User interfaces and associated systems and processes for sharing portions of content items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11706169-B2
Application number	US-202217657311-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2022
Priority date	Jan 29, 2021
Publication date	Jul 18, 2023
Grant date	Jul 18, 2023

Abstract

In some embodiments, a first electronic device shares a portion of a content item corresponding to a respective portion of lyrics for the content item with a second electronic device. In some embodiments, a system facilitates securely sharing a portion of a content item between two devices. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates a server address for accessing a portion of a content item. In some embodiments, a uniform resource locator includes an identification of content, an indication of a first subset of the content, and authentication data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a first electronic device and a second electronic device in communication via a messaging service, wherein:
the first electronic device is configured to:
generate, based on at least an indication of content and an indication of a first portion of the content, a digital signature; and
transmit, via the messaging service, a request for content to the second electronic device, wherein:
the request includes the indication of the content, the indication of the first portion of the content, and the digital signature, and

the second electronic device is configured to:
receive, via the messaging service, the request for the content;
transmit the digital signature included in the request for the content to a content delivery service; and
in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are satisfied, including a criterion that is satisfied when the digital signature is valid, receive, from the content delivery service, the first portion of the content.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising the content delivery service, wherein the content delivery service is configured to verify the digital signature, including:
generating a second digital signature based on at least the indication of the content and the indication of the first portion of the content included in the request for the content;
in accordance with a determination that the second digital signature corresponds to the digital signature included in the request for the content, determining that the digital signature is valid; and
in accordance with a determination that the second digital signature does not correspond to the digital signature included in the request for the content, determining that the digital signature is not valid.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second electronic device is configured to:
in accordance with a determination that the one or more criteria are not satisfied, receive, from the content delivery service, a predetermined preview, other than the first portion, of the content.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second electronic device is configured to:
in response to receiving the first portion of the content:
in accordance with a determination that a first application is installed on the second electronic device, present the first portion of the content via the first application; and
in accordance with a determination that a first application is not installed on the second electronic device, present the first portion of the content via a second application, different from the first application.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second electronic device is configured to transmit, with the digital signature to the content delivery service, at least one of the indication of the content included in the request or the indication of the first portion of the content included in the request.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed by a first electronic device, cause the first electronic device to perform:
generating a server address, the server address including an indication of content, and an indication of a first portion of the content and not a second portion of the content; and
transmitting, via a messaging service, the server address to a second electronic device, wherein:
the server address is configured such that use of the server address causes a content delivery service to respond with the first portion of the content and not the second portion of the content.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the content is a song, and the first portion of the content corresponds to a respective portion of lyrics of the song.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the indication of the first portion of the content includes an indication of a beginning of the first portion of the content and an indication of an end of the first portion of the content.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the server address includes an indication of a language associated with the content.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , the instructions causing the first electronic device to further perform:
after transmitting the server address to the second electronic device, including the server address in a messaging application installed on the first electronic device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein generating the server address includes:
in accordance with a determination that the first portion of the content satisfies one or more criteria, including a criterion that is satisfied based on a number of characters of lyrics associated with the first portion of the content, generating the server address including the indication of the first portion of the content; and
in accordance with a determination that the first portion of the content does not satisfy the one or more criteria, forgoing generating the server address including the indication of the first portion of the content.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the first electronic device generates the server address in response to an input to share the first portion of the content with the second electronic device.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the first electronic device initiates a process to generate the server address from a music application associated with a content delivery service, the music application different from a messaging application associated with the messaging service.

14. A uniform resource locator (URL), comprising:
an identification of content;
an indication of a first subset of the content; and
authentication data generated using the identification of the content and the indication of the first subset of the content.

15. The URL of claim 14 , wherein the content comprises audio content, and the first subset of the content is a transcription of a portion of the audio content.

16. The URL of claim 14 , wherein the authentication data includes a digital signature generated using the identification of the content and the indication of the first subset of the content.

17. The URL of any of claim 14 , further comprising an indication of a language associated with the content.

18. The URL of claim 14 , further comprising an indication of a remote database associated with the content.

19. The URL of claim 14 , wherein the authentication data is generated using at least one of an indication of a language associated with the content or an indication of a remote database associated with the content.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• DEVA Betim
• Peres Coelho Borges Catarina
• Huang Szu-Wen
• Khumri Mufaddal Y
• Zhang Edward

Classifications

• H04L51/046 Primary

  Interoperability with other network applications or services · CPC title

• G06F3/0484

  for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F16/685

  using automatically derived transcript of audio data, e.g. lyrics (speech recognition G10L15/00) · CPC title

• G06F16/955

  using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] · CPC title