Medium and system for enabling content sharing among participants associated with an event

• US 7,853,483 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2005
• Issued: 12/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mercer, Ian Cameron, Patten, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Garg; Yogesh C
• Assistant Examiner(s): ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E
• Application Number:
  US11/198,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20070033109A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,957 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26, 705/27, 707/737
• US Class Current: 705/26.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1057 involving pre-assessment of levels of reputation of peers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1063 Discovery through centralising entities

Abstract

Enabling the automatic identification of participants to a common event to enable data sharing between the participants. An event identifier embedded in the content data associates the content data with an event. A content data service maintains a list of event identifiers and a list of participants associated with each event. Each of the participants communicates with the content data service to identify the other participants. The participants communicate with each other to share content data from the common event.

Claims

1. A system for enabling content sharing among participants in an event, said system comprising:

a one or more memory and a one or more computer processors configured to;

create a trust profile for each participant in a list of participants;

receive content data from a first participant of the event, wherein the content data comprises;

a first data including a digital image of an event identifier captured by the first participant, wherein the event identifier is provided by an event coordinator of the event, and

a second data including at least one of a digital image, video data, and audio data;

decode the received content data to detect the event identifier embedded in the digital image of the first data;

analyze the second data to determine which of the at least one digital image, video data, and audio data to associate with the event identifier; and

create a filtered data based on the analysis; and

enable the filtered data to be shared with one or more other participants in the list of participants based on the trust profile.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising metadata associated with the event identifier.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more computer processors is further configured for providing, to the first participant, the metadata associated with the event identifier.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more computer processors is further configured for enabling a peer-to-peer connection between a computing device associated with the first participant and a computing device associated with another one of the participants.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer processors is further configured to execute computer-executable instructions for:

receiving a request from the event coordinator for the event identifier for the event;

defining the event identifier; and

providing the defined event identifier to the event coordinator.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer processors is further configured for identifying of the first participant from the list of participants as blocked from accessing content data of a second participant.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer processors is further configured for synchronizing, among each of the participants in the list of participants for the event identifier, information about each of the participants.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer processors is further configured for receiving authorization from one of the participants to share the content data associated with the first participant.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the event identifier comprises one or more of the following:

a barcode, a serial number, and a uniform resource locator.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a web site for communicating with each of the participants.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured for generating the event identifier responsive to a request from a user.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured for maintaining the trust profile.

13. One or more tangible computer storage media having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for enabling the sharing of data content associated with an event, said instructions comprising:

creating a trust profile for each participant in a list of participants;

receiving content data from a first participant of the event, wherein the content data comprises;

a first data including a digital image of an event identifier captured by the first participant, wherein the event identifier is provided by an event coordinator of the event, and

a second data including at least one of a digital image, video data, and audio data;

decoding the received content data to detect the event identifier embedded in the digital image of the first data;

analyzing the second data to determine which of the at least one digital image, video data, and audio data to associate with the event identifier; and

creating a filtered data based on the analysis; and

enabling the filtered data to be shared with one or more other participants in the list of participants based on the trust profile.

14. The computer storage media of claim 13, wherein the instructions further comprise:

storing metadata associated with the event identifier; and

providing the stored metadata associated with a particular event identifier to the participants in the list of participants associated with the particular event identifier.

15. The computer readable storage media of claim 14, wherein the metadata comprises one or more of the following:

an event name, a date, an event duration, an event location, and the list of participants.

16. The computer readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the instructions further comprise enabling a peer-to-peer connection between a computing device associated with the first participant and a computing device associated with another one of the participants.

17. The computer storage media of claim 13, wherein the event identifier comprises one or more of the following:

a barcode, a serial number, and a uniform resource locator.

18. The computer storage media of claim 13, wherein the instructions further comprise synchronizing, among each of the participants in the list of participants for of the event identifier, information about each of the participants.