Cross-application content item management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10162517-B2
Application number	US-201615268256-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 16, 2016
Priority date	Sep 24, 2013
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

Techniques for cross-application content item management. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises detecting a touch gesture related to a representation of a content item displayed by a first application. And based at least in part on detecting the touch gesture, a different application performing a content management action on the content item. The content management action may encompass storing the content item in a content item collection, sharing the content item with a user account, uploading the content item to a server, or a combination thereof.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
at a client electronic device, detecting a touch gesture related to a representation of a content item, the representation displayed by a first application; and
based at least in part on the detecting the touch gesture, performing, at the client electronic device by a content management application associated with at least a first user account, a content management action on the content item, wherein the content management application is a different application from the first application;
wherein the performing the content management action on the content item causes:
storing a copy of the content item in a content item collection associated with the first user account,
sharing a copy of the content item with a second user account other than the first user account, or
storing a copy of the content item in the content item collection associated with the first user account and sharing a copy of the content item with the second user account other than the first user account.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the representation displayed by the first application comprises at least one of:
a portion of the content item,
a thumbnail of the content item,
a Uniform Resource Locator to the content item,
a pointer to the content item,
an identifier of a collection to which the content item belongs, metadata associated with the content item, or
attributes of the content item.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content item is a first content item and the representation is a second content item related to the first content item.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the touch gesture comprises a long press gesture.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first application and the content management application execute as different processes.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a first set of instructions implement the first application and a second different set of instructions implement the content management application.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the touch gesture is a first touch gesture;
the method further comprises detecting a second touch gesture, that is not the first touch gesture, wherein the second touch gesture selects the content item collection associated with the first user account;
the performing the content management action on the content item causes the storing the copy of the content item in the content item collection associated with the first user account; and
performing the content management action on the content item is based at least in part on the detecting the second touch gesture.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the touch gesture is a first touch gesture;
the method further comprises detecting a second touch gesture, that is not the first touch gesture, wherein the second touch gesture selects the second user account;
the performing the content management action on the content item causes the sharing the copy of the content item with the second user account; and
performing the content management action on the content item is based at least in part on the detecting the second touch gesture.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the representation of the content item displayed by the first application is displayed in a first user interface of the first application;
the method further comprises displaying a second user interface of the content management application that is not the first user interface of the first application; and
displaying the second user interface is based at least in part on the detecting the touch gesture.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining metadata about the content item;
wherein the performing the content management action on the content item causes:
selecting the content item collection based at least in part on the metadata about the content item; and
the storing the copy of the content item in the content item collection.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the touch gesture is a first touch gesture; and wherein the method further comprises:
detecting a second touch gesture that is not the first touch gesture; and
selecting the content management action to perform on the content item based at least in part on the second touch gesture detected.

12. A client electronic device comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of operations comprising:
detecting a touch gesture, related to a content item, received by a first application, the touch gesture detected at the client electronic device; and
based at least in part on the detecting the touch gesture, performing, at the client electronic device by a content management application associated with at least a first user account, a content management action on the content item, wherein the content management application is a different application from the first application;
wherein the performing the content management action on the content item comprises at causes:
storing a copy of the content item in a content item collection associated with the first user account,
sharing the copy of the content item with a second user account other than the first user account, or
storing the copy of the content item in the content item collection associated with the first user account and sharing the copy of the content item with the second user account other than the first user account.

13. The client electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the first application and the content management application execute as different processes on the client electronic device.

14. The client electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the content management action on the content item causes sharing the copy of the content item with the second user account other than the first user account; and wherein the sharing the copy of the content item with the second user account other than the first user account comprises sending a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to an e-mail address associated with the second user account.

15. The client electronic device of claim 12 , further comprising:
a touch screen display; and
wherein the touch gesture is detected via the touch screen display.

16. The client electronic device of claim 12 ,
wherein the content item collection associated with the first user account is stored at the client electronic device; and
wherein the performing the content management action on the content item causes the storing, at the client electronic device, the copy of the content item in the content item collection associated with the first user account.

17. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by a client electronic device, cause the client electronic device to perform operations comprising:
detecting a first touch gesture while a first application is open and displays a graphical representation of a content item, the first touch gesture detected at the client electronic device; and
based at least in part on the detecting the first touch gesture, a content management application performing, at the client electronic device, a content management action on the content item;
wherein the performing the content management action on the content item causes:
storing the content item in a content item collection,
sharing the content item with a user account,
uploading the content item to a server, or
any combination thereof.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Dwan Michael
• Kluesing Daniel

Classifications

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0481

  based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance · CPC title

• G06F3/04883 Primary

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F17/30115

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title