Automatic content creation based on group collaboration spaces

• US 9,319,227 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Neer, Robert, Goran, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Manglesh M
• Application Number:
  US13/247,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20120079396A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,665 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/751, 715/745, 715/798
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference

Abstract

Devices described herein are configured to receive a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users and provide the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space. In some embodiments, the group of users is a social network or social network group. The devices are further configured to automatically create a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based on the post, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a plurality of executable instructions configured to be implemented by the one or more processors to perform operations including;

receiving input that graphically manipulates a representation of a collaboration space shared by a group of users by bringing the representation into contact or proximity with a representation of a second collaboration space to merge the collaboration space with the second collaboration space;

creating a resulting, merged collaboration space based at least in part on the received input; and

responsive to creating the resulting, merged collaboration space, automatically creating a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users, wherein the content item is not included in a post to any of the collaboration space, the second collaboration space, or the resulting, merged collaboration space received from any of the users and is accessible through a user interface of the application.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the automatic creating comprises automatically creating, for each member of the group of users, a content item associated with an application of each device of each member based on the post.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the post is responsive to a selection of one of a plurality of controls of a user interface associated with the collaboration space, each control associated with a different application or content item type.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the automatic creating is based at least in part on which control of the plurality of controls is selected.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise updating a database associated with the collaboration space to include the post and/or a database associated with the application to include the content item.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise providing the post to a database of a server associated collaboration space to update the database to include the post.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the group of users comprises a social network or a group within the social network.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the application is an application provided by the social network that is separate and distinct from the collaboration space.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein a user interface associated with the collaboration space appears as a representation of a paper note with one or more posts in the collaboration space displayed in the paper note as text and/or graphics.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the resulting, merged collaboration space is automatically associated with an application or content item type.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise automatically enhancing the post with additional information based on characteristics of at least one member of the group of users.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise receiving the post and providing the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the resulting, merged collaboration space.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the application is one of a photo gallery, an event list, a calendar, a poll repository, a list repository, an audio library, or a video library and the content item is a corresponding one of a photo, an event, a calendar appointment, a poll question, a list, an audio file, or a video file.

14. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving input that graphically manipulates a representation of a collaboration space shared by a group of users by bringing the representation into contact or proximity with a representation of a second collaboration space to merge the collaboration space with the second collaboration space;

creating a resulting, merged collaboration space based at least in part on the received input; and

responsive to creating the resulting, merged collaboration space, automatically creating a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users, wherein the content item is not included in a post to any of the collaboration space, the second collaboration space, or the resulting, merged collaboration space received from any of the users and is accessible through a user interface of the application.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising receiving the post and providing the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the resulting, merged collaboration space.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the application is one of a photo gallery, an event list, a calendar, a poll repository, a list repository, an audio library, or a video library and the content item is a corresponding one of a photo, an event, a calendar appointment, a poll question, a list, an audio file, or a video file.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the group of users comprises a social network or a group within the social network.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computing device, perform operations comprising:

receiving input that graphically manipulates a representation of a collaboration space shared by a group of users by bringing the representation into contact or proximity with a representation of a second collaboration space to merge the collaboration space with the second collaboration space;

creating a resulting, merged collaboration space based at least in part on the received input; and

responsive to creating the resulting, merged collaboration space, automatically creating a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users, wherein the content item is not included in a post to any of the collaboration space, the second collaboration space, or the resulting, merged collaboration space received from any of the users and is accessible through a user interface of the application.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise receiving the post and providing the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the resulting, merged collaboration space.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the application is one of a photo gallery, an event list, a calendar, a poll repository, a list repository, an audio library, or a video library and the content item is a corresponding one of a photo, an event, a calendar appointment, a poll question, a list, an audio file, or a video file.