PRIVATE INTERACTION HUBS

• US 20130227431A1
• Filed: 12/22/2012
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Vasudevan, Lavanya, Thomas, Shawn M., Matthews, Joseph H. III, Schrader, Joseph A., Chen, Ted Tai-Yu, Sarin, Raman K.
• Granted Patent: US 9,325,752 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• 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 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

In embodiments of private interaction hubs, a mobile device has memory storage to maintain hub data that is associated with a private interaction hub, where the hub data includes multiple types of displayable data that is editable by different types of device applications. The memory storage at the device also maintains private data that is displayable and is viewable with one of the device applications. The mobile device also includes a display device to display the multiple types of the hub data in a hub user interface of a hub application. The display device can also display the private data and a subset of the hub data that are both associated with a device application in a device application user interface.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

memory storage configured to maintain hub data that is associated with a private interaction hub, the hub data comprising multiple types of displayable data, wherein each type of displayable data corresponds to a different device application,

the memory storage further configured to maintain private data that is displayable and viewable with at least one of the different device applications; and

a display device configured to display multiple types of the hub data in a hub user interface, the display device further configured to display the private data and a single type of the hub data that is associated with the at least one different device application in a user interface of the at least one different device application.

2. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, wherein the single type of the hub data that is displayable in the hub user interface is selectable to initiate the single type of the hub data being displayed in the device application user interface in conjunction with the private data.

3. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, wherein the single type of the hub data that is displayable in the device application user interface is selectable to initiate the single type of the hub data being displayed in the hub user interface with the multiple types of the hub data.

4. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, wherein the hub user interface is configured to display the multiple types of only the hub data.

5. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the private interaction hub associates members for private interaction, each of the members having an associated mobile device; and

the multiple types of the hub data is viewable in the hub user interface that is displayable at each of the associated mobile devices of the members of the private interaction hub.

6. A mobile device as recited in claim 5, further comprising a processing system to implement a hub operating system service that is configured to integrate the device applications with an operating system of the mobile device to implement the private interaction hub;

and wherein

the hub operating system service is configured to;

receive social network updates for one or more members of the private interaction hub; and

aggregate the social network updates for display in the hub user interface.

7. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, further comprising a processing system to implement a hub operating system service that is configured to integrate a third-party application with the private interaction hub, and wherein third-party application data is displayable in the hub user interface.

8. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, further comprising a processing system to implement a hub operating system service that is configured to manage multi-user interactive updates for a multi-user activity that is coordinated in the private interaction hub.

9. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, further comprising a processing system to implement a hub operating system service that is configured to:

initiate an invitation to join the private interaction hub as an SMS message that is communicated by a hub management service to a new member mobile device;

receive hub metadata that associates the new member in the private interaction hub based on an account identifier associated with the new member.

10. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, wherein a hub application and the at least one device application both acquire the same subset of the hub data that is maintained at the mobile device in the memory storage.

11. A mobile device, comprising:

memory storage configured to maintain hub data that is associated with a private interaction hub, the hub data comprising multiple types of the hub data that is displayable in a hub user interface

a processing system to implement an hub operating system service that is configured to;

integrate with an operating system of the mobile device to implement the private interaction hub that associates members for private interaction of the hub data;

receive social network updates for one or more of the members of the private interaction hub; and

a display device configured to display the social network updates in the hub user interface in conjunction with the multiple types of the hub data.

12. A mobile device as recited in claim 11, wherein the hub operating system service is configured to:

initiate an invitation to join the private interaction hub as a message that is communicated by a hub management service to a new member mobile device;

receive hub metadata that associates a new member in the private interaction hub based on an account identifier associated with the new member.

13. A mobile device as recited in claim 11, wherein a social network update that is displayable in the hub user interface is selectable to initiate the social network update being displayed in a social network user interface that is associated with the social network update.

14. A method, comprising:

maintaining hub data that is associated with a private interaction hub, the hub data comprising multiple types of displayable data that is editable by different types of device applications;

maintaining private data that is displayable and viewable with at least one of the device applications;

displaying the hub data in a hub user interface of a hub application, the hub user interface displaying the multiple types of the hub data; and

displaying the private data and a subset of the hub data that is associated with the same device application as the private data in a device application user interface.

15. A method as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

receiving a user selection of the subset of the hub data that is displayed in the hub user interface; and

responsive to the user selection, displaying the subset of the hub data in the device application user interface in conjunction with the private data.

16. A method as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

receiving a user selection of the subset of the hub data that is displayed in the device application user interface; and

responsive to the user selection, displaying the subset of the hub data in the hub user interface with the multiple types of the hub data.

17. A method as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

receiving social network updates for one or more members of the private interaction hub; and

aggregating the social network updates for display in the hub user interface in conjunction with the multiple types of the hub data.

18. A method as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

managing multi-user interactive updates for a multi-user activity that is coordinated in the private interaction hub.

19. A method as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

initiating an invitation to join the private interaction hub as an SMS message that is communicated to a mobile device associated with a new member; and

receiving hub metadata that associates the new member in the private interaction hub based on an account identifier associated with the new member.

20. A method as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

associating a member of the private interaction hub with multiple other private interaction hubs based on a single sign-on that identifies the member.