item for the other user based upon the obtained data.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein:

the data obtained from the affiliate provider includes the content; and

the generating of the corresponding favorites list item comprises storing data to describe the favorites list item including the obtained content.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein:

the data obtained from the affiliate provider includes data describing at least a location where the content is available; and

the generating of the corresponding favorites list item includes storing data to describe the favorites list item including a link to the location where the content is available.

4. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising providing script to a client with the webpage that is operable in response to selection of the control to cause the obtaining and generating.

5. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising exposing an application programming interface (API) that is callable by a client in response to operation of the control to cause the obtaining and generating.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the webpage is a profile page of the user accessible to the other user over a network.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the webpage is a personal page of the user presented to the other user in conjunction with one or more services from a service provider.

8. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising enabling the user to configure the favorites list item to include the content from the affiliate provider through interaction with one or more services available from a service provider.

9. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising:

authenticating the other user to an account to provide access to one or more services from a service provider; and

accessing the account to perform the generating of the corresponding favorites list item for the other user by storing data to define the corresponding favorites list item with the account.

10. A method as described in claim 9, wherein the data stored with the account to define the corresponding favorites list item includes the data related to the content that is obtained from the affiliate provider.

11. A method as described in claim 1, wherein operation of the control comprises a single-click.

12. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the content comprises one or more of an image, audio, video, a description of the content, and content metadata.

13. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by a client device, cause the client device to:

output a webpage corresponding to a user that includes a favorites list of the user;

expose a control operable to share an item in the favorites list presented in the webpage with content from an affiliate provider to another user; and

responsive to interaction of the other user with the control;

obtain the content from the affiliate provider; and

add an item to a favorites list of the other user that includes the content obtained from the affiliate provider.

14. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 13, wherein the interaction with the control is a single-click.

15. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 13, wherein the control is operable by the other user to recreate multiple list items in the favorites list of the user including said item by storing data to define each of the multiple list items with an account corresponding to the other user.

16. One or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 13, wherein the webpage corresponds to a page of the user that is output at the client device through interaction of the other user over a network with a social networking service available from a service provider.

17. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed via the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

detect selection of a control operable to share one or more items in a favorites list created by a first user;

identify content from one or more affiliate providers that is associated by the first user with the one or more items;

interact with the one or more affiliate providers to obtain data describing the content;

recreate the one or more items in a favorites list of a second user; and

associate the one or more items in the favorites list of the second user with the content based upon the obtained data.

18. A system as described in claim 17, wherein to associate the one or more items with the content comprises including the content with data stored to define the one or more items in the favorites list of the second user.

19. A system as described in claim 17, wherein:

to identify content that is associated with the one or more items comprises extracting identifiers corresponding to the one or more items from a webpage in which the favorites list is presented; and

to interact to obtain data describing the content comprises performing a lookup on the one or more affiliate providers using the extracted identifiers.

20. A system as described in claim 17, wherein to recreate the one or more items in a favorites list of the second user comprises:

extracting data defining the one or more list items through a lookup on an account associated with the first user; and

combining the extracted data defining the one or more list items with the obtained data describing the content to create corresponding list items in the favorites list of the second user via an account associated with the second user.