METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM FOR INCORPORATING A SERIES OF IMAGES RESIDENT ON A USER DEVICE INTO AN EXISTING WEB BROWSER SESSION

• US 20150281351A1
• Filed: 04/01/2014
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ditto Technologies
• Original Assignee: Ditto Technologies
• Inventors: Doerksen, Katherine Endress
• Granted Patent: US 9,699,123 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5683 Storage of data provided by user terminals, i.e. reverse caching

Abstract

Users desiring to associate a media object with an existing web browser session are provided with an out-of-band communication path by which to effect the association. When the media object is received at a web server involved in the session, the server creates a model of the item depicted in the media object and associates the model with the session. A projection of the resulting model is then made available for viewing (and, in some instances, manipulation) by the user during the web browser session.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

during a session between a processor-based device and a server, and responsive to a user request provided via the processor-based device, the server providing a communication path identifier for provision of a media object to be associated with the session, the communication path identifier including information that allows for association of the media object with the session and being an identifier associated with a channel separate from that used for the session;

responsive to receipt of the media object in a communication via the channel, the server extracting the media object from the communication, creating, using the media object, a model of an item depicted in the media object, and associating the model with the session using information included in the communication path identifier;

providing, by the server, a representation of the model useful for a virtual fitting of an article on the item depicted in the media object, said representation being provided during the session for manipulation by the user via the processor-based device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the model useful for a virtual fitting of an article on the item depicted in the media object comprises a three dimensional representation of the item depicted in the media object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the model useful for a virtual fitting of an article on the item depicted in the media object comprises a two dimensional representation of the item depicted in the media object.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the model useful for a virtual fitting of an article on the item depicted in the media object comprises features and descriptors of the item depicted in the media object, said features and descriptors being detected through analysis of the media object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the model useful for a virtual fitting of an article on the item depicted in the media object comprises optical flow of information concerning the item depicted in the media object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the media object comprises a digital movie or one or more digital images depicting a human face.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the communication path identifier comprises an email address.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication comprises an email message and the media object is included as an attachment to the email message.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the media object comprises a digital movie or one or more digital images depicting a human face.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the processor-based device comprises a first processor-based device, the communication path identifier is provided to the first processor-based device and the media object is received from a second processor-based device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the second processor-based device comprises a mobile phone with a digital camera.

12. A server comprising a processor and a storage device communicatively coupled to the processor, the storage device storing processor-executable instructions, which instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

responsive to a user request received from a first processor based device during a session between the first processor-based device and the server, provide a communication path identifier for provision of a media object to be associated with the session, the communication path identifier including information that allows for association of the media object with the session and being an identifier associated with a channel separate from that used for the session;

responsive to receipt of the media object in a communication via the channel, extract the media object from the communication, create, using the media object, a model of an object depicted in the media object, and associate the model with the session using information included in the communication path identifier; and

provide a projection of the model during the session.

13. The server of claim 12, wherein the media object comprises a digital movie or one or more digital images depicting a human face.

14. The server of claim 13, wherein the communication path identifier comprises an email address.

15. The server of claim 12, wherein the communication comprises an email message and the media object is included as an attachment to the email message.

16. The server of claim 15, wherein the media object comprises a digital movie or one or more digital images depicting a human face.

17. The server of claim 16, wherein the communication path identifier is provided to an email addresses.

18. The server of claim 12, wherein the communication path identifier comprises an email address.