Systems and methods for providing a user with a set of interactivity features locally on a user device

• US 9,462,054 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2014
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Inventors: Poletto, Stephen, Belknap, Peter, Kleinpeter, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tuan S
• Application Number:
  US14/247,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20150244794A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/113 Details of archiving lifecycle management in storage systems G06F3/0649; backup systems G06F11/1446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1085 involving dynamic management of active down- or uploading connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Providing a user with an interactive user interface that may fully enable interactions regardless of connectivity status may be provided. In some embodiments, one or more content items may be selected by a user of the user devices and may be queued for upload to a content management system. The content items may be organized into one or more collections of content items with other content items already stored in a user account on the content management system, such as images having similar geo-temporal characteristics. A set of interactivity features may be available to the user for interacting with the queued content item. This may provide the user with the seamless feeling as if the content items have been uploaded to the content management system and the user may be interacting with the content items on the content management system, even if the upload has not been completed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

queuing a content item for upload from a user device to a content management system;

presenting, prior to upload, the content item within a gallery of content items within a user interface displayed on the user device, wherein the gallery of content items comprises one or more previously uploaded content items and one or more content items queued for upload;

categorizing, within the gallery of content items and regardless of upload status, the content item in a collection of content items comprising at least one content item previously uploaded to an account on the content management system;

providing a set of interactivity features on the user device for interacting, regardless of upload status, with the one or more previously uploaded content items and the one or more content items queued for upload;

uploading metadata associated with the content item to the content management system prior to uploading the content item; and

receiving, from the content management system and prior to completing an upload of the content item to the content management system, categorization data for the content item from the content management system based on the uploaded metadata.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying the content item from a plurality of content items stored on the user device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting the content item within the user interface categorized in the collection of content items while the content item uploads to the content management system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising

categorizing, prior to completing the upload of the content item to the content management system, the content item in the collection of content items based on the categorization data received from the content management system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item comprises one or more of an image, a video, a text item, a music item, or a collection of images.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the collection of content items comprises:

a content item previously uploaded to the account on the content management system; and

a content item queued for upload from the user device but that has not completely uploaded.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

categorizing the content item with at least one additional content item queued to be uploaded from the user device to the content management system; and

displaying the collection of content items comprising the content item and the at least one additional content item within the user interface.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item comprises one or more of:

a content item stored on the user device, a content item attached to a received email, a content item attached to a received SMS message, a content item attached to a received MMS message, or a content item received via a social media network.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of interactivity features comprises one or more of:

a sharing option, an annotating option, a messaging option, an option for adding the content item to a collection, or an option for moving the content item from a first collection of content items to a second collection of content items.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a level of connectivity between the user device and the content management system; and

pausing the upload of the content item in response to the level of connectivity being below a defined threshold.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein queuing, presenting, and providing occur at a substantially same time.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the content item within the gallery of content items comprises presenting a collective grid of thumbnail images representing the content item, the one or more previously uploaded content items, and the one or more content items queued for upload.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising organizing, within the gallery of content items, the grid of thumbnail images to represent a plurality of separate collections of content items.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein each of the separate collections of content items is associated with one or more unique categorization factors.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein each of the separate collections of content items is associated with its own interactivity feature.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a set of interactivity features comprises:

providing an option for a user to select a subset of content items from the gallery of content items; and

providing an interactivity feature to be applied jointly to the subset of content items regardless of the individual upload status of each content item in the subset of content items.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising applying the interactivity feature to the subset of content items regardless of connectivity with the content management system.

18. A user device comprising:

a display screen;

communications circuitry;

a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions thereon; and

at least one processor, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user device to;

access a user account on a content management system over a communications network using the communications circuitry, the user device being authorized by the user account;

download a first version of an image from the account on the content management system, the first version of the image comprising a low resolution version of the image;

display the first version of the image within a user interface on the display screen;

detect one or more user interactions with the displayed first version of the image;

store data corresponding to the one or more user interactions with the displayed first version of the image within the storage;

send the stored data to the content management system over the communications network using the communications circuitry;

display the first version of the image in a way that reflects the one or more user interactions;

download a second version of the image from the account on the content management system while the first version of the image is displayed within the user interface, the second version of the image comprising a high resolution version of the image; and

display the second version of the image in a way that reflects the one or more user interactions.

19. The user device of claim 18, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further cause the user device to:

display the first version of the image in a way that reflects the one or more user interactions prior to sending the stored data to the content management system.

20. The user device of claim 18, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further cause the user device to:

send the stored data and display the first version of the image in a way that reflects the one or more user interactions at a substantially same time.

21. The user device of claim 18, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor further cause the user device to:

download the second version of the image based on a dynamic priority list.

22. The user device of claim 18, wherein the first version of the image comprises a thumbnail resolution version of the image.

23. The user device of claim 18, wherein the one or more user interactions comprise one or more of:

sharing, annotating, messaging, modifying, adding to a collection, or moving from a first collection of content items to a second collection of content items.

24. The user device of claim 18, wherein, the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further cause the user device to download the second version of the image in the background while sending the stored data corresponding to the one or more user interactions to the content management system.

25. The user device of claim 18, wherein, the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further cause the user device to, upon downloading the second version of the image, replace the first version of the image with the second version of the image within the user interface.

26. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a user device, cause the user device to:

display a first version of an image downloaded from a content management system within a user interface presented on a display screen of the user device;

detect a modification to the first version of the image, the first version of the image comprising a low resolution version of the image;

queue data corresponding to the modification for upload to the content management system;

present the modification to the first version of the image and the first version of the image within the user interface at a substantially same time regardless of connectivity with the content management system;

download a second version of the image from the content management system in the background while the first version of the image is displayed within the user interface, the second version of the image comprising a high resolution version of the image; and

transfer the modification of the first version of the image to the second version of the image.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 26, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor of the user device, further cause the user device to:

present any detected additional modifications to the first version of the image with the first version of the image; and

send data corresponding to the additional modifications to the content management system while presenting the detected additional modifications to the first version of the image.