SHARING FILES ON A COMPUTER THROUGH USE OF URIS

• US 20130283187A1
• Filed: 05/13/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Laird-McConnell, Tom, Cheng, Lili, Marcjan, Cezary, MacLaurin, Matthew B., Ickman, Steven W.
• Application Number:
  US13/892,569
• Publication Number:
  US 20130283187A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a computing event with respect to a file stored in a data repository of a personal computing device. An assignor component automatically assigns a uniform resource identifier to the file responsive to the receiver component receiving the computing event with respect to the file, wherein at least a portion of content of the file is reviewable by way of a web browser through utilization of the uniform resource identifier.

Claims

1. A method executed by an operating system of a personal computing device, the method comprising:

displaying an icon that represents a file;

detecting selection of the icon;

in response to detecting the selection of the icon, displaying a user-selectable option, the user-selectable option indicating that the file is shareable by way of a social networking application;

detecting selection of the user-selectable option; and

responsive to detecting the selection of the user-selectable option, uploading the file to the social networking application for sharing thereon.

2. The method of claim 1, the personal computing device being a smart phone.

3. The method of claim 2, the file being an image.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to detecting the selection of the icon, displaying a plurality of other user-selectable options that respectively correspond to a plurality of applications, each application in the plurality of applications configured to share the file with a contact of a user of the personal computing device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving an indication of the file being accessed on the social networking application, the indication including at least one comment regarding the image.

6. The method of claim 1, the file being a word processing document.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an indication that the file is to be saved on the personal computing device; and

responsive to receiving the indication, assigning a uniform resource identifier to the file, the file being accessible by way of the uniform resource identifier.

8. A computing device, comprising:

a display screen;

a processor; and

a memory that comprises an operating system that is executed by the processor, the operating system of the computing device configured to perform acts comprising;

displaying an icon representing a file on the display screen;

detecting that the icon has been selected;

responsive to detecting that the icon has been selected, displaying a selectable option on the display screen, the selectable option indicating that the file is shareable by way of a social networking application;

detecting that the selectable option has been selected; and

responsive to detecting that the selectable option has been selected, uploading the file to the social networking application for sharing thereon.

9. The computing device of claim 8 being a smart phone.

10. The computing device of claim 9, the display screen being a touch-sensitive display screen, wherein detecting that the icon has been selected comprises detecting selection of the icon by way of the touch-sensitive display screen.

11. The computing device of claim 10, the file being a word processing document stored on the computing device.

12. The computing device of claim 10, the file being an image stored on the computing device.

13. The system of claim 12, the acts performed by the operating system further comprising:

responsive to detecting that the icon has been selected, displaying a plurality of other selectable options on the display screen, each option in the plurality of other selectable options corresponding to a respective application, each application configured to share the file with a contact of a user of the computing device.

14. The system of claim 12, the acts performed by the operating system further comprising:

receiving an indication that a contact of a user of the computing device has set forth a comment pertaining to the file; and

displaying a notification on the display screen indicating that the contact of the user of the computing device has set forth the comment pertaining to the file.

15. The computing device of claim 8 being a laptop computer.

16. The computing device of claim 8, the file being a video file.

17. The system of claim 8, wherein the icon indicates a version of the file.

18. A smart phone having an operating system installed thereon, the operating system configured to perform acts comprising:

causing a first icon to be displayed on a touch-sensitive display of the smart phone, the first icon being representative of an image stored on the smart phone;

detecting selection of the first icon by way of the touch-sensitive display;

responsive to detecting selection of the first icon, displaying a second graphical icon on the touch-sensitive display, the second graphical icon comprising a plurality of selectable options corresponding to respective applications usable to share the image;

detecting selection of a selectable option in the plurality of selectable options by way of the touch-sensitive display, the selectable option corresponding to a social networking application; and

responsive to detecting the selection of the selectable option, uploading the image to the social networking application for sharing thereon.

19. The smart phone of claim 18, wherein the applications comprise an email application and an instant messaging application.

20. The smart phone of claim 18, the acts further comprising:

receiving an indication that a contact of a user of the smart phone has set forth a comment pertaining to the image; and

displaying a notification on the touch-sensitive display screen indicating that the contact of the user of the smart phone has set forth the comment pertaining to the image.