Method of exchanging photos with interface content provider website

• US 20110150362A1
• Filed: 09/09/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Brahmbhatt, Milan S., Shah, Anish M., Mitra, Christopher A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,990,338 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/286
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/162 Delete operations erasing in storage systems G06F3/0652
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00228 Image push arrangements, e.g. from an image reading device to a specific network destination push-based network services H04L67/55
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0023 Image pull arrangements, e.g. to a multifunctional peripheral from a networked computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2179 Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32422 Reprocessing messages, e.g. in case the intended destination is busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32475 Changing the format of the data, e.g. parallel to serial or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0065 Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera

Abstract

A photo is received from a mobile device. The photo is stored at an intermediary server. The photo is formatted at the intermediary server for at least one content provider website. The photo is transmitted to the at least one content provider website. Another method downloads a photo. The method receives in an intermediary web server, content from a content provider website. The content includes at least a photo. The intermediary server determines if the photo is new. If the photo is new, the intermediary server determines if the photo is properly formatted for the mobile device client program and sends the content including the photo to a user device including the client program.

Claims

1. A method for uploading a photo, comprising:

receiving at an intermediary server a photo from a mobile device;

storing the photo at the intermediary server;

formatting, at the intermediary server, the photo for at least one content provider website; and

transmitting the formatted photo to the at least one content provider website.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the at least one content provider website is at least one social networking website, and the step of formatting formats the photo according to photo requirements set by that social networking website.

3. The method as defined in claim 2, wherein the step of storing photos includes caching the photograph at the intermediary server for a predetermined time period following uploading and deleting the photo at the end of the predetermined time period.

4. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step of caching photos includes caching the photograph at the intermediary server for a predetermined time period following uploading to a content provider and deleting the photo at the end of the predetermined time period.

5. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step of formatting includes formatting the photo for a plurality of different content provider websites, the photograph formatted according to the respective photo requirements of each content provider web site prior to sending to each respective website.

6. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the photos are cached at the intermediary server for storage and later uploading to different systems without requiring the photo to be uploaded again from the mobile device.

7. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the photo is uploaded from a mobile device to the intermediary server with the identity (ID) of said at least one content provider website.

8. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the intermediary server sends a message with a photo ID back to the mobile device.

9. The method as defined in claim 8, wherein the photo ID identifies a location or pointer to the location where the photo is stored at the network server.

10. The method as defined in claim 8, wherein the mobile device associates the photo ID with the name of the photo stored in the mobile device.

11. The method as defined in claim 10, where the mobile device sends the photo ID to the intermediary server and the network server responds to the photo ID to retrieve the photo from the cache and forward it to another content provider website.

12. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the intermediary web server temporarily stores the photo for a predetermined time period before deleting the photo from storage.

13. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the intermediary server determines whether the photo is within the requisite limitations of the target content provider website.

14. The method as defined in claim 13, wherein the requisite limitations are at least one of dimensions and size.

15. The method as defined in claim 13, wherein if the requisite limitations are met, the back-end portion sends the photo through to a site of the target content provider website.

16. The method as defined in claim 12, wherein if the limitations are not met, the photo is reformatted in the back end portion to resize the photo, whereby the resized photo is formatted for the target content provider website.

17. The method as defined in claim 16, wherein in order to down sample and/or scale the photo to a target size, a resize factor is determined.

18. The method as defined in claim 17, wherein the algorithm used to determine the resize factor is:

x/100=((t−

f)/(kc))̂

(0.5)

Where

x is the resize percent,

t is the target size in bytes,

f is the fudge factor for the file size,

k is a constant factor, and

c is the original file'"'"'s size in bytes.

20. The method as defined in claim 16, wherein intermediary service pulls the photo from an RSS feed and processes the RSS feed to a standard format for the aggregation services client before being sent to the mobile device.

19. A method for downloading a photo to a device, comprising the steps of:

receiving, in an intermediary web server, content from a content provider website, the content including at least a photo;

determining in the intermediary server if the content is new;

if the content is new, determining in the intermediary server if the photo is properly formatted for a client program; and

sending the properly formatted content including the photo to the device.

21. A method for uploading photos, comprising:

receiving at an intermediary web server a photo from a mobile device;

caching the photo at in the intermediary web server

sending a message to the mobile device with a photo ID associated with the photo to the mobile device for the mobile device to use to identify the cached photo.