Generating offline content

• US 9,904,720 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2013
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Linsalata, David, Kansal, Rajat, Gousev, Alexei, Nomikos, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): Trujillo, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shechtman, Cheryl M
• Application Number:
  US14/030,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20150081630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,623 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a user of a client computing device and when the client computing device is disconnected from an on-line service, input associated with the on-line service. The method further includes locally storing or modifying locally stored content associated with the on-line service based on the input. The client computing device may determine data contemporaneous with the content and locally associate the data with the content. The method further includes automatically uploading the content as locally stored or modified and the data locally associated with the content to the on-line service when the client computing device is connected to the on-line service.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a client computing device associated with a user, receiving input in relation to a content item of an on-line service, wherein the client computing device is disconnected from the on-line service when the input is received;

by the client computing device, based on the input, locally storing the content item or modifying the locally stored content item in an offline version of the on-line service;

by the client computing device, determining a time when the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service; and

by the client computing device, when the client computing device is connected to the online service, automatically uploading the content item to the on-line service, wherein the uploaded content item is inserted into a position determined relative to a plurality of other content items stored by the on-line service based on a comparison between the time when the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service times associated with the other content items.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying locally stored content comprises one or more of:

editing the content;

deleting the content;

or

adding to the content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the online service comprises a social-networking system, the social-networking system comprising a graph that comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein at least one other node in the graph corresponds to each of one or more other users, at least one of the nodes corresponding to the user and at least one of the nodes corresponding to one of the other users being connected to each other by one or more of the edges.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the automatically uploaded content is associated with a notification displayed to one or more of the other users of the social network.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating with the uploaded content a privacy setting identifying one or more other users of the online service that may view or interact with the uploaded content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the uploaded content comprises one or more images and the other content items comprise one or more previously-uploaded images.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a location of the client computing device at the time the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service; and

associating the location with the uploaded content item.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, by the client computing device, whether to connect the client device to the online service based on a setting determined at least in part by the user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the setting is based on one or more of:

a connection between the client computing device and the on-line service;

an amount of data to be uploaded to the on-line service;

or

a type of the content uploaded.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the uploaded content item and at least one of the plurality of other content items are presented in an order corresponding to their relative positions.

12. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

receive from a user of the client computing device input in relation to a content item of an on-line service, wherein the client computing device is disconnected from the on-line service when the input is received;

based on the input, locally store the content item or modify the locally stored content item in an offline version of the on-line service;

determine a time when the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service; and

when the client computing device is connected to the on-line service, automatically upload the content item to the on-line service, wherein the uploaded content item is inserted into a position determined relative to a plurality of other content items stored by the on-line service based on a comparison between the time when the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service and times associated with the other content items.

13. The media of claim 12, wherein the online service comprises a social-networking system, the social-networking system comprising a graph that comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the user.

14. The media of claim 13, wherein at least one other node in the graph corresponds to each of one or more other users, at least one of the nodes corresponding to the user and at least one of the nodes corresponding to one of the other users being connected to each other by one or more of the edges.

15. The media of claim 14, wherein the automatically uploaded content is associated with a notification displayed to one or more of the other users of the social network.

16. The media of claim 12, wherein the software is further operable when executed to associate with the uploaded content a privacy setting identifying one or more other users of the online service that may view or interact with the uploaded content.

17. The media of claim 12, wherein the software is further operable when executed to:

determine a location of the client computing device at the time the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service; and

associate the location with the uploaded content item.

18. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

receive from a user of a client computing device input in relation to a content item of an on-line service, wherein the client computing device is disconnected from the on-line service when the input is received;

based on the input, locally store the content item or modify the locally stored content item in an offline version of the on-line service;

determine a time when the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service; and

when the client computing device is connected to the on-line service, automatically upload the content item to the on-line service, wherein the uploaded content item is inserted into a position determined relative to a plurality of other content items stored by the on-line service based on a comparison between the time when the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service and times associated with the other content items.

19. A method comprising:

by a server computing device associated with an on-line service, receiving, from a client device, data corresponding to a user input made in relation to a content item of the on-line service, wherein the input was provided to the client computing device during a time that the client computing device was disconnected from the on-line service;

by the server computing device, storing the content item or modifying, based on the data, a stored instance of the content item;

by the server computing device, determining a time when the content item was posted to an offline version of the on-line service stored on the client computing device; and

by the server computing device, associating with the stored content item a position determined relative to a plurality of other content items stored by the on-line service, the position based on a comparison between the time when the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service and times associated with the other content items.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein modifying a stored instance of the content item comprises one or more of:

editing the content;

deleting the content;

or

adding to the content.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the online service comprises a social-networking system, the social-networking system comprising a graph that comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the user.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein at least one other node in the graph corresponds to each of one or more other users, at least one of the nodes corresponding to the user and at least one of the nodes corresponding to one of the other users being connected to each other by one or more of the edges.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the stored or modified content is associated with a notification displayed to one or more of the other users of the social network.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the data comprises a privacy setting identifying one or more other users of the online service that may view or interact with the uploaded content.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein the stored or modified content comprises one or more images and the other content items comprise one or more previously-uploaded images.

26. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

by the server computing device, receiving information identifying a location of the client computing device at the time the content item was posted to the offline version of the on-line service; and

associating the location with the stored or modified content item.

27. The method of claim 19, wherein the stored content item and at least one of the plurality of other content items are presented in an order corresponding to their relative positions.