Electronic devices for capturing media content and transmitting the media content to a network accessible media repository and methods of operating the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10021154-B2
Application number	US-201414518360-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2014
Priority date	Oct 31, 2006
Publication date	Jul 10, 2018
Grant date	Jul 10, 2018

Abstract

A client device is operated by obtaining a list of contacts, wherein the list of contacts includes contact information of authorized users, recording media content, defining a selected recipient of the media content, and transmitting the media content and contact information of the selected recipient to a media repository system to enable the media repository system to compare an identification of a user requesting access to the media content from the media repository system with the contact information of the selected recipient and to enable a communication device of the user to access the media content from the media repository system responsive to a determination that the contact information of the selected recipient matches the identification of the user. The media content includes audio, video, and/or image content.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
obtaining a list of contacts, wherein the list of contacts comprises contact information of authorized users;
recording media content, responsive to receiving a record command from a first input, wherein the media content comprises one of audio content, video content, and image content, or a combination thereof;
defining a selected recipient of the media content from the list of contacts responsive to a second input that invokes a selection of contact information from the list of contacts, wherein the selected recipient is authorized to retrieve the media content from a media repository system;
associating particular contact information of the selected recipient with the media content; and
transmitting the media content in combination with the particular contact information of the selected recipient contemporaneously to the media repository system,
wherein the media repository system compares an identification of a user requesting to retrieve the media content from the media repository system with the contact information of the selected recipient to enable a communication device of the user to retrieve the media content from the media repository system responsive to a determination that the particular contact information of the selected recipient matches the identification of the user, wherein the first input and the second input are received consecutively so that the enabling the communication device to retrieve the media content is done in real time with a recording of the media content.

2. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the media content is recorded at a mobile communications device.

3. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 2 , wherein the recording of the media content comprises recording at least a portion of the media content during a call communication session of a mobile client device.

4. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the defining the selected recipient is performed responsive to receiving an input via a user interface of a mobile communications device.

5. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 4 , wherein the recording the media content, the obtaining the list of contacts, the defining the selected recipient, and the transmitting the media content are performed responsive to a single prompt provided via the user interface.

6. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 4 , wherein the user interface comprises a soft record key, and wherein an invocation of a media content record function is responsive to a selection of the soft record key.

7. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 4 , wherein the user interface comprises a hard record key, and wherein an invocation of a media content record function is responsive to a selection of the hard record key.

8. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the media content comprises audio content.

9. The non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the list of contacts is performed at a mobile communications device, and
wherein the mobile communications device comprises an Internet Protocol device that communicates via a session initiation protocol.

10. A method, comprising:
obtaining, by a processing server comprising a processor, media content and a list of authorized users contemporaneously from a mobile communications device, wherein the list of authorized users is from a list of contacts of the mobile communications device permitted to receive the media content, and wherein the media content is recorded responsive to a first input to initiate a record command;
associating, by the processing server, the media content with the list of authorized users as being authorized to retrieve the media content from a network accessible media repository responsive to a second input that invokes a selection of contact information from the list of authorized users to define the list of authorized users;
obtaining, by the processing server, a request for the media content from communication devices;
facilitating, by the processing server, the communication devices to obtain the media content when users of the communication devices correspond to the list of authorized users, wherein the network accessible media repository compares an identification of a user requesting to retrieve the media content from the network accessible media repository with contact information of the authorized users, wherein the first input and the second input are received consecutively so that the facilitating the communication devices to obtain the media content is done in real time with a recording of the media content; and
obtaining, by the processing server, additional media content from the mobile communications devices for the network accessible media repository, wherein the media content comprises video content.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving, by the processing server, a request to access the media content as received request; and
transmitting, by the processing server, the media content to a communication device of a communication device that sent the received request responsive to a determination that the received request is on the list of authorized users.

12. A media repository system, comprising:
a processing system including a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
recording media content responsive to receiving a record command from a first input, wherein the media content comprises one of audio content, video content, and image content, or a combination thereof;
defining a selected recipient of the media content from a list of contacts responsive to a second input that invokes a selection of contact information from the list of contacts, wherein the selected recipient is authorized to retrieve the media content from a media repository system;
obtaining the media content in combination with the selected recipient for the media content from a first communication device;
receiving a request for the media content from a second communications device; comparing an identification of a user of the second communication device requesting access to the media content with the contact information for the selected recipient; and enabling the second communication device to access the media content from the media repository system responsive to a determination that the contact information of the selected recipient matches the identification of the user, wherein the first input and the second input are received consecutively so that the enabling the second communication device to access the media content is done in real time with a recording of the media content.

13. The media repository system of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a recording of an event as the media content as the first communications device records the event.

14. The media repository system of claim 13 , wherein the receiving the recording of the media content is during a call communication session of the first communications device.

15. The media repository system of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a request to store the media content from the second communications device.

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp
• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Denny Michael
• Nguyen Hong

Classifications

• H04N21/6334

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• H04L67/32

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