Favorites list sharing

• US 9,230,238 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2009
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Zappa, Eric J., Mohammed, Abdul Haadi, Wang, Wendy Wenjing, Steinbok, Jeffrey E., Bono, Joseph Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): LOWENBERGER, AARON J
• Application Number:
  US12/401,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,492 Days
• Field of Search: 715/748, 715/760, 715/840
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Techniques are described to share items from a favorites list. In an implementation, a list entry for a favorites list may be associated with content from a third party source by a first user. The favorites list may be presented in a webpage to display the list entry and the associated content to another user. A control operable to share the list entry with the other user may be exposed with the list entry. Responsive to operation of the control, the content and/or related data may be obtained from the third party source and data may be stored to associate the list entry including the obtained content with the other user. In at least some embodiments, the control is operable by a single-click to cause the sharing of the list entry.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting a favorites list that includes a favorites list item, that is authored by a user, with associated content from an affiliate provider in a webpage configured as a profile page of the user for a social networking service, wherein the associated content is selected from the affiliate provider by the user in conjunction with authoring the favorites list item and for presentation with the favorites list item in the profile page;

exposing a control operable to share the favorites list item with another user; and

responsive to operation of the control;

obtaining data from the affiliate provider that is related to the associated content presented with the favorites list item, including access permissions that enable the associated content to be accessed from the affiliate provider to recreate the favorites list item; and

recreating the favorites list item in a webpage configured as a profile page of the other user for the social network by generating a corresponding favorites list item for the other user based upon the obtained data, the corresponding favorites list item reproducing an appearance of the favorites list item as authored by the user including appearance of the associated content selected from the affiliate provider by the user.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein:

the data obtained from the affiliate provider includes the associated content; and

the generating of the corresponding favorites list item comprises storing data to describe the favorites list item including the obtained associated content.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein:

the data obtained from the affiliate provider includes data describing at least a location where the associated content is available; and

the generating of the corresponding favorites list item includes storing data to describe the favorites list item including a link to the location where the associated content is available.

4. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising providing script to a client with the webpage configured as the profile page of the user that is operable in response to selection of the control to cause the obtaining and generating.

5. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising exposing an application programming interface (API) that is callable by a client in response to operation of the control to cause the obtaining and generating.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the webpage configured as the profile page of the user is accessible to the other user over a network.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the webpage configured as the profile page of the user is a personal page of the user presented to the other user in conjunction with one or more services from a service provider.

8. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising enabling the user to configure the favorites list item to include the associated content from the affiliate provider through interaction with one or more services available from a service provider.

9. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising:

authenticating the other user to an account to provide access to one or more services from a service provider according to the access permissions; and

accessing the account to perform the generating of the corresponding favorites list item for the other user by storing data to define the corresponding favorites list item with the account.

10. A method as described in claim 9, wherein the data stored with the account to define the corresponding favorites list item includes the data related to the associated content that is obtained from the affiliate provider.

11. A method as described in claim 1, wherein operation of the control comprises a single-click.

12. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the associated content comprises one or more of an image, audio, video, a description of the content, and content metadata.

13. A client device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the client device to;

output a webpage configured as a profile page of a user that includes a favorites list of the user listing items selected by the user as favorites within a social networking service;

expose a control to another user via the favorites list of the webpage configured as the profile page of the user that is operable to enable the other user to select that an item in the favorites list, that is presented with content from an affiliate provider to the other user, be recreated on a favorites list of the other user; and

responsive to interaction of the other user with the control;

obtain the content and related data from the affiliate provider, the related data including access permissions that enable the content to be accessed from the affiliate provider to recreate an item in a favorites list of the other user; and

add the item to the favorites list of the other user, the item that is added to the favorites list of the other user corresponding to an item that is selected to be recreated from the favorites list of the user, and including the content obtained from the affiliate provider.

14. A client device as described in claim 13, wherein the interaction with the control is a single-click.

15. A client device as described in claim 13, wherein the control is operable by the other user to recreate multiple list items in the favorites list of the user including said item by storing data to define each of the multiple list items with an account corresponding to the other user.

16. A client device as described in claim 13, wherein the webpage corresponds to a page of the user that is output at the client device through interaction of the other user over a network with the social networking service, wherein the social networking service is available from a service provider.

17. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed via the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

detect selection of a control that is located with one or more items in a favorites list on a webpage and is operable to share the one or more items in the favorites list that is created by a first user of a social networking service, wherein the one or more items are authored by the first user for display in the favorites list; and

responsive to the detection;

identify content from one or more affiliate providers that is associated by the first user with the one or more items as part of authoring the one or more items;

interact with the one or more affiliate providers to obtain data describing the content, including access permissions that enable the content to be accessed from the affiliate providers to recreate the one or more items in favorites lists;

recreate the one or more items in a favorites list of a second user of the social networking service that is presented as part of a webpage configured as a profile page of the second user, wherein the one or more items in the favorites list of the second user reproduce an appearance of the one or more items that results from the authoring, including appearance of the content that is associated with the one or more items as part of the authoring; and

associate the one or more items in the favorites list of the second user with the content based upon the obtained data.

18. A system as described in claim 17, wherein to associate the one or more items with the content comprises including the content with data stored to define the one or more items in the favorites list of the second user.

19. A system as described in claim 17, wherein:

to identify content that is associated with the one or more items comprises extracting identifiers corresponding to the one or more items from a webpage in which the favorites list is presented; and

to interact to obtain data describing the content comprises performing a lookup on the one or more affiliate providers using the extracted identifiers.

20. A system as described in claim 17, wherein to recreate the one or more items in a favorites list of the second user comprises:

extracting data defining the one or more list items through a lookup on an account associated with the first user; and

combining the extracted data defining the one or more list items with the obtained data describing the content to create corresponding list items in the favorites list of the second user via an account associated with the second user.