CONTENT SHARING INTERFACE FOR SHARING CONTENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

• US 20120110064A1
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chen, Rita, Ben-Yair, Shimrit, Terleski, Jonathan, Smarr, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US13/164,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110064A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1044 Group management mechanisms management of multicast group membership H04L12/185; reconfiguring of node membership in a computing system to eliminate errors G06F11/1425
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting a graphical representation of a content sharing interface of a social networking service on a display, receiving first user input to the content sharing interface, in response to the first user input, expanding the content sharing interface to include an expanded content input area and a distribution interface, the expanded content input area displaying a graphical representation of digital content that is to be distributed, receiving second user input to the distribution interface, the second user input indicating contact(s) to which the digital content is to be distributed, in response to receiving the second user input, displaying icon(s) within the distribution interface, and transmitting a post data set to the server computing system, the post data set comprising digital content data and distribution data.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a server computing device that is operable to serve a computer program to one or more client computing devices over a network, the computer program comprising instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the client computing device, cause the client computing device to perform operations for distributing digital content for display across a network, the operations comprising;

presenting a graphical representation of a content sharing interface of a social networking service on a display;

receiving first user input to the content sharing interface;

in response to the first user input, expanding the content sharing interface to include an expanded content input area and a distribution interface, the expanded content input area displaying a graphical representation of digital content that is to be distributed;

receiving second user input to the distribution interface, the second user input indicating one or more contacts to which the digital content is to be distributed;

in response to receiving the second user input, displaying one or more icons within the distribution interface, each icon of the one or more icons being a graphical representation of the one or more contacts;

receiving third user input to the content sharing interface, the third user input comprising a user instruction to distribute the digital content; and

in response to the third user input, transmitting a post data set to the server computing system, the post data set comprising digital content data and distribution data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein an icon of the one or more icons corresponds to a social circle of the user within the social networking service, the social circle defining a subset of the one or more contacts.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein an icon of the one or more icons corresponds to a second social networking service that the user participates in.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the second social networking service comprises a micro-blogging social networking service.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the second social networking service comprises a blogging service.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein an icon of the one or more icons corresponds to at least one contact that is to receive the digital content via email.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise displaying web page digital content within the web page, wherein the content sharing interface displays a summary of the web page digital content within the expanded content input area.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise displaying one or more digital content selection icons within the expanded content selection area.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving fourth user input, the fourth user input indicating a selection of an icon of the one or more digital content selection icons; and

in response to receiving the fourth user input, displaying a digital content selection interface through which a user can select additional digital content for distribution.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more digital content selection icons comprise a digital image selection icon, a digital video selection icon, a link selection icon and a map selection icon.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more digital content selection icons are displayed in the content sharing interface prior to receiving the first user input.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation of the content sharing interface is displayed on a desktop display of the client computing device.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation of the content sharing interface is displayed as a toolbar within a web browser application executed on the client computing device.

14. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

presenting a graphical representation of a content sharing interface of a social networking service on a display;

receiving first user input to the content sharing interface;

in response to the first user input, expanding the content sharing interface to include an expanded content input area and a distribution interface, the expanded content input area displaying a graphical representation of digital content that is to be distributed;

receiving second user input to the distribution interface, the second user input indicating one or more contacts to which the digital content is to be distributed;

in response to receiving the second user input, displaying one or more icons within the distribution interface, each icon of the one or more icons being a graphical representation of the one or more contacts;

receiving third user input to the content sharing interface, the third user input comprising a user instruction to distribute the digital content; and

in response to the third user input, transmitting a post data set to the server computing system, the post data set comprising digital content data and distribution data.

15. A computer-implemented method comprising:

presenting a graphical representation of a content sharing interface of a social networking service on a display;

receiving first user input to the content sharing interface;

in response to the first user input, expanding the content sharing interface to include an expanded content input area and a distribution interface, the expanded content input area displaying a graphical representation of digital content that is to be distributed;

receiving second user input to the distribution interface, the second user input indicating one or more contacts to which the digital content is to be distributed;

in response to receiving the second user input, displaying one or more icons within the distribution interface, each icon of the one or more icons being a graphical representation of the one or more contacts;

receiving third user input to the content sharing interface, the third user input comprising a user instruction to distribute the digital content; and

in response to the third user input, transmitting a post data set to the server computing system, the post data set comprising digital content data and distribution data.