Embeddable media upload object

• US 9,432,417 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Vuskovic, Vladimir, Wilkiewicz, Jaroslaw Jerzy, Lundberg, Eric P., Posnick, Jeffrey Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T
• Application Number:
  US13/926,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20150135076A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,162 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV

Abstract

A user device'"'"'s browser receives a page from a publishing system and presents content of the page within a window. Instructions from a media hosting system cause a frame to be created within the window. The frame includes a media upload object from a media hosting system that has a different address domain that the publishing system. A communication channel is established between the window and the frame to allow messages to be exchanged. The media upload object allows a user to create a media item and upload it to the media hosting system. Throughout the process of creating and uploading the media item, the media upload object transmits one or more messages to the page via the communication channel. Based on the messages, the page responds to what is occurring within the frame.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

creating a frame within a window that includes content of a page received by a user device from a publishing system, the frame created based on instructions received from a hosting system, the frame including an upload object from the hosting system, the hosting system having a different address domain than the publishing system;

establishing a communication channel between the window and the frame, the communication channel comprised of a first event listener for the page to receive messages from the upload object and a second event listener for the upload object to receive messages from the page;

receiving, by the upload object from the page via the communication channel, notification instructions indicating that the upload object notifies the page of a plurality of events when they occur within the frame, at least one of the plurality of events being the upload object receiving from the hosting system an identifier associated with a video created via the upload object;

initiating a video capture device based on a user request made through the upload object, the video capture device generating video data responsive to the initiation;

transmitting the generated video data to the hosting system;

receiving, by the upload object from the hosting system an identifier associated with a video created based on the video data and stored by the hosting system; and

transmitting, based on the notification instructions, the identifier directly from the upload object to the page via the communication channel, the content of the page updated based on the identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions received from the hosting system are received responsive to instruction included in the page being executed by a browser and directing the browser to request instructions from the hosting system for loading the upload object.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to an additional event from plurality of events occurring within the frame, transmitting, by the upload object to the page via the communication channel, a message indicating that the additional event occurred.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the additional event is one of the following:

user requests to create the video, creation of the video is started, the user requests to upload the video, the video is selected by the user to upload, and the video has been stored by the hosting system.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the page causes a browser to perform an action responsive to receiving the message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the received identifier is included in the content of the page.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is a uniform resource identifier for accessing the video.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the upload object from the page via the communication channel, metadata; and

receiving, by the upload object from the page via the communication channel, additional instructions indicating that the metadata be included with video data transmitted to the hosting system.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the metadata indicates that the video data be associated with an account of the publishing system with hosting system.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the metadata indicates that the video data be accessible by a set of users.

11. A computer implemented method comprising:

creating a frame within a window that includes content of a page received by a user device from a publishing system, the frame created based on instructions received from a media hosting system, the frame including a media upload object from the media hosting system, the media hosting system having a different domain than the publishing system;

establishing a communication channel between the window and the frame, the communication channel comprised of a first event listener for the page to receive messages from the media upload object and a second event listener for the media upload object to receive messages from the page;

receiving, by the media upload object from the page via the communication channel, notification instructions indicating that the media upload object notifies the page of a plurality of events when they occur within the frame, at least one of the plurality of events being the media upload object receiving from the media hosting system an identifier associated with a media item;

transmitting a media item to the media hosting system for storage, the transmission of the media item initiated through the media upload object;

receiving, by the media upload object from the media hosting system an identifier associated with the transmitted media item stored by the media hosting system; and

transmitting, based on the notification instructions, the identifier directly from the media upload object to the page via the communication channel, the content of the page updated based on the identifier.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the media item transmitted to the media hosting system is stored on the user device and selected for transmission by the user via the media upload object.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the media item transmitted to the media hosting system is created by a media capture device based on a request provided by a user to the media upload object.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the identifier associated with the transmitted media item is a uniform resource identifier for accessing the media item.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the identifier associated with the transmitted media item is presented within the page.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the instructions received from the media hosting system are received responsive to instructions included in the page being executed by a browser and directing the browser to request instructions from the media hosting system for loading the media upload object.

17. A computer-implemented method comprising:

transmitting, by a media hosting system, instructions to a user device, the instructions causing a frame to be created within a window that includes content of a page presented at the user device, the frame including a media upload object, the page received by the user device from a publishing system having a different domain than the media hosting system;

receiving, by the media hosting system, a media item transmitted by the user device, transmission of the media item initiated at the user device through the media upload object;

storing, by the media hosting system, the media item; and

transmitting, by the media hosting system to the media upload object, an identifier associated with the stored media item,

wherein the identifier is transmitted by the media upload object via a communication channel directly to the page in the window based on notification instructions provided by the page to the media upload object indicating that the media upload object notifies the page of a plurality of events when they occur within the frame, at least one of the plurality of events being the media upload object receiving from the media hosting system an identifier associated with a media item, and

wherein the communication channel is comprised of a first event listener for the page to receive messages from the media upload object and a second event listener for the media upload object to receive messages from the page.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the identifier associated with the stored media item is a uniform resource identifier for accessing the video.