LOCATION-BASED ASSET SHARING

• US 20150058749A1
• Filed: 08/21/2013
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Hwu, David Chung Wu, Markovic, Dejan
• Granted Patent: US 10,397,345 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Methods and systems for location-based asset sharing are provided. In an embodiment, a method stores a publication in a data store accessible by a server system, the publication including a publication location and a distance restriction. The method receives a request for the asset and then determines, by the server system, to provide the asset in response to the request. The determining is based on a requesting location associated with the request, the publication location, and the distance restriction, wherein according to the distance restriction, the asset is only provided to the requesting location if a distance from the requesting location to the publication location satisfies a specified relationship. The method provides the asset in response to the request. In another embodiment, the publication includes references to one or more assets being shared by a publisher. Another method creates an asset-listener association in response to a received asset association request.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing a publication in a data store accessible by a server system, the publication including a publication location and a distance restriction;

receiving a request for an asset associated with the publication;

determining, by the server system, to provide the asset in response to the request, the determining based on a requesting location associated with the request, the publication location, and the distance restriction, wherein according to the distance restriction, the asset is only provided to the requesting location if a distance from the requesting location to the publication location satisfies a specified relationship; and

providing the asset in response to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the publication includes references to one or more assets being shared by a publisher; and

the publication location is;

a geographic location expressed as coordinates in a geographic coordinate system; and

one of a Global Positioning System (GPS) location of a mobile computing device associated with the publisher, a fixed location supplied by the publisher, and a location of a computing device storing the one or more assets.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the distance restriction is a radius around the publication location; and

the asset is not provided to requesting locations outside the radius.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the distance restriction is an area or shape including the publication location; and

the asset is not provided to requesting locations outside boundaries of the area or shape.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data store includes a plurality of publications for a plurality of publishers.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the publication includes references to one or more assets being shared by a publisher;

the references uniquely identify each of the one or more assets;

respective ones of the references are one or more of a network location and a uniform resource locator (URL) of respective ones of the one or more assets; and

the storing comprises;

retrieving, based on the references, copies of the one or more assets; and

storing the copies of the one or more assets in the data store.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more assets comprise one or more electronic files, database objects, web pages, hosted software applications, hosted services, online meetings, webinars, podcasts, videoconferences, shared desktops, learning management systems, computing system resources, network-accessible storage devices, file systems, streaming media, menus, deal-of-the-day offers, discount codes, and interactive whiteboards.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server system, a publication request, the publication request including references to one or more assets to be shared by a publisher, a publication location, and a distance restriction for the one or more assets;

creating a publication, the publication including the references, the publication location, and information identifying the publisher;

storing the publication in a data store accessible by the server system;

receiving a request for an asset of the one or more assets, the request indicating a requesting location;

determining, by the server system, whether to provide the asset in response to the request, the determining based on the requesting location, the publication location, and the distance restriction, wherein according to the distance restriction, the asset is only provided to the requesting location if a distance from the requesting location to the publication location satisfies a specified relationship; and

providing the asset in response to determining that the distance from the requesting location to the publication location satisfies the specified relationship.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving, at the server system, an asset association request from a listener having properties including a listener location, the asset association request indicating an asset of the one or more assets;

based at least in part on the properties and the distance restriction, determining if the listener is eligible to be associated with the indicated asset; and

in response to determining that the listener is eligible to be associated with the indicated asset, creating an asset-listener association associating the listener with the indicated asset.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying, by the server system, properties of one or more listeners, the properties including, for each of the one or more listeners;

a listener location; and

one or more of a registered user and a group;

receiving, at the server system, an asset association request from a listener of the one or more listeners, the asset association request indicating an asset of the one or more assets;

based at least in part on the properties of the listener and the distance restriction, determining if the listener is eligible to be associated with the indicated asset; and

in response to determining that the listener is eligible to be associated with the indicated asset, sending, from the server system, to the publisher, an approval request identifying the indicated asset and including at least a portion of the properties;

receiving, at the server system, a response to the approval request; and

in response to determining that the response indicates publisher approval, creating an asset-listener association associating the listener with the indicated asset.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving, at the server system, a request for the indicated asset from the listener; and

in response to determining that the asset-listener association has not expired or been revoked, providing the indicated asset to the listener.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving, at the server system, from the publisher, a revocation request for the asset-listener association; and

in response to receiving the revocation request, revoking the asset-listener association.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the publication request further includes publication criteria for the one or more assets, the distance restriction and the publication criteria being selectable via a user interface (UI) accessible by the publisher, and wherein the determining is further based on the publication criteria.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the publication criteria include time criteria, the time criteria including one or more of an expiration date, an expiration time, and a duration; and

according to the time criteria, the asset is only provided to the requesting location if the expiration date, the expiration time, or the duration has not passed.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the publication criteria includes a control list, the control list including rules for restricting access to the one or more assets to:

a radius around the publication location;

one or more users selected via a UI accessible by the publisher;

one or more registered users; and

one or more predefined groups.

16. The method of claim 13 wherein the publication criteria include access privileges for the one or more assets, the access privileges being one of read, write, execute, and republish.

17. A computer readable storage medium having executable instructions stored thereon, that if executed by a processor of a server hosting a cloud-based service, cause the processor to perform operations, the instructions comprising:

instructions for receiving a publication request including an uploaded copy of an asset to be shared by a publisher, a publication location, and publication criteria for the asset;

instructions for creating a publication, the publication including a reference to the uploaded copy of the asset, the publication location, the publication criteria, and information identifying the publisher; and

instructions for storing the copy of the asset and the publication in a data store accessible by the cloud-based service.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, the instructions further comprising:

receiving a download request from a listener having properties including a listener location, the download request indicating the asset;

based at least in part on the listener location, the publication location, and the publication criteria for the asset, determining if the listener is eligible to access the asset; and

in response to determining that the listener is eligible to access the asset, transmitting the copy of the asset to the listener.

19. A system comprising:

a server including a processor and a memory having instructions stored thereon, that, if executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a publication request including references to a plurality of assets to be shared by a publisher, a publication location, and publication criteria for the plurality of assets;

creating a publication, the publication including the references, the publication location, the publication criteria, and information identifying the publisher; and

storing, in the memory, the publication.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising a publisher computing device including a display device, the operations further comprising:

rendering, on the display device, a user interface (UI);

receiving via the UI, a selection of one or more assets to be published;

receiving, via the UI, indications of at least one publication criterion for each of the plurality of assets; and

receiving, via the UI, indications of at least one publication criterion for each of the plurality of assets.

21. The system of claim 19, the operations further comprising:

receiving an asset association request from a listener computing device having properties including a listener location, the asset association request indicating one of the plurality of assets;

based at least in part on the properties and the publication criteria for the indicated asset, determining if the listener computing device is eligible to be associated with the indicated asset; and

in response to determining that the listener computing device is eligible to be associated with the indicated asset, creating an asset-listener association associating the listener computing device with the indicated asset.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein:

the listener location is a Global Positioning System (GPS) location from one of a location service or a geographic information system (GIS); and

the publication location is one of a GPS location of a publisher computing device, a fixed location supplied by the publisher via a UI accessible from the publisher computing device, and a geographic location of a storage device storing the plurality of assets.