Supporting media content revert functionality across multiple devices

• US 8,639,661 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2008
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Palermiti, Michael F., Ramsby, Scott R., Garcia-Ascanio, Francisco J., Subotic, Dejan D., Remick, Brian D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jalil, Neveen Abel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Young, Kevin L
• Application Number:
  US12/325,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20100138385A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,884 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/626
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1787 Details of non-transparently synchronising file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

Abstract

Both an edited version of a first image and an original version of the first image are stored at a first computing device. In response to a user request to synchronize images across multiple computing devices, both the edited version of the first image and the original version of the first image are synchronized with a second computing device. A user is allowed to revert to the original version of the first image regardless of on which of the multiple computing devices the edited version was changed.

Claims

1. A method implemented in a first computing device, the method comprising:

storing both an edited version of a first image and an original version of the first image;

synchronizing, by exchanging whole image files, in response to a user request to synchronize images across multiple computing devices with which a user is associated including the first computing device and a second computing device, both the edited version of the first image and the original version of the first image with the second computing device, a user request to synchronize images on the second computing device with images on the first computing device having been previously made;

allowing, in response to a user request to revert to the original version of the first image, reversion to the original version of the first image regardless of on which of the multiple computing devices the edited version was changed;

obtaining an original version of a second image from the second computing device;

allowing, in response to a user request to revert to the original version of the second image, reversion to the original version of the second image after the second image has been edited at one or more of the multiple computing devices;

receiving an indication from a remote service, the remote service not storing any images, that the original version of the second image has been added to an originals folder of the second computing device; and

wherein the obtaining comprises obtaining the original version of the second image in response to the indication.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the second computing device, a new edited version of the first image;

replacing the edited version of the first image with the new edited version of the first image; and

allowing, in response to the user request to revert received at the first computing device, reversion to the original version of the first image.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the storing comprises storing the original version of the first image in response to receiving, at the first computing device, a request to alter the first image.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a first folder of the first computing device that stores the original version of the first image; and

notifying a synchronization module of the first computing device that the first folder is to be synchronized with a second folder on the second computing device.

5. A method as recited in claim 4, further comprising communicating the original version of the first image to the second computing device for storage in the second folder.

6. A method as recited in claim 4, further comprising communicating the original version of the first image to a remote service for storage of the first image on the multiple computing devices.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining an original version of a second image from a remote service; and

allowing, in response to a user request to revert to the original version of the second image, reversion to the original version of the second image after the second image has been edited at one or more of the multiple computing devices.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

maintaining one or more additional versions of the first image in one or more additional folders; and

allowing, in response to a user input identifying one of the one or more additional versions of the first image, reversion to the identified one of the one or more additional versions.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising invoking an application programming interface (API) of an operating system of the first computing device to create an originals folder in which the original version of the first image is stored.

10. One or more computer storage memories having stored thereon multiple instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a first computing device, cause the one or more processors to:

identify a first folder of the first computing device, the first folder storing an original version of first media content having an edited version that is stored in a second folder of the first computing device, the first media content being one of multiple media content on the first computing device;

receive an indication that the multiple media content on the first computing device are to be synchronized with a second computing device, a user being associated with both the first computing device and the second computing device due to a user login to a content management service having been performed from both the first computing device and the second computing device;

notify, in response to receiving the indication, a synchronization module of the first computing device that the first folder is to be synchronized with a third folder of the second computing device by exchanging whole image files;

obtain an original version of second media content from the second computing device;

allow, in response to a user request to revert to the original version of the second media content, reversion to the original version of the second media content after the second media content has been edited at one or both of the first computing device and the second computing device;

receive an indication from a remote service, the remote service not storing any images, that the original version of the second media content has been added to an originals folder of the second computing device; and

wherein to obtain the original version is to obtain the original version of the second media content in response to the indication.

11. One or more computer storage memories as recited in claim 10, wherein each of the multiple media content comprises a different image.

12. One or more computer storage memories as recited in claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to allow, in response to a user request to revert to the original version of the first media content, reversion from the edited version of the first media content to the original version of the first media content regardless of on which of the computing devices the first media content may have been changed.

13. One or more computer storage memories as recited in claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to invoke an application programming interface (API) of an operating system of the first computing device to create the first folder.

14. One or more computer storage memories as recited in claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

maintain one or more additional versions of the first media content; and

allow, in response to a user input identifying one of the one or more additional versions of the first media content, reversion to the identified one of the one or more additional versions.

15. A method implemented in a first computing device, the method comprising:

identifying a first folder of the first computing device, the first folder storing an original version of a first image having an edited version that is stored in a second folder of the first computing device, the first image being one of multiple images on the first computing device;

receiving an indication that the multiple images on the first computing device are to be synchronized with a second computing device, a user being associated with both the first computing device and the second computing device, and a user request to synchronize images on the second computing device with images on the first computing device having been previously made;

notifying, in response to receiving the indication, a synchronization module of the first computing device that the first folder is to be synchronized with a third folder of the second computing device;

synchronizing the first folder of the first computing device with the third folder of the second computing device, and synchronizing the second folder of the first computing device with a fourth folder of the second computing device by exchanging whole image files; and

reverting, in response to a user request to revert to the original version of the first image, from the edited version of the first image to the original version of the first image regardless of whether the edited version of the first image was edited on the second computing device;

obtaining an original version of a second image from the second computing device;

allowing, in response to a user request to revert to the original version of the second image, reversion to the original version of the second image after the second image has been edited at one or more of the multiple computing devices;

receiving an indication from a remote service, the remote service not storing any images, that the original version of the second image has been added to an originals folder of the second computing device; and

wherein the obtaining comprises obtaining the original version of the second image in response to the indication.

16. A method as recited in claim 15, further comprising:

maintaining one or more additional versions of the first image in one or more additional folders of the first computing device; and

reverting, in response to a user request identifying one of the one or more additional versions of the first image, to the identified one of the one or more additional versions.