Techniques to modify and share binary content when disconnected from a network

• US 8,433,765 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2010
• Issued: 04/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Dolin, Robert M
• Primary Examiner(s): Whipple, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US12/818,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20110314528A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata

Abstract

Techniques to modify and share binary objects when disconnected from a network are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory. The memory may be operative to store a media annotation component and a media publishing component. The media annotation component, when executed by the processor, may be operative to receive a list of related members having a defined relationship with a publishing member from a user account of the publishing member of a media sharing service when in an online mode, and generate metadata for a media object using the list of related members when in an offline mode to form an annotated media object. The media publishing component, when executed by the processor, may be operative to define at least one instruction to distribute the annotated media object to a related member when in the online mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a list of related members having a defined relationship with a publishing member from a user account of a media sharing service when in an online mode;

associating an image of a person presented in a media object with a related member from the list of related members when in an offline mode;

generating metadata for the media object based on the association between the image of the person presented in the media object and the related member when in the offline mode;

generating an object record comprising a user name, an account name, an object name, and the metadata, to form an annotated media object from the media object and the object record;

defining one or more instructions to share the annotated media object with a related member when in the offline mode; and

storing the one or more instructions in an instruction queue when in the offline mode for execution when in the online mode.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising executing the one or more instructions to share the annotated media object with the related member when in the online mode in a sequential manner or a parallel manner.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising managing multiple sets of connection information for multiple user accounts of multiple media sharing services, each set of connection information including an account identifier and security credentials to access each user account of each media sharing service.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising automatically connecting to the user account of the media sharing service when in the online mode using a set of connection information including an account identifier and security credentials for the user account.

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

receiving a list of media albums and media channels for the user account of the media sharing service when in the online mode; and

storing the list of related members, the list of media albums, and the list of media channels in an account profile for the user account.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising generating a metadata tag with identification information for the related member when in the offline mode.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising storing a metadata tag with identification information for the related member as part of hierarchical set of metadata terms when in the offline mode.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising defining an instruction to publish the annotated media object to a media album for a user account of a media sharing service when in the offline mode.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising defining an instruction to publish the annotated media object to a media channel for a user account of a media sharing service when in the offline mode.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising defining an instruction to send the annotated media object to the related member using a messaging application when in the offline mode.

11. An article comprising a storage device containing instructions that if executed enable a system to receive a list of related members having a defined relationship with a publishing member from a user account of the publishing member of a media sharing service when in an online mode, associate an image of a person presented in a media object with a related member from the list of related members when in an offline mode, generate metadata for the media object using the list of related members when in the offline mode, generate an object record comprising a user name, an account name, an object name, and the metadata, to form an annotated media object from the media object and the object record, and define at least one instruction to distribute the annotated media object to a related member when in the online mode.

12. The article of claim 11, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to edit one or more properties of the media object or the annotated media object.

13. The article of claim 11, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to manage multiple sets of connection information for multiple media sharing services including the one or more media sharing services from which the one or more media objects were received, with each set of connection information including an account identifier and security credentials for a user account of a given media sharing service.

14. The article of claim 11, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to automatically connect to the user account of the media sharing service when in the online mode using a set of connection information including an account identifier and security credentials for the user account.

15. The article of claim 11, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to receive data or metadata associated with the publishing member from a user account of the publishing member of the media sharing service when in an online mode, generate metadata for the media object using the data or metadata associated with the publishing member when in an offline mode to form the annotated media object.

16. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory to store a media annotation component and a media publishing component, the media annotation component when executed by the processor operative to receive a list of related members having a defined relationship with a publishing member from a user account of the publishing member of a media sharing service when in an online mode, associate an image of a person presented in a media object with a related member from the list of related members when in an offline mode, and generate metadata for the media object using the list of related members when in the offline mode, generate an object record comprising a user name, an account name, an object name, and the metadata, to form an annotated media object from the media object and the object record, and the media publishing component when executed by the processor operative to define at least one instruction to distribute the annotated media object to a related member when in the online mode.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, the media annotation component operative to associate a portion of an image of a person presented in the media object with a related member from the list of related members when in an offline mode, and generate metadata for the media object based on the association between the person presented in the media object and the related member to form the annotated media object when in the offline mode.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, comprising a connection component operative to manage multiple sets of connection information for multiple user accounts of multiple media sharing services, each set of connection information including an account identifier and security credentials to access each user account of each media sharing service, and automatically connecting to the user account of the media sharing service when in the online mode using a set of connection information including an account identifier and security credentials for the user account.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, comprising an instruction queue component operative to manage storing the at least one instruction in an instruction queue when in the offline mode, and executing the at least one instruction from the instruction queue when in the online mode.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, comprising a messaging application operative to communicate the annotated media object with the media sharing service or the related member.