MESSAGING APPLICATION FOR RECORDING AND INSERTING A VIDEO MESSAGE INTO A CHAT

• US 20160373388A1
• Filed: 07/17/2015
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Voxer IP LLC (Voxer, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Voxer IP LLC (Voxer, Inc.)
• Inventors: AU, Edmond B., DOMBROVSKYI, Kostiantyn, VASKO, Michal, KATIS, Thomas E., REMEDIOS, Irvin J.F.
• Application Number:
  US14/802,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20160373388A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

A messaging application, intended to run on a communication device, that is capable of recording a video clip in response to a predefined motion of the mobile communication device. When the messaging application is opened, and the predefined motion is sensed, a video module included in the messaging application is activated, enabling the recording, saving and insertion of a video message containing the video clip into a messaging chat. In a specific, but non-exclusive embodiment, the predefined motion is a rotation of the communication device from a portrait orientation to a landscape orientation. In other embodiments, other predefined motions may be used.

Claims

1. A messaging application embedded in a non-transitory computer readable medium and intended to run on a mobile communication device configured to be connected to a network, the messaging application comprising:

a chat module enabling participation in a messaging chat, the messaging chat including a string of one or more messages sent between participants; and

a video module configured to interact with a video camera on the mobile communication device,

the messaging application further responsive to a sensor that senses a predefined motion of the communication device, and in response to the sensing of the predefined motion, the messaging application further configured to;

(a) record a video clip;

(b) create a video message containing the video clip; and

(c) insert the video message containing the video clip into the string of one or more messages sent between the participants of the messaging chat.

2. The messaging application of claim 1, wherein the predefined motion sensed by the sensor is a rotation of the communication device from a portrait orientation to a landscape orientation.

3. The messaging application of claim 1, further comprising a record function for selectively recording the video clip.

4. The messaging application of claim 1, further comprising a preview function for selectively previewing the recorded the video clip.

5. The messaging application of claim 1, further comprising a save function for saving the video clip and automatically inserting the video message containing the video clip into the string of messages of the messaging chat.

6. The messaging application of claim 1, wherein the chat module further enables participation in multiple messaging chats, the multiple chats each including a string of one or more messages sent between participants of the multiple messaging chats respectively.

7. The messaging application of claim 1, further comprising a chat selection module for inserting the video message containing the video clip into one or more selected messaging chats respectively.

8. The messaging application of claim 1, further comprising a contact selection module for selecting one or more contacts among a list of contacts and for sending the video message containing the video clip to the selected one or more contacts.

9. The messaging application of claim 1, wherein the messaging application is configured to transmit and/or receive, in addition to the video message one or more of the following types of messages:

text;

voice;

or

images or photos.

10. The messaging application of claim 1, wherein the predefined motion comprises motion of the mobile communication device in one of the following:

(a) from a portrait orientation to a landscape orientation;

(b) from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation;

(c) a circular motion;

(d) an up/down motion;

(e) a side-to-side motion;

or

(f) to and fro motion.