Organizing documents through utilization of people tags

• US 8,397,156 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2009
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Thornton, John Michael, Brodie, Alexander S., Ferguson, Bryan P., Pulamanthole Pisharathu, Ananda Narayanan, Pinson, Samuel James, Satchithanantham, Shanjeef
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US12/560,455
• Publication Number:
  US 20110067087A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/201, 715/202, 715/204, 715/205, 715/209, 715/210, 715/226, 715/229, 715/234, 715/243, 715/244, 715/247, 715/251, 715/254, 715/255, 715/256, 715/273, 715/700, 715/760, 715/277, 715/733, 715/738, 715/739, 715/746, 715/751, 715/752, 715/756, 715/762, 707/621, 707/654, 707/705, 707/707, 707/805, 707/912, 707/913, 707/915, 707/917, 707/951, 707/953, 707/964, 707/999.009, 707/E17.019, 707/E17.02
• US Class Current: 715/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A method disclosed herein includes the acts of receiving a document that has a people tag assigned thereto, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that corresponds to the document, and wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor, and accessing contact data pertaining to a second individual, wherein the contact data comprises second data that is indicative of identities of contacts of the second individual, wherein the second data comprises data that is indicative of the identity of the first individual. The method also includes comparing the contact data with the first data, and displaying the document on a computer screen in conjunction with text that identifies the first individual to the third individual, wherein the text indicates a name of the first individual as assigned to the first individual by the second individual.

Claims

1. A method comprising the following computer-executable acts:

receiving a document that has a people tag assigned thereto, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that corresponds to the document, wherein the first data comprises a unique identifier assigned to the first individual by a service, and wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor;

receiving identification authentication data from a second individual;

transmitting the identification authentication data to the service;

subsequent to transmitting the identification authentication data to the service, receiving contact data from the service pertaining to the second individual, wherein the contact data comprises data that is indicative of identities of contacts of the second individual, and wherein the contact data further comprises the unique identifier assigned to the first individual by the service;

accessing the contact data

comparing the contact data with the first data, the comparing comprising determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the unique identifier; and

displaying the document on a computer screen in conjunction with text that identifies the first individual to the second individual based at least in part upon determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the unique identifier, wherein the text indicates a name of the first individual as assigned to the first individual by the second individual.

2. The method of claim 1 configured for execution on a personal computing device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the personal computing device is one of a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a gaming console, or a mobile media player.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the document is an image.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the people tag is assigned to a particular position in the image.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a selection of the document from the second individual; and

displaying the image on the computer screen, wherein displaying the digital image comprises displaying the text that identifies the first individual at the particular position in the digital image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data comprises an email address of the first individual, and wherein the contact data comprises the email address of the first individual, and further comprising:

when comparing the contact data with the first data, determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the email address of the first individual; and

causing the text to be displayed in conjunction with the graphical item that represents document based at least in part upon determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the email address of the first individual.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data comprises a name assigned to the first individual by the assignor, and wherein the contact data comprises the name assigned to the first individual by the second individual, and further comprising:

when comparing the contact data with the first data, determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the name of the first individual; and

causing the text to be displayed in conjunction with the graphical item that represents the document based at least in part upon determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the name of the first individual.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the name assigned by the second individual for the first individual is different from a name assigned by the assignor for the first individual, wherein the name assigned by the assignor for first individual is included in the first data and the name assigned by the second individual for the first individual is included in the contact data.

10. A system that facilitates selectively organizing documents on a personal computing device, the system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that comprises a plurality of components that are executed by the processor, the plurality of components comprising;

a matcher component that undertakes a comparison between content of a people tag assigned to a document with contact data, wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor, wherein the people tag is representative of a first individual that corresponds to the document, wherein the people tag comprises data that is indicative of an identity of the first individual, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the first individual comprises a unique identifier assigned to the first individual by a service, wherein the contact data comprises data pertaining to contacts of a second individual signed into the service, the contact data received at the personal computing device from the service responsive to the second individual providing authentication data to the service, wherein the contact data comprises the unique identifier, and wherein the matcher component locates a particular contact represented in the contact data that corresponds to the first individual based at least in part upon the comparison; and

an organizer component that automatically organizes the document amongst a plurality of other documents by causing the document to be associated with a graphical item that represents the particular contact of the second individual, wherein the graphical item has text corresponding thereto that is assigned by the second individual to identify the first individual, wherein the organizer component selectively displays the document together with the text that identifies the second individual based at least in part upon the people tag comprising the unique identifier and the contact data comprising the unique identifier.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the document is one of an image or a video.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the personal computing device comprises the matcher component and the organizer component.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the people tag comprises an email address corresponding to the second individual and the contact data comprises the email address, wherein the organizer component selectively displays the document together with the text that identifies the second individual based at least in part upon the people tag comprising the email address and the contact data comprising the email address.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the matcher component receives a plurality of documents that have a plurality of people tags assigned thereto, wherein the people tags comprise data that is indicative of identities of a plurality of individuals, wherein the matcher component compares content of the people tags with the contact data, and wherein the organizer component automatically organizes the plurality of documents with respect to contacts of the second individual based at least in part upon the comparison.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the people tag is assigned to a particular position in the document.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of components further comprises an identifier component that receives identity authentication data from the second individual and transfers the authentication data to the service responsive to receipt of the identity authentication data.

17. A computer-readable data storage device comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:

receiving an image, wherein the image comprises a people tag assigned thereto by an assignor, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that is included in the image, wherein the first data comprises a unique identifier assigned to the first individual by a service;

receiving contact data pertaining to a plurality of contacts of a second individual responsive to the second individual providing identification authentication data to the service, wherein the contact data comprises data that is indicative of identities of the contacts of the second individual, wherein the first individual is a contact of the second individual, and wherein the contact data comprises the unique identifier and second data generated by the second individual to identify the first individual to the second individual;

comparing the first data with the contact data, the comparing comprising determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the unique identifier;

determining that the first individual is a contact of the second individual based at least in part upon the comparing of the first data with the contact data; and

causing the image to be displayed in conjunction with the second data when the second individual is logged into the service at a computing device being utilized to view the image based at least in part upon the first data comprising the unique identifier and the contact data comprising the unique identifier.

18. The computer-readable data storage device of claim 17, wherein the first data comprises an email address of the first individual, and wherein the contact data comprises the email address of the first individual, and the instructions further comprising:

when comparing the contact data with the first data, determining that both the contact data and the first data comprise the email address of the first individual; and

causing the image to be displayed in conjunction with the second data when the second individual is logged into the service at the computing device being utilized to view the image based at least in part upon the contact data comprising the email address of the first individual and the first data comprising the email address of the first individual.

19. The computer-readable data storage device of claim 17, wherein the first data comprises a name assigned to the first individual by the assignor, wherein the second data comprises a name assigned to the first individual by the second individual, and the instructions further comprising:

when comparing the contact data with the first data, determining that the name assigned to the first individual by the assignor and the name assigned to the first individual by the second individual are identical; and

causing the image to be displayed in conjunction with the second data when the second individual is logged into the service at the computing device being utilized to view the image based at least in part upon the determining that the name assigned to the first individual by the assignor and the name assigned to the first individual by the second individual are identical.

20. The computer-readable data storage device of claim 17 comprised by a mobile telephone.