AUTOMATIC SHARING OF EVENT CONTENT BY LINKING DEVICES

• US 20120324589A1
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Nukala, Chandrasekhar, Callaghan, David M., Bawel, Paul Frederick
• Granted Patent: US 9,130,763 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• 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 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• 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 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Embodiments enable content sharing using event notifications that include a global identifier and a private identifier. The event notifications are sent to potential participants to an event. Potential participants that accept the event notification or otherwise request to join the event use the private identifier to submit content to a content sharing service. Based at least on the private identifiers associated with event participants, the content from event participants is selectively shared among the other event participants.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory area associated with a mobile computing device of a user, said memory area storing user data; and

a processor programmed to;

communicate with one or more devices to identify potential participants to an event based on the user data stored in the memory area;

send event invitations to the identified potential participants of the event, each of said event invitations including a global identifier and one of a plurality of private identifiers, each of said plurality of private identifiers corresponding to one or more of the identified potential participants;

receive an acceptance of the sent event invitation from one or more of the identified potential participants to join the event as event participants, said received acceptance including the global identifier;

associate the event participants with the event based on the global identifier;

receive notification of content created by at least one of the event participants for association with the event, said received notification including the private identifier corresponding to said at least one of the event participants; and

selectively share the content with one or more of the event participants based at least on the private identifiers associated with the event participants.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to create content from the user and share the created content with one or more of the event participants based at least on the private identifiers associated with the event participants.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to communicate with the one or more devices to identify the potential participants to the event by:

identifying one or more devices proximate to the mobile computing device; and

communicating with the identified devices to identify the potential participants to the event.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the identified one or more devices store data describing users of the identified one or more devices, and wherein the processor is further programmed to compare the user data stored in the memory area with the data describing users of the identified one or more devices.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the user data describes affiliations or interests of the user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to identify the event by identifying an event proximate to the mobile computing device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to send the event invitations by notifying a content sharing service of the identified potential participants.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising means for combining event-related content from a plurality of devices based on the global identifier and the plurality of private identifiers included in the event invitations.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to selectively share the content by transmitting the content to said one or more of the event participants via a peer-to-peer network or transmitting the content to a content sharing service.

10. A method comprising:

identifying, by a computing device, potential participants to an event;

notifying, by the computing device, the identified potential participants of the event, said notifying including sending a global identifier and one of a plurality of private identifiers to each of the identified potential participants, each of said plurality of private identifiers being associated with one or more of the identified potential participants;

receiving a request from one or more of the identified potential participants to join the event as event participants, said received request including the global identifier;

associating the event participants with the event based on the global identifier;

receiving content from at least one of the event participants for association with the event; and

selectively sharing, by the computing device, the received content with one or more of the event participants based at least on the private identifiers associated with the event participants.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein notifying the identified potential participants comprises notifying the identified potential participants located remotely from a location associated with the event.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein identifying the potential participants to the event comprises identifying the potential participants based on one or more of the following:

participant preferences, participant locations, and selection by an event organizer.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein notifying the identified potential participants of the event includes transmitting a token representing the global identifier and said one of a plurality of private identifiers.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein selectively sharing the received content with one or more of the event participants comprises storing the received content in a storage area shared by the one or more of the event participants.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising storing the received content in a public storage area or a private storage area depending on the private identifier of said at least one of the event participants.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

defining permissions for each of the event participants, said permissions controlling access by the event participants to the received content; and

applying a digital rights management policy to the received content before selectively sharing the received content with the one or more of the event participants.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein defining the permissions comprises defining the permissions based on sharing preferences received from each of the event participants, said sharing preferences identifying the event participants with which to share content.

18. One or more computer storage media embodying computer-executable components, said components comprising:

a search component that when executed causes at least one processor to identify potential participants to an event and to identify an event organizer associated with the event;

a token component that when executed causes at least one processor to notify the potential participants identified by the search component of the event by sending a global identifier and one of a plurality of private identifiers to each of the identified potential participants, each of said plurality of private identifiers being associated with one or more of the identified potential participants; and

a pairing component that when executed causes at least one processor to receive a request from one or more of the identified potential participants to join the event as event participants, said received request including the global identifier, said pairing component further associating the event participants with the event based on the global identifier;

a communications interface component that when executed causes at least one processor to receive content from at least one of the event participants for association with the event; and

a content component that when executed causes at least one processor to combine the received content with content from the event organizer and to selectively share the combined content with one or more of the event participants based at least on the private identifiers associated with the event participants.

19. The computer storage media of claim 18, wherein the token component sends a calendar invitation to the potential participants of the event, said calendar invitation including the global identifier and said one of a plurality of private identifiers.

20. The computer storage media of claim 18, wherein the communications interface component receives the content during one or more of the following time periods:

before occurrence of the event, during occurrence of the event, and after occurrence of the event.