METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COLLABORATIVE EVENT-SHARE SERVICE

• US 20110161423A1
• Filed: 12/27/2009
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: PRATT, JAMES, Everett, Sarah Peterson, Sullivan, Marc
• Granted Patent: US 8,862,663 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information

Abstract

A method, a system and a computer readable medium for supporting collaborative media sharing among users at an event are disclosed. For example, the method creates an event-share group relating to an event, and provides an event tag to a plurality of members of the event-share group, where the event tag uniquely identifies the event-share group or the event. The method receives a captured media from at least one of the plurality of members, wherein the event tag is attached to the captured media and provides the captured media to the plurality of members.

Claims

1. A method for supporting media sharing among a plurality of users via a communication network, comprising:

creating an event-share group relating to an event;

providing an event tag to a plurality of members of the event-share group, where the event tag uniquely identifies the event-share group or the event;

receiving a captured media from at least one of the plurality of members, wherein the event tag is attached to the captured media; and

providing the captured media to the plurality of members.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the captured media is associated with user tag information that is created by a member of plurality of members.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user tag information is created by a member who captured the captured media.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the user tag information is created by a member who received the captured media.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

terminating the event-share group in response to an indication of an end of the event.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication network comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network or a wireless network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the captured media is stored by an application server deployed in the communication network.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein user tag information associated with the captured media is stored by the application server.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request from a user who wishes to join the event-share group; and

verifying that the user has subscribed to an event-share service feature prior to providing the event tag to the user.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the user tag information comprises information that is customizable by the plurality of members.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein the indication comprises at least one of:

a decline in receiving captured media, a decline in receiving user tags, or a detection of a geographic separation of the plurality of members.

12. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving voting information pertaining to captured media or user tag information indicative of whether the captured media or user tag information comprise undesirable content; and

removing the captured media or user tag information that is indicated as being undesirable in the voting information.

13. A method for supporting media sharing via a communication network, comprising:

transmitting a request to participate in an event-share group relating to an event;

receiving an event tag which uniquely identifies the event-share group or the event; and

transmitting a captured media to an application server deployed in the communication network, wherein the event tag is attached to the captured media.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the captured media is associated with user tag information that is created by a member of a plurality of members of the event-share group.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the user tag information is created by a member who captured the captured media.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the communication network comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network or a wireless network.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the user tag information associated with the captured media is stored by the application server.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the user tag information comprises information that is customizable by the member who captured the captured media.

19. A method for supporting media sharing via a communication network, comprising:

transmitting a request to participate in an event-share group relating to an event;

receiving an event tag which uniquely identifies the event-share group or the event; and

receiving captured media from an application server deployed in the communication network, wherein the event tag is attached to the captured media.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

sending voting information pertaining to the captured media or user tag information associated with the captured media indicative of whether the captured media or the user tag information comprise undesirable content.