Automatic Content Creation Based on Group Collaboration Spaces

• US 20120079396A1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Neer, Robert, Goran, Charles
• Granted Patent: US 9,319,227 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/745
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference

Abstract

Devices described herein are configured to receive a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users and provide the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space. In some embodiments, the group of users is a social network or social network group. The devices are further configured to automatically create a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based on the post, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users;

providing the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space; and

automatically creating a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based on the post, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the application is one of a photo gallery, an event list, a calendar, a poll repository, a list repository, an audio library, or a video library and the content item is a corresponding one of a photo, an event, a calendar appointment, a poll question, a list, an audio file, or a video file.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic creating comprises automatically creating, for each member of the group of users, a content item associated with an application of each device of each member based on the post.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the post is responsive to a selection of one of a plurality of controls of the user interface associated with the collaboration space, each control associated with a different application or content item type.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the automatic creating is based at least in part on which control of the plurality of controls is selected.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to receiving the post, analyzing the post to determine whether the post is associated with an application or content item type.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating a database associated with the collaboration space to include the post and/or a database associated with the application to include the content item.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the post to a database of a server associated collaboration space to update the database to include the post.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the group of users comprises a social network or a group within the social network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the application is an application provided by the social network that is separate and distinct from the collaboration space.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a new collaboration space associated with the group of users.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface associated with the collaboration space appears as a representation of a paper note with one or more posts in the collaboration space displayed in the paper note as text and/or graphics.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving input that graphically manipulates a representation of the collaboration space to merge the collaboration space with a second collaboration space to create a resulting, merged collaboration space.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the resulting, merged collaboration space is automatically associated with an application or content item type.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically enhancing the post with additional information based on characteristics of at least one member of the group of users.

16. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a plurality of executable instructions configured to be implemented by the one or more processors to perform operations including;

receiving a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users;

in response to receiving the post, analyzing the post to determine whether the post is associated with an application type or a content item type;

providing the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space; and

automatically creating a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based at least in part on the analyzing, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the analyzing is based at least in part on user-configurable parameters.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the application is one of a photo gallery, an event list, a calendar, a poll repository, a list repository, an audio library, or a video library and the content item is a corresponding one of a photo, an event, a calendar appointment, a poll question, a list, an audio file, or a video file.

19. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a post to a collaboration space shared by a social network group of a social network;

providing the post to the social network group through a user interface associated with the collaboration space; and

automatically creating a content item based on the post, the content item being associated with an application provided by the social network to at least one member of the social network group, the application being provided separately and distinctly from the collaboration space.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the application is one of a photo gallery, an event list, a calendar, a poll repository, a list repository, an audio library, or a video library and the content item is a corresponding one of a photo, an event, a calendar appointment, a poll question, a list, an audio file, or a video file.