Systems and methods for image sharing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10038656-B2
Application number	US-201514742832-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2015
Priority date	Jun 28, 2013
Publication date	Jul 31, 2018
Grant date	Jul 31, 2018

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for image sharing. For example, a terminal sends to a server a conversation-processing request to request to release a target conversation message from a current user of a messaging application to a conversation group; the server receives the conversation-processing request, acquires the target conversation message from the conversation-processing request, determines whether the target conversation message includes a first image; in response to the target conversation message including a first image, the server stores the first image in a shared album corresponding to the conversation group and forward the target conversation message to members of the conversation group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An image-sharing method comprising: sending, by a terminal, to a server a conversation-processing request to request to release a target conversation message from a current user of a messaging application to a conversation group;
receiving, by the server, the conversation-processing request;
acquiring, by the server, the target conversation message from the conversation processing request, wherein the target conversation message includes property data identifying a shared album associated with the conversation group;
determining, by the server, whether the target conversation message includes a first image;
after the determining whether the target conversation message includes a first image and in response to the determining that the target conversation message including includes a first image,
determining whether the first image is a duplicate of one or more second images stored in the shared album; and
in response to the first image not being the duplicate of the second image stored in the shared album,
storing, by the server, the first image in the shared album corresponding to the conversation group;
adding, by the server the first image to an image list of the shared album;
determining, by the server, whether the target conversation message includes a text;
after the determining whether the target conversation message includes a first image and in response to determining that the target conversation message includes the text,
storing, by the server, the text in a shared album as a comment on the first image; and
after the determining whether the target conversation message includes a first image and in response to the determining that the target conversation message does not include a first image:
determining, by the server, whether the target conversation message includes a text;
after the determining whether the target conversation message includes a text and in response to the determining that the target conversation message includes the text and does not include the first image, acquiring, by the server, a release time of a recent image released in the conversation group;
determining, by the server, whether the release time of the recent image is within a preset scope, and
in response to the determining that the release time of the recent image is within the preset scope, storing, by the server, the text in the shared album as a first comment on the recent image; and
forwarding, by the server, the target conversation message to members of the conversation group.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by a terminal used by a member of the conversation group, to the server a view request to view the shared album;
upon receipt of the view request,
pulling, by the server, an image list of the shared album; and returning the image list to the terminal used by the member; and
displaying, by the terminal used by the member, the shared album according to the image list.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein one or more second images in the shared album displayed on the terminal used by the member correspond to one or more comments.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the displaying, by the terminal used by the member, the shared album according to the image list includes:
displaying one or more second images of the shared album according to release times of the second images.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the storing, by the server, the first image in a shared album corresponding to the conversation group includes:
determining whether the first image conforms to a preset criterion; and
in response to the first image conforming to the preset criterion, storing the first image in the shared album of the conversation group.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the determining whether the first image conforms to a preset criterion includes:
determining whether a size of the first image reaches a preset size threshold; and
in response to the size of the first image reaches the preset size threshold, determining that the first image conforms to the preset criterion.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether the first image is a duplicate of one or more second images stored in the shared album includes:
comparing the first image with the one or more second images stored in the shared album;
calculating one or more similarity degrees between the first image and the one or more second images stored in the shared album;
in response to one of the one or more similarity degrees reaching a similarity threshold, determining that the first image is the duplicate of the one or more second images stored in the shared album; and
in response to the one or more similarity degrees not reaching the similarity threshold, determining that the first image is not the duplicate of the one or more second images stored in the shared album.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by the server, a storage prompt to the members of the conversation group, the storage prompt indicating that the first image is stored in the shared album.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by the server, an access message of the first image to the members of the conversation group, the access message including a storage path of the first image; and
upon receipt of the access message, generating and displaying, by one or more terminals used by the members of the conversation group, an access option for accessing the shared album to view the first image based on at least information associated with the access message.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the storing the text in the shared album as a comment on the recent image includes:
determining whether a first content and a first author of the text are the same as a second content and a second author of a second comment on the recent image respectively; and
in response to the first content and the first author of the text being not the same as the second content and the second author of the second comment on the recent image respectively, storing the text in the shared album as the first comment on the recent image.

11. An image-sharing method comprising:
receiving a conversation-processing request from a terminal, the conversation processing request being used to request to release a target conversation message from a current user of a messaging application to a conversation group;
acquiring the target conversation message from the conversation-processing request, wherein the target conversation message includes property data identifying a shared album associated with the conversation group;
determining whether the target conversation message includes a first image;
after the determining whether the target conversation message includes a first image and in response to the determining that the target conversation message including includes a first image,
determining whether the first image is a duplicate of one or more second images stored in the shared album; and
in response to the first image not being the duplicate of the second image stored in the shared album,
storing the first image in a shared album corresponding to the conversation group;
adding, by the server the first image to an image list of the shared album;
determining, by the server, whether the target conversation message includes a text;
after the determining whether the target conversation message includes a first image and in response to determining that the target conversation message includes the text,
storing, by the server, the text in a shared album as a comment on the first image; and
after the determining whether the target conversation message includes a f

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zheng Zhihao
• Qin Shuang

Classifications

• H04L51/08 Primary

  Annexed information, e.g. attachments · CPC title

• H04L67/141

  Setup of application sessions (admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70) · CPC title

• H04L67/1097 Primary

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• H04L51/32

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/52

  for supporting social networking services · CPC title