GEOGRAPHIC AREA AND CATEGORY SPECIFIC CONTENT SHARING BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20150065172A1
• Filed: 09/03/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: DO, LYDIA M., HARDEE, CHRISTOPHER J., RODRIGUEZ, ADRIAN X., WOODS, ERIC
• Application Number:
  US14/016,450
• Publication Number:
  US 20150065172A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0245 Filtering by information in the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A method, system, and/or computer program product automatically shares content between mobile devices. Permissible geographic areas for sharing digital content from a user'"'"'s mobile device are received, where the digital content is from a user-approved category of digital content. A determination is made as to whether an authorized mobile receiving device is within a specific permitted geographic area from the permissible geographic areas. In response to determining that the authorized mobile receiving device is within the specific permitted geographic area, the digital content is automatically shared between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device.

Claims

1. A method of automatically sharing content between mobile devices, the method comprising:

receiving permissible geographic areas for sharing digital content from a user'"'"'s mobile device, wherein the digital content is from a user-approved category of digital content;

determining whether an authorized mobile receiving device is within a specific permitted geographic area from the permissible geographic areas; and

in response to determining that the authorized mobile receiving device is within the specific permitted geographic area, automatically sharing, by one or more processors, the digital content between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content is streaming content that is streamed from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a permissible set of users who are authorized to receive the digital content;

determining whether any user from the permissible set of users is currently within the specific permitted geographic area; and

in response to determining that no user from the permissible set of users is currently within the specific permitted geographic area, blocking the sharing of the digital content between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining that the authorized mobile receiving device has moved outside the specific permitted geographic area, automatically blocking the sharing of the digital content between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the authorized mobile receiving device has left the specific permitted geographic area after receiving the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device; and

in response to determining that the authorized mobile receiving device has left the specific permitted geographic area after receiving the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device, sending a signal to the authorized mobile receiving device to delete the digital content from the authorized mobile receiving device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device are both within the specific permitted geographic area at a same time; and

in response to determining that the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device are not both within the specific permitted geographic area at the same time, blocking the sharing of the digital content between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a description of the digital content to a management device;

receiving an authorization from the management device to transmit the digital content that matches the description from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device; and

in response to receiving the authorization to transmit the digital content, transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a description of the digital content to a management device;

receiving an authorization from the management device to transmit only a portion of the digital content that matches the description from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device; and

in response to receiving the authorization to transmit only the portion of the digital content, transmitting the portion of the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by line-of-sight transceivers in the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device, whether the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device are within visual range of one another; and

in response to the line-of-sight transceivers determining that the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device are no longer within visual range of one another, transmitting a signal to the authorized mobile receiving device to delete the digital content, which has been received from the user'"'"'s mobile device, from the authorized mobile receiving device.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, by position devices in the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device, that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically moving toward the user'"'"'s mobile device; and

in response to the position devices detecting that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically moving toward the user'"'"'s mobile device, transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the authorized mobile receiving device is one of multiple authorized mobile receiving devices that are currently within the specific permitted geographic area, wherein other authorized mobile receiving devices from the multiple authorized mobile receiving devices are currently stationary, and wherein the method further comprises:

detecting, by position devices in the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device, that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically moving toward the user'"'"'s mobile device; and

in response to the position devices detecting that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically moving toward the user'"'"'s mobile device, transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device before transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the other authorized mobile receiving devices that are currently stationary.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, by position devices in the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device, that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically moving away from the user'"'"'s mobile device; and

in response to the position devices detecting that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically moving away from the user'"'"'s mobile device, transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the authorized mobile receiving device is one of multiple authorized mobile receiving devices that are currently within the specific permitted geographic area, and wherein the method further comprises:

detecting, by position devices in the multiple authorized mobile receiving devices, that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically closer to the user'"'"'s mobile device than other authorized mobile receiving devices from the multiple authorized mobile receiving devices; and

in response to the position devices in the multiple authorized mobile receiving devices detecting that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically closer to the user'"'"'s mobile device than the other authorized mobile receiving devices, transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device before transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the other authorized mobile receiving devices that are farther away from the user'"'"'s mobile device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the authorized mobile receiving device is one of multiple authorized mobile receiving devices that are currently within the specific permitted geographic area, and wherein the method further comprises:

detecting, by position devices in the multiple authorized mobile receiving devices, that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically farther away from the user'"'"'s mobile device than other authorized mobile receiving devices from the multiple authorized mobile receiving devices; and

in response to the position devices in the multiple authorized mobile receiving devices detecting that the authorized mobile receiving device is physically farther away from the user'"'"'s mobile device than the other authorized mobile receiving devices, transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the authorized mobile receiving device before transmitting the digital content from the user'"'"'s mobile device to the other authorized mobile receiving devices that are closer to the user'"'"'s mobile device.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an input that defines the specific permitted geographic area on a map that is displayed on a user interface, wherein the input is generated by a user tracing a boundary on a map displayed on the user-interface, and wherein tracing the boundary defines the specific permitted geographic area for sharing data from the user'"'"'s mobile device.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

displaying a real-time location of the authorized mobile receiving device on the map.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving a signal from the user'"'"'s mobile device indicating the digital content being associated with the permitted geographic area displayed on the map, wherein the signal indicates that the user has dragged and dropped a description of the digital content onto the permitted geographic area displayed on the map.

18. A computer program product for automatically sharing content between mobile devices, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

receiving user-defined permissible geographic areas for sharing data from a user'"'"'s mobile device;

receiving a digital content and a user-approved content category that are authorized to be shared between the user'"'"'s mobile device and an authorized mobile receiving device that is within a specific permitted geographic area, wherein the specific permitted geographic area is from the user-defined permissible geographic areas;

determining whether the authorized mobile receiving device is within the specific permitted geographic area; and

in response to determining that the authorized mobile receiving device is within the specific permitted geographic area, automatically sharing the digital content, from the user-approved content category, between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device.

19. A computer system comprising:

a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium;

first program instructions to receive user-defined permissible geographic areas for sharing data from a user'"'"'s mobile device;

second program instructions to receive a digital content and a user-approved content category that are authorized to be shared between the user'"'"'s mobile device and an authorized mobile receiving device that is within a specific permitted geographic area, wherein the specific permitted geographic area is from the user-defined permissible geographic areas;

third program instructions to determine that the authorized mobile receiving device is within the specific permitted geographic area; and

fourth program instructions to, in response to determining that the authorized mobile receiving device is within the specific permitted geographic area, automatically share the digital content, from the user-approved content category, between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device; and

wherein

the first, second, third, and fourth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.

20. The computer system of claim 19, further comprising:

fifth program instructions to determine whether the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device are both within the specific permitted geographic area at a same time; and

sixth program instructions to, in response to determining that the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device are not both within the specific permitted geographic area at the same time, block the sharing of the digital content, from the user-approved content category, between the user'"'"'s mobile device and the authorized mobile receiving device; and

wherein

the fifth and sixth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.