Multimedia sharing in social networks for mobile devices

• US 8,046,411 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2006
• Issued: 10/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Energetic Power Investment Limited
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Nathanael Joe, Quoc, Michael, Fukuda, Matthew, Wascovich, Dan, Ott, E. Stanley IV, Tsang, Audrey Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hamza; Faruk
• Assistant Examiner(s): RECEK, JASON D
• Application Number:
  US11/380,871
• Publication Number:
  US 20070255785A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,006 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709206-207, 709/223
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1046 Joining mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1068 Discovery involving direct consultation or announcement among potential requesting and potential source peers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards sharing multimedia information on a mobile device based at least in part on vitality information and other social networking information. Multimedia information may be received and/or synchronized on the mobile device based on a relationship between vitality information of members of a social network. The relationship may comprise a common membership in a group, a common multimedia usage behavior, a geographical proximity of members of the social network, a degree of separation of members of the social network, a common search behavior, or the like. Multimedia information captured on the mobile device may be manually and/or automatically annotated and shared with members of the social network. The multimedia information may be displayed in an integrated live view in conjunction with other social networking information.

Claims

1. A mobile device for sharing information, comprising:

a memory component for storing data; and

a processing component for executing data that performs actions, comprising;

receiving multimedia information;

annotating the multimedia information with at least text information or other multimedia information from a user; and

sharing with another user, independent of an action by the user or the other user, the annotated multimedia information for display in an integrated live view based at least in part on vitality information of a social networking relationship, the vitality information is associated with at least the user and the other user, wherein sharing the annotated multimedia information with the other user further comprises automatically synchronizing the annotated multimedia information of the user to include a modified annotated version of the annotated multimedia information based on a relationship between vitality information of members of a social network, wherein the modification to the annotated multimedia information is made by the other user.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, the actions further comprising:

displaying the multimedia information in an integrated live view for use in engaging in a social networking activity, the multimedia information displayed in association with social networking information, a group, a contact, a task, a proposed event, or a past event.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein annotating the multimedia information comprises automatically annotating the multimedia information based at least in part on a geographical location of the mobile device, a category identifier in a category structure, a time, an identity of the user of the mobile device, a social networking relationship, a physical proximity between social networking members, or an activity.

4. A mobile device for sharing information, comprising:

a memory component for storing data; and

a processing component for executing data that performs actions, including;

receiving or synchronizing, independent of an action of a user, an indication of a multimedia information based at least in part on a relationship between vitality information of the user and other vitality information associated with a social network;

modifying the multimedia information with an annotation from the user, the annotation comprising at least text information or other multimedia information; and

sharing with a member of the social network, independent of an action of the user or the member of the social network, the annotated multimedia information for display in an integrated live view based at least in part on the relationship, wherein sharing the annotated multimedia information with the member further comprises automatically synchronizing, based on a relationship between vitality information of members of the social network, the annotated multimedia information of the user to include a modified annotated version of the annotated multimedia information, wherein the modification to the annotation is made by the member.

5. The mobile device of claim 4, the actions further comprising:

enabling an interaction with another user associated with the received multimedia information.

6. A non-transitory processor readable storage medium that includes data, wherein the execution of the data provides for sharing information over a network by performing actions, comprising:

receiving, automatically, an annotated multimedia information at a mobile device, based at least in part on a relationship between vitality information of a user and the multimedia information, the annotation comprising at least text information or other multimedia information from the user;

synchronizing based on a relationship between vitality information of members of a social network, the annotated multimedia information of the user to include a modified annotated version of the annotated multimedia information, wherein the modification to the annotation is made by the other user; and

displaying the synchronized annotated multimedia information in an integrated live view.

7. The non-transitory processor readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein receiving is further based on another relationship between the vitality information of the user and other vitality information associated with the social network.

8. The non-transitory processor readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein receiving the multimedia information at the mobile device is further based on a search result.

9. The non-transitory processor readable storage medium of claim 6, the actions further comprising annotating, automatically, the multimedia information based at least in part on a location of the mobile device.

10. The non-transitory processor readable storage medium of claim 6, further comprising:

sending, automatically, the annotated multimedia information to another mobile device based at least in part on an interaction with another user of the other mobile device in an integrated live view, wherein the sending is over a device-to-device wireless protocol, or a client-server protocol.

11. A method for managing a mobile communication, comprising:

annotating multimedia information with at least text information or other multimedia information from a user;

sharing with another user the annotated multimedia information with a mobile device, independent of an action of the user or the other user, based at least in part on a relationship between vitality information of users in a social network;

synchronizing, based on the relationship between vitality information of users of the social network, the annotated multimedia information of the user to include a modified annotated version of the annotated multimedia information, wherein the modification to the annotation is made by the other user; and

displaying the synchronized shared annotated multimedia information in an integrated live view for the social network on the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein sharing the multimedia information further comprises at least one of automatically sharing or sharing based on a selection from an automatically generated recipient template.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising annotating, automatically, the multimedia information based at least in part on a geographical location of the mobile device.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the integrated live view for the social network further comprises at least one of a group view, a friend'"'"'s view, an activity oriented view, a chat room, or a contact list view.

15. A network device to manage a mobile communication, comprising:

a transceiver to send and receive data over a network; and

a processor that is operative to perform actions, comprising;

determining a relationship between vitality information of users in a social network;

receiving multimedia information from at least one of a first mobile device or a third-party multimedia source;

annotating the multimedia information with at least text information or other multimedia information from a user; and

sending the annotated multimedia information to a second mobile device for display in an integrated live view, independent of an action of the user or a user of the second mobile device, based at least in part on the determined relationship, wherein sending the annotated multimedia information to the second mobile device further comprises automatically synchronizing, based on the relationship between vitality information of users of the social network, the annotated multimedia information of the user to include a modified annotated version of the annotated multimedia information, wherein the modification to the annotation is made by the user of the second mobile device.

16. The network device of claim 15, wherein the determined relationship further comprises at least one of a common membership in a group, a common multimedia usage behavior, a geographical proximity of members of the social network, a common mood, a degree of separation of members of the social network, or a common search behavior.

17. The network device of claim 15, the actions further comprising:

assigning, automatically, the multimedia information to a category in a category structure based at least in part on an annotation of the multimedia information.