CENTRALIZED MEDIA HANDLING

• US 20140096032A1
• Filed: 10/01/2012
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Mayblum, Amir, Gutierrez, Kim M., Lee, Chunkwok
• Granted Patent: US 8,935,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/752
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

A system is described that includes a media management application for automatically scanning messages in a message inbox and new messages that are sent from or received by the message inbox to identify content, such as pictures, songs, etc., for tagging each message based on content attributes, and for storing the messages and content in a “shoebox” relative to the content attributes.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

scanning a set of messages within an electronic messaging service;

comparing content of each message of the set of messages to one or more content attributes;

tagging each message that matches or exceeds at least one of the content attributes with a tag from a tag list;

electronically storing each tagged message in a storage unit generated based on at least one tag associated with the message; and

providing a user interface that substantially simultaneously presents a representation of the storage units, a sub-menu, and the messages that were tagged.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein scanning the messages is performed on a conversation that is a set of messages between users.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the storage units is a tile menu that displays a tile for each storage unit, and

wherein the user interface includes the sub-menu that lists a set of remote users, wherein each remote user is selectable, and

further wherein the selection of any remote user manipulates the tile menu in accordance with the tags used from the tag list for messages and content transferred between the selected remote user and currently loaded account.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

building a knowledge base using tagging information generated from the scanning, comparing, and tagging of the messages.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

scanning and tagging messages using the knowledge base.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the tag list is scalable.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the content attributes include domain designations, file extensions, data file size limits, key words, metadata, location signatures, and codes.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium including a set of computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:

scanning a set of messages within an electronic messaging service;

comparing content of each message of the set of messages to one or more content attributes;

tagging each message that matches or exceeds at least one of the content attributes with a tag from a tag list;

electronically storing each tagged message in a storage unit generated based on at least one tag associated with the message; and

providing a user interface that substantially simultaneously presents a representation of the storage units, a sub-menu, and the messages that were tagged.

9. The medium of claim 8, wherein scanning the messages is performed on a conversation that is a set of messages between users.

10. The medium of claim 8, wherein the representation of the storage units is a tile menu that displays a tile for each storage unit, and

wherein the user interface includes the sub-menu that lists a set of remote users, wherein each remote user is selectable, and

further wherein the selection of any remote user manipulates the tile menu in accordance with the tags used from the tag list for messages and content transferred between the selected remote user and currently loaded account.

11. The medium of claim 8, further comprising:

building a knowledge base using tagging information generated from the scanning, comparing, and tagging of the messages.

12. The medium of claim 11, further comprising:

scanning and tagging messages using the knowledge base.

13. The medium of claim 8, wherein the tag list is scalable.

14. The medium of claim 8, wherein the content attributes include domain designations, file extensions, data file size limits, key words, metadata, location signatures, and codes.

18. The device of claim 8, wherein the tagging module builds a knowledge base using tagging information generated from the scanning, comparing, and tagging of the messages.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the tagging module scans and tags messages using the knowledge base.

15. A device, comprising:

a memory that stores a media management application, wherein the application includes;

a tagging module that scans a set of messages within an electronic messaging service, compares content of each message of the set of messages to one or more content attributes, and tags each message that matches or exceeds at least one of the content attributes with a tag from a tag list;

a storing module that generates a storage unit based on at least one tag associated with the message and electronically stores each tagged message in the storage unit; and

an interface module that provides a user interface that substantially simultaneously presents a representation of the storage units, a sub-menu, and the messages that were tagged.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the tagging module scans the messages within a conversation that is a set of messages between users.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the representation of the storage units is a tile menu that displays a tile for each storage unit, and

wherein the user interface includes the sub-menu that lists a set of remote users, wherein each remote user is selectable, and

further wherein the selection of any remote user manipulates the tile menu in accordance with the tags used from the tag list for messages and content transferred between the selected remote user and currently loaded account.

20. The device of claim 15, wherein the tag list is scalable.

21. The device of claim 15, wherein the content attributes include domain designations, file extensions, data file size limits, key words, metadata, location signatures, and codes.