Apparatus and method for unifying multiple user accounts on social-media applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016249190-A1
Application number	US-201514627994-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 20, 2015
Priority date	Feb 20, 2015
Publication date	Aug 25, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses for unifying a plurality of user accounts on different social media applications are disclosed. A processor of a mobile endpoint device detects a collection trigger, connects the mobile endpoint device to a plurality of different social media applications, collects a content from one of the plurality of different social media applications of a user based upon the collection trigger, connects the mobile endpoint device to a server that is located remotely from the mobile endpoint device, and sends the content to the server, wherein the server is for providing the content to a connection of the user in at least one of the different social media applications.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A tangible computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of a mobile endpoint device, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
detecting a collection trigger; connecting the mobile endpoint device to a plurality of different social media applications; collecting a content from one of the plurality of different social media applications of a user based upon the collection trigger; connecting the mobile endpoint device to a server that is located remotely from the mobile endpoint device; and sending the content to the server, wherein the server is for providing the content to a connection of the user in at least one of the different social media applications.

2 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the collection trigger comprises a characteristic.

3 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the collecting the content comprises:
analyzing the content to match a characteristic of the content with the characteristic of the collection trigger.

4 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein the characteristic of the content is tagged via the mobile endpoint device when the content is uploaded to one of the plurality of different social media applications.

5 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the characteristic comprises an emotional status.

6 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the characteristic comprises a type of physical event.

7 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the characteristic comprises a location.

8 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the server is for providing the content as an event book that is organized in accordance with a user preference.

9 . The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the content is provided as a link to the content located at the server that is posted to the each one of the different social media applications, wherein the link is accessible by a group of connections defined by the user via a password, wherein the group of connections comprises a different connection from the each one of the plurality of different social media applications.

10 . A method, comprising:
detecting, by a processor of a mobile endpoint device, a collection trigger; connecting, by the processor, the mobile endpoint device to a plurality of different social media applications; collecting, by the processor, a content from one of the plurality of different social media applications of a user based upon the collection trigger; connecting, by the processor, the mobile endpoint device to a server that is located remotely from the mobile endpoint device; and sending, by the processor, the content to the server, wherein the server is for providing the content to a connection of the user in at least one of the different social media applications.

11 . A method comprising:
connecting, by a processor, to a mobile endpoint device in response to a social media content transfer request; receiving, by the processor, a content from the mobile endpoint device that was collected by the mobile endpoint device in response to a collection trigger from a plurality of different social media applications of a user based upon the collection trigger; and providing, by the processor, the content to a connection of the user in at least one of the plurality of different social media applications.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the content is provided as an event book that is organized in accordance with a user preference.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the user preference comprises a chronological order.

14 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
joining, by the processor, each one of the plurality of different social media applications of the user as a new connection.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the providing comprises:
connecting, by the processor, as the new connection to the each one of the plurality of different social media applications of the user; and posting, by the processor, the content to at least one of the plurality of different social media applications of the user.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the content is posted as a link.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the link is accessible by a group of connections defined by the user via a password.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the group of connections comprises a different connection from the each one of the plurality of different social media applications.

19 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the providing comprises:
identifying, by the processor, a contact information associated with the connection; and sending, by the processor, the content to the connection via the contact information.

20 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the providing comprises:
sending, by the processor, the content to an application on the mobile endpoint device, wherein the connection of the user in the at least one of the plurality of different social media applications accesses the content via the application on the mobile endpoint device.

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Shaw Venson
• He Jin

Classifications

• H04W4/21 Primary

  for social networking applications · CPC title

• H04W4/206 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L67/535

  Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34) · CPC title