Sharing services

• US 9,448,700 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2012
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Moha, Alexandre, Baumann, Laurent, Carlhian, Alexandre, Champeaux, Philippe, Coffman, Patrick, Robert, Julien
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brahmachari, Mandrita
• Application Number:
  US13/629,076
• Publication Number:
  US 20130205219A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,454 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00

Abstract

Apparatuses and methods relating to content sharing are described. In one embodiment, a match between content type and one or more content services determine what content sharing services are displayed. In one embodiment, content sharing is accessible to all applications in an operating system.

Claims

1. A machine readable non-transitory storage medium containing executable instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method comprising:

receiving a selection of content, wherein the content is selected within a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application and the application executes on an operating system maintaining a geographic region setting based on preferences within the operating system;

determining the selected content is a first content type;

matching the first content type with a first transfer mode compatible with the first content type, wherein the first transfer mode is associated with the geographic region setting of the operating system;

after matching the first content type with the first transfer mode, presenting, within the GUI of the application, the first transfer mode in a manner that a user can select the first transfer mode, wherein a second transfer mode compatible with the first content type is associated with a geographic region different from the geographic region setting of the operating system and the second transfer mode is hidden or distinguished from the first transfer mode within the GUI of the application;

receiving, within the GUI of the application, a first transfer mode selection; and

transferring, by the selected first transfer mode, the selected content to a destination.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first content type is one of an image type, video type, audio type, or text type.

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first transfer mode is one or more of an image sharing service, social networking service, data storage service, email, and text message.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein the content is selected and transferred to the destination without the user exiting or switching from the application and without a user initiated account entry.

5. The medium of claim 1 further comprising:

determining the selected content comprises the first content type and a second content type different from the first content type;

matching the first content type and the second content type with a second transfer mode compatible with the first content type and the second content type; and

sending, automatically by the second transfer mode, the selected content comprising the first content type and the second content type, to the destination.

6. The medium of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a plurality of transfer modes are selected and automatically transferring, by the plurality of transfer modes, the selected content.

7. The medium of claim 1, wherein an application setting causes the first transfer mode compatible with the first content type to be replaced with a second transfer mode compatible with the first content type within the GUI.

8. The medium of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying, after determining the first transfer mode was selected, a transfer mode display window;

moving a representation of the selected content into a position overlapping a portion of the display of the transfer mode display window;

moving a representation of an attachment device into a position overlapping a portion of the representation of the selected content; and

displaying a representation of the selected content attached by the attachment device to the transfer mode display window.

9. The medium of claim 1, wherein determining the selected content is a first content type includes determining a codec of the selected content and wherein matching the first content type with a first transfer mode includes determining whether the first transfer mode is compatible with the codec associated with the selected content.

10. A machine-implemented method comprising:

receiving a selection of content, wherein the content is selected within a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application and the application executes on an operating system maintaining a geographic region setting based on preferences within the operating system;

determining the selected content is a first content type;

matching the first content type with a first transfer mode compatible with the first content type, wherein the first transfer mode is associated with the geographic region setting of the operating system;

presenting, within the GUI of the application, the first transfer mode in a manner that a user can select the first transfer mode, wherein a second transfer mode compatible with the first content type is associated with a geographic region different from the geographic region setting of the operating system and the second transfer mode is hidden or distinguished from the first transfer mode within the GUI of the application;

receiving, within the GUI of the application, a first transfer mode selection; and

transferring, by the selected first transfer mode, the selected content to a destination.

11. The machine-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the first content type is one of an image type, video type, audio type, or text type.

12. The machine-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the first transfer mode is one or more of an image sharing service, social networking service, data storage service, email, and text message.

13. The machine-implemented method of claim 10, wherein content is selected and transferred to the destination without the user exiting or switching from the application and without a user initiated account entry.

14. The machine-implemented method of claim 10 further comprising:

determining the selected content comprises the first content type and a second content type different from the first content type;

matching the first content type and the second content type with a second transfer mode compatible with the first content type and the second content type; and

sending, automatically by the second transfer mode, the selected content comprising the first content type and the second content type, to the destination.

15. The machine-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining a plurality of transfer modes are selected and automatically transferring, by the plurality of transfer modes, the selected content.

16. The machine-implemented method of claim 10 further comprising:

displaying, after determining the first transfer mode was selected, a transfer mode display window;

moving a representation of the selected content into a position overlapping a portion of the display of the transfer mode display window;

moving a representation of an attachment device into a position overlapping a portion of the representation of the selected content; and

displaying a representation of the selected content attached by the attachment device to the transfer mode display window.

17. The machine-implemented method of claim 10, determining the selected content is a first content type includes determining a codec of the selected content and wherein matching the first content type with a first transfer mode includes determining whether the first transfer mode is compatible with the codec associated with the selected content.

18. A data processing system comprising

a non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions;

a processing system to execute the instructions, the instructions to cause the processing system to provide an operating system including a content aware sharing module to provide content aware sharing to one or more applications executing on the operating system, the operating system additionally configured to maintain a geographic region setting based on preferences within the operating system, and wherein the operating system is further to manage execution of an application displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI) of the data processing system;

wherein the application is to receive a selection of content within the GUI of the application;

wherein the content aware sharing module of the operating system is to determine the selected content is a first content type, match the first content type with a first transfer mode compatible with the first content type, determine whether the first transfer mode is compatible with a codec associated with the selected content, present the first transfer mode in a manner that a user can select the first transfer mode, receive, from the application, a first transfer mode selection, and transfer, via the selected first transfer mode, the selected content to a destination, wherein the first transfer mode is associated with the geographic region setting of the operating system; and

wherein a second transfer mode compatible with the first content type is associated with a geographic region different from the geographic region setting of the operating system and the second transfer mode is hidden or distinguished from the first transfer mode within the GUI of the application.