Interactive management of distributed objects

• US 9,734,174 B1
• Filed: 06/28/2013
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Scheffler, Jens, Mehrotra, Kapil, Schumacher, Jeff Scott, Probst, Kathrin
• Primary Examiner(s): Ruiz, Angelica
• Application Number:
  US13/931,726
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-831, 707899, 707999001-999206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A digital object provider creates an object, such as an offer, and associates container-specific handlers with the object so that the object can be associated with a specific container. An object management application manages receives and displays the object on a user computing device, along with a first user control option to associate the object with a container. When the user selects the first option, the object management application relies on the associated container-specific handlers to determine which containers are available for associating the object. The object management application provides the user with a second control option, from which the user selects one or more of the available containers with which to associate the object. Based on the user'"'"'s selection, the object management application communicates the object to the selected containers, such as for storage in the container. The container receives the object and associates the object with the container.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method to act on digital data objects, comprising:

receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital data object, wherein the digital data object comprises a plurality of digital data object handlers that each correspond to a respective one or more of a plurality of digital data object containers;

providing, by the one or more computing devices, a first option control for a user to select an action with respect to the digital data object;

receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a first selection of the first option control;

providing, by the one or more computing devices and in response to receiving the first selection, a second option control for the user to select a specific digital data object container from among the digital data object containers corresponding to the digital data object handlers of the digital data object;

receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a second selection of the second option control, wherein the second selection identifies a specific digital data object container; and

performing, by the one or more computing devices and in response to receiving the second selection, the selected action on the digital data object with respect to the specific digital data object container using the digital data object handler corresponding to the specific digital data object container.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of digital data object containers comprises a digital wallet.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the digital data object comprises one of an offer, a ticket, or a calendar event.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein

providing the second option control comprises:

identifying, by the one or more computing devices, the digital data object handlers of the digital data object; and

determining, by the one or more computing devices, the respective digital data object containers to which the identified digital data object handlers correspond.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the selected action comprises at least one of save the digital data object, purchase a product corresponding to the digital data object, and track a delivery associated with the digital data object.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein performing the selected action comprises communicating, by the one or more computing devices, identifying information of the user to the digital data object container.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the identifying information of the user permits the digital data object container to identify a digital data object container account of the user.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating, by the one or more computing devices, the digital data object with a record of digital data objects of the user;

comparing, by the one or more computing devices, the associated digital data object with a second digital data object of the record;

determining, by the one or more computing devices and in response to the comparison the digital data object associated with the record of the user with a second digital data object, that the associated digital data object is a repeat digital data object; and

communicating, by the one or more computing devices, to the user that the associated digital data object is a repeat digital data object of the second digital data object.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein providing the first option control or the second option control comprises displaying, by the one or more computing devices, the first option control or the second option control on a user interface.

10. A system to provide object management, comprising:

a storage device;

a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to;

provide a first option control for a user to select an action with respect to a digital data object, the digital data object comprising a plurality of digital data object handlers, each digital data object handler corresponding to one or more data digital object containers;

receive a first selection of the first option control;

provide, in response to receiving the first selection, a second option control for the user to select a specific digital data object container from among the one or more digital data object containers corresponding to the digital data object handlers of the digital data object;

receive a second selection of the second option control, wherein the second selection of the second option control identifies the specific digital data object container; and

perform, in response to receiving the second selection, the selected action on the received digital data object with respect to the specific digital data object container using the digital data object handler corresponding to the specific digital data object container.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the digital data object comprises one of an offer, a ticket, or a calendar event.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein providing the second option control comprises:

identifying the digital data object handlers of the digital data object; and

determining the respective digital data object containers to which the identified digital data object handlers correspond.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the selected action comprises at least one of save the digital data object, purchase a product corresponding to the digital data object, and track a delivery associated with the digital data object.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein performing the selected action comprises communicating identifying information of the user to the digital data object container in connection with the digital data object.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the identifying information of the user permits the digital data object container to identify a digital data object container account of the user.

16. A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable storage device having computer-readable program instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer cause the computer to act on digital data objects, the computer-executable program instructions comprising;

computer program instructions to provide a first option control for a user to select an action with respect to a digital data object, the digital data object comprising a plurality of digital data object handlers, each digital data object handler corresponding to one or more digital data object containers;

computer program instructions to receive a first selection of the first option control;

computer program instructions to provide, in response to receiving the first selection, a second option control for the user to select a specific digital data object container from among the one or more digital data object containers corresponding to the digital data object handlers of the digital data object;

computer program instructions to receive a second selection of the second option control, wherein the second selection of the second option control identifies the specific digital data object container; and

computer program instructions to perform, in response to receiving the second selection, the selected action on the received digital data object with respect to the specific digital data object container using the digital data object handler corresponding to the specific digital data object container.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein

providing the second option control comprises:

identifying the digital data object handlers of the digital data object; and

determining the respective digital data object containers to which the identified digital data object handlers correspond.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the selected action comprises at least one of save the digital data object, purchase a product corresponding to the digital data object, and track a delivery associated with the digital data object.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein performing the selected action comprises communicating identifying information of the user to the digital data object container in connection with the digital data object.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the identifying information of the user permits the digital data object container to identify a digital data object container account of the user.