Method of exchanging photos with interface content provider website

• US 8,990,338 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2010
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Mitra, Christopher A., Brahmbhatt, Milan S., Shah, Anish M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mejia, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US12/878,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20110150362A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,657 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/217, 709/219, 382/298, 382/286
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/162 Delete operations erasing in storage systems G06F3/0652
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00228 Image push arrangements, e.g. from an image reading device to a specific network destination push-based network services H04L67/55
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0023 Image pull arrangements, e.g. to a multifunctional peripheral from a networked computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2179 Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32422 Reprocessing messages, e.g. in case the intended destination is busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32475 Changing the format of the data, e.g. parallel to serial or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0065 Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera

Abstract

A photo is received from a mobile device. The photo is stored at an intermediary server. The photo is formatted at the intermediary server for at least one content provider website. The photo is transmitted to the at least one content provider website. Another method downloads a photo. The method receives in an intermediary web server, content from a content provider website. The content includes at least a photo. The intermediary server determines if the photo is new. If the photo is new, the intermediary server determines if the photo is properly formatted for the mobile device client program and sends the content including the photo to a user device including the client program.

Claims

1. A method for uploading a photo, comprising:

receiving, at an intermediary server a photo from a mobile device;

caching, the photo at the intermediary server for a predetermined time period;

determining, at the intermediary server whether the photo meets respective photo requirements set by at least one social networking website;

formatting, at the intermediary server, the photo according to respective photo requirements set by the at least one social networking website; and

transmitting, the formatted photo to the at least one social networking website;

extending, the predetermined time period each time the photo is uploaded to a different social networking website; and

deleting, the photo at the intermediary server, at the end of the predetermined time period.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step of formatting further includes formatting the photo for a plurality of different content provider websites, the photo formatted according to the respective photo requirements of each content provider web site prior to sending to each respective website.

3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the photos are cached at the intermediary server for storage and later uploaded to different systems without requiring the photo to be uploaded again from the mobile device.

4. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the photo is uploaded from a mobile device to the intermediary server with an identity (ID) of said at least one social networking website.

5. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising sending, by the intermediary server, a message with a photo ID associated with the received photo back to the mobile device.

6. The method as defined in claim 5, wherein the photo ID identifies a location or pointer to a location where the photo is stored at the intermediary server.

7. The method as defined in claim 5, wherein the mobile device associates the photo ID with a name of the photo stored in the mobile device.

8. The method as defined in claim 7, where the mobile device sends the photo ID to the intermediary server and the intermediary server responds to the photo ID to retrieve the photo from the cache and forward it to another social networking website.

9. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the respective photo requirements are at least one of dimensions and size requirement of a photo.

10. The method as defined in claim 9, wherein if the respective photo requirements are met, a back-end portion of the intermediary server sends the photo to a site of the social networking website.

11. The method as defined in claim 9, wherein if the respective photo requirements are not met, the photo is reformatted in a back-end portion of the intermediary server to resize the photo, whereby the resized photo is formatted according to the respective photo requirements set by the social networking website.

12. The method as defined in claim 11, wherein in order to resize the photo to a size requirement, a resize factor is determined.

13. The method as defined in claim 12, wherein an algorithm used to determine the resize factor is:

x/100=((t−

f)/(kc))A(0.5)

x is a resize percent,

t is the target size in bytes,

f is a fudge factor for the file size,

k is a constant factor, and

c is the original size of the photo'"'"'s file size in bytes.