Method for sharing multimedia content between two users

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9641575-B2
Application number	US-201214368205-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2012
Priority date	Dec 23, 2011
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

A method for sharing multimedia content between at least a first user and a second user using first and second telecommunications terminals, respectively, the content being associated with the second user and being stored in a database hosted by a service platform accessible via a telecommunications network. The method includes: a network-based content-sharing server validating a request to share multimedia content transmitted by the first terminal by authenticating an identifier of the second terminal, which was obtained from a response to the request received from the second terminal; in the content-sharing server, if the sharing request is validated, activating a sharing session and opening a sharing memory space for enabling the sharing of content data between the first and second terminal, and transmitting session activation information to the first terminal; and displaying, in each of the first and second terminals, a sharing window for displaying the data of the sharing space during the sharing session.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for sharing multimedia content between at least a first user and a second user using a first and a second telecommunications terminal respectively, the multimedia content being associated with the second user and being stored in a database hosted by a service platform accessible via a telecommunications network, wherein the method comprises the following acts:
(A)—a content sharing server on said network validating a multimedia content sharing request transmitted by the first terminal, by authenticating an identifier of said second terminal obtained from a response to said request, received from the second terminal;
(B)—in the content sharing server, if the sharing request is validated, activating a sharing session and opening a sharing memory space intended to enable the sharing of content data between the first and the second terminals, and transmitting session activation information to the first terminal;
(C)—displaying in each of the first and second terminals a sharing window intended to display content data in the sharing space during this sharing session.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
(D)—the second user determining at least one multimedia content item to share, and the second terminal transmitting to the sharing server at least one command intended to enable the determined multimedia content to be displayed in the first terminal via said sharing window.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , in which the act (A) includes:
(a1)—in the first telecommunications terminal, generation of a request to share said content, said request including identification information for said second user, and sending of the sharing request to the sharing server;
(a2)—in the sharing server, determination of the second telecommunications terminal from said identification information for the second user, which information is extracted from the received sharing request, and then transmission to the second terminal of a sharing authorization request concerning the first terminal in relation to said multimedia content;
(a3)—in the second terminal, sending a response to said sharing authorization request to the sharing server of said platform.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , in which the act (a3) comprises notifying the sharing authorization request in the second terminal; and following an action by the second user carried out by a man-machine interface on the second terminal, sending a response to the sharing authorization request to the sharing server.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , comprising a preliminary operation of downloading and displaying in the first terminal a webpage for accessing the sharing server of said platform, and in which said sharing server access webpage displayed on a screen of the first terminal represents a two-dimensional code generated automatically by the sharing server when said webpage is downloaded; and in which the act (A) is preceded by the following acts:
transmission of information representing a sharing request from the first terminal to the second terminal, including transmitting said two-dimensional code to a software application installed in the second terminal;
in the second terminal, sending a response to said sharing request to the sharing server.

6. The method as claimed in claim 2 , comprising displaying in the second terminal a user interface presenting to the user of the second terminal information relating to the sharing requests and to the states of the active sharing sessions with the service platform for a predetermined group of telecommunications terminals, said user interface offering functions for controlling a sharing session in progress, relating in particular to the duration of the session or to stopping the session.

7. The method as claimed in claim 2 , in which at the act (D), said command intended to enable the display of determined multimedia content is a command using an XML language and transmitted according to an HTTP protocol, wherein processing of said command by the content sharing server triggers creation of a URL link in the sharing space, enabling access to the multimedia content from the first terminal.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , in which the second terminal is a cellular telephony terminal and said identifier of the second terminal is a cellular telephony network subscriber identifier.

9. A telecommunications terminal comprising a processor and a software module including program instructions, the execution of which by the processor causing the telecommunications terminal to:
receive information representing a multimedia content sharing request transmitted by a first telecommunications terminal, said multimedia content being stored in a database hosted by a service platform on a telecommunications network;
generate and send a response to said content sharing request to a content sharing server of said platform in order to enable validation of the sharing request by authenticating an identifier of said telecommunications terminal;
control a sharing session including means for determining at least one multimedia content item to share, and transmit to the sharing server at least one command configured to enable display of the determined multimedia content in the first terminal.

10. The terminal as claimed in claim 9 , including a screen, which provides a graphical interface suitable for displaying information relating to the multimedia content sharing requests and to activation states of content sharing sessions for a predetermined group of telecommunications terminals.

11. The terminal as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the software module further includes program instructions, the execution of which by the processor causing the terminal to receive and read a two-dimensional code transmitted by the first terminal, said code being representative of a multimedia content sharing request by the first terminal, said response to said content sharing request sent to the content sharing server including the two-dimensional code.

12. A multimedia content sharing server comprising a processor and a software module including program instructions, the execution of which by the processor causing said server to:
receive, from a second telecommunications terminal, a response to a multimedia content sharing request transmitted by a first telecommunications terminal;
verify an identifier of the second terminal following the reception of said response to a content sharing request; and
activate a content sharing session between the first and the second terminal depending on the result of the verification of the identifier of the second terminal.

13. The server as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the software module further includes program instructions, the execution of which by the processor causes the server to:
receive a content sharing request from the first terminal, said request including identification information for a second user;
determine the second telecommunications terminal from said identification information for a second user, which information is extracted from the received content sharing request; and,
transmit to the second terminal a sharing authorization request concerning the first terminal in relation to said multimedia content.

14. The server as claimed in claim 12 , in which said sharing session activation includes creating a sharing memory space intended to enable the temporary sharing of content data between the first and second terminals.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a software module stored thereon and including program instructions, the e

Assignees

• Orange

Inventors

• Le Huerou Emmanuel
• Godest Jean-Pierre

Classifications

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L67/10

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

• H04L67/14

  Session management (for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066) · CPC title

• H04L65/1069 Primary

  Session establishment or de-establishment · CPC title