Automatic sharing of event content by linking devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9130763-B2
Application number	US-201113163758-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2011
Priority date	Jun 20, 2011
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments enable content sharing using event notifications that include a global identifier and a private identifier. The event notifications are sent to potential participants to an event. Potential participants that accept the event notification or otherwise request to join the event use the private identifier to submit content to a content sharing service. Based at least on the private identifiers associated with event participants, the content from event participants is selectively shared among the other event participants.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a memory area associated with a mobile computing device of a user, said memory area storing user data; and
a processor programmed to:
communicate with one or more devices to identify potential participants to an event based on the user data stored in the memory area and to identify an event organizer associated with the event;
send event invitations to the identified potential participants of the event, each of said event invitation…

Assignees

• Nukala Chandrasekhar
• Callaghan David M
• Bawel Paul Frederick
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Nukala Chandrasekhar
• Callaghan David M
• Bawel Paul Frederick

Classifications

• G06Q10/109 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L12/18

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/1097

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/1822

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/1818 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic