Conducting sessions with captured image data of physical activity and uploading using token-verifiable proxy uploader

• US 9,553,873 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Whiteley, Mark, Agnew, John, Ota, Jeffrey, Hall, John J., Hafiz, Nauman
• Primary Examiner(s): Dada, Beemnet
• Assistant Examiner(s): BELL, KALISH K
• Application Number:
  US14/478,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20150067811A1
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 726/4, 726/28, 726/29
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0281 Proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0807 using tickets, e.g. Kerberos cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0884 by delegation of authentication, e.g. a proxy authenticates an entity to be authenticated on behalf of this entity vis-à-vis an authentication entity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding

Abstract

A token-verifiable proxy uploader is disclosed. A token request may be transmitted from an end-user communication device for requesting an upload token from a hosted services server that is configured to authorize transmission of a first media file to a hosted proxy server. The upload token may be transmitted to the end-user communication device. Validation of the user of the end-user communication device may be conducted without the end-user device providing any credentials to the media sharing site and in which the end-user device is does not transmit any credentials specific to the media sharing site as part of the validation. The token validation call may be in response to the hosted proxy server receiving the upload token and either: (1) the first media file from the end-user communication device; or (2) a request from the end-user communication device to upload the first media file to the hosted proxy server.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving at a hosted services server, a token request transmitted from an end-user communication device, requesting an upload token from the hosted services server configured to authorize transmission of a first media file to a hosted proxy server;

upon validating a user of the end-user communication device using end-user credentials to the hosted services server, transmitting the upload token to the end-user communication device;

receiving at the hosted services server, a token validation call from the hosted proxy server;

transmitting a validation message from the hosted services server to the hosted proxy server configured to authorize transmission of the first media file from the hosted proxy server to a media sharing site using credentials of the hosted services server,

receiving, at the hosted services server, a unique identification representing a location of the first media file on the media sharing site, wherein the first media file comprises a plurality of sequential images; and

conducting at one or more of the hosted proxy server and the hosted services server, image analytics on at least a portion of the plurality of sequential images to determine a tag for the media file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the validation of the user of the end-user communication device is conducted without the end-user device providing any credentials to the media sharing site and in which the end-user device is does not transmit any credentials specific to the media sharing site as part of the validation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the token validation call from the hosted proxy server is in response to the hosted proxy server receiving the upload token and either:

(1) the first media file from the end-user communication device;

or (2) a request from the end-user communication device to upload the first media file to the hosted proxy server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the end-user communication device, a unique identification representing a location of the media file on the media sharing site.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the end-user communication device is a first end-user communication device, and the method further comprising:

storing the file or a portion thereof on the hosted proxy server, wherein the file stored on the hosted proxy server and the media sharing site is retrievable by the first end-user communication device, and the file stored on the hosted proxy server is not retrievable by a second end-user communication device.