INITIALIZING CHAT SESSIONS BY POINTING TO CONTENT

• US 20140372540A1
• Filed: 04/25/2014
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bending Spoons SpA
• Original Assignee: Evernote Corp. (Bending Spoons SpA)
• Inventors: Libin, Phil
• Granted Patent: US 10,523,454 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission

Abstract

Integrating an application and a chat session includes a first user identifying content from the application, wherein the application is independent of any chat session, the first user initiating the chat session with at least a second user that is remote from the first user by transmitting the content from the first user to the second user, where the first and second user establish the chat session in response to the content being transmitted, and the first user and the second user sharing the content in connection with the chat session. The content may be a portion of a photograph, a portion of an image, a portion of text from a document, and/or a portion of a screen. The portion may be automatically identified following the user pointing and marking up the content. The first user may mark up the content before transmitting it to the second user.

Claims

1. A method of integrating an application and a chat session, comprising:

a first user identifying content from the application, wherein the application is independent of any chat session;

the first user initiating the chat session with at least a second user that is remote from the first user by transmitting the content from the first user to the second user, wherein the first and second user establish the chat session in response to the content being transmitted; and

the first user and the second user sharing the content in connection with the chat session.

2. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the content is at least one of:

a portion of a photograph, a portion of an image, a portion of text from a document, and a portion of a screen.

3. A method, according to claim 2, wherein the portion is automatically identified following the user pointing and marking up the content.

4. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the first user marks up the content before transmitting it to the second user.

5. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the first user initiates the chat with the content by at least one of:

a multi-touch gesture, a keyboard shortcut, and pointing an arrow drawn by software on a screen of a device containing the content.

6. A method, according to claim 1, wherein one of the users facilitates the chat session using an augmented reality system and the content is part of a real scene viewed by the one of the users with the augmented reality system.

7. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the second user is at least one of:

part of a list of participants defined by the first user and part of a list of participants engaging in recent chat sessions with the first user.

8. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the second user modifies and marks up the content.

9. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the second user is prohibited from at least one of:

marking up the content and modifying the content.

10. A method, according to claim 1, wherein, prior to transmission of the content, the first user selects from a set of standard comments/questions that are transmitted to the second user with the content.

11. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the first user confirms the content prior to transmission.

12. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the chat session runs simultaneously on multiple devices of each of the users.

13. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the application runs on a non-mobile device of one of the users and the chat session runs simultaneously on a mobile device of the one of the users.

14. A method, according to claim 13, wherein content is selected on the non-mobile device.

15. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the chat session is provided on a device using one of:

WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, Viber, Nimbuzz, iMessage, KakaoTalk, Facebook Messenger, TenCent QQ, WeChat, or Skype.

16. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the chat session is provided on a device using a browser.

17. A method, according to claim 1, wherein the chat session is a mobile chat session.

18. A method, according the claim 1, wherein the content is provided on at least one mobile device.

19. Computer software, provided in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, that integrates an application and a chat session, the software comprising:

executable code that identifies, for a first user, content from the application, wherein the application is independent of any chat session;

executable code that initiates, for the first user, the chat session with at least a second user that is remote from the first user by transmitting the content from the first user to the second user, wherein the first and second user establish the chat session in response to the content being transmitted; and

executable code that shares the content between the first user and the second user in connection with the chat session.

20. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the content is at least one of:

a portion of a photograph, a portion of an image, a portion of text from a document, and a portion of a screen.

21. Computer software, according to claim 20, wherein the portion is automatically identified following the user pointing and marking up the content.

22. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the content is marked up before being transmitted it to the second user.

23. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the chat is initiated using the content by at least one of:

a multi-touch gesture, a keyboard shortcut, and pointing an arrow drawn by software on a screen of a device containing the content.

24. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein an augmented reality system is used and the content is part of a real scene viewed by one of the users with the augmented reality system.

25. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the second user is at least one of:

part of a list of participants defined by the first user and part of a list of participants engaging in recent chat sessions with the first user.

26. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the second user modifies and marks up the content.

27. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the second user is prohibited from at least one of:

marking up the content and modifying the content.

28. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein, prior to transmission of the content, the first user selects from a set of standard comments/questions that are transmitted to the second user with the content.

29. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the first user confirms the content prior to transmission.

30. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the chat session runs simultaneously on multiple devices of each of the users.

31. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the application runs on a non-mobile device of one of the users and the chat session runs simultaneously on a mobile device of the one of the users.

32. Computer software, according to claim 31, wherein content is selected on the non-mobile device.

33. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the chat session is provided on a device using one of:

WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, Viber, Nimbuzz, iMessage, KakaoTalk, Facebook Messenger, TenCent QQ, WeChat, or Skype.

34. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the chat session is provided on a device using a browser.

35. Computer software, according to claim 19, wherein the chat session is a mobile chat session.

36. Computer software, according the claim 19, wherein the content is provided on at least one mobile device.