公开(公告)号：US20060242234A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-26

申请号：US11111017

申请日：2005-04-21

申请人： Scott Counts ,  Shelly Farnham ,  Jordan Schwartz

发明人： Scott Counts ,  Shelly Farnham ,  Jordan Schwartz

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04W4/08 ,  G06Q50/01 ,  H04M1/72522 ,  H04W8/186 ,  H04W28/06

摘要： A system and method that facilitates dynamic group formation for social interaction and/or real-time sharing of content with the group is provided. A group formation system includes a user interface component that facilitates a user's entry of information and display of information regarding group formation. For example, the user interface component can be employed, for example, with a mobile communication device such as a mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart phone, a small, web based mobile or a wireless application protocol (WAP) client, and/or a regular web client. The system can further include a group formation component that forms a group based, at least in part, upon information received from a user via the interface component. The group configuration component can further store information regarding groups (e.g., a name/identifier, member(s), event(s) and/or shared context associated with the group) in a group information data store. For example, the group configuration component can form a group based, at least in part, upon information stored in the group information data store (implicit group formation). The group information data store can, optionally, provide archival access to communications and/or shared content (e.g., through a mobile communications device and/or a PC-based web browser).

摘要翻译： 提供了促进动态组形成用于社区交互和/或与组的内容的实时共享的系统和方法。 群组形成系统包括便于用户输入信息并显示关于群组形成的信息的用户界面组件。 例如，用户界面组件可以例如使用诸如移动电话，个人数字助理（PDA），智能电话，小型，基于web的移动或无线应用协议（WAP）等移动通信设备， 客户端和/或常规Web客户端。 该系统还可以包括至少部分地基于经由接口组件从用户接收的信息形成组的组形成组件。 组配置组件可以在组信息数据存储器中进一步存储关于组（例如，名称/标识符，成员，事件和/或与组相关联的事件和/或共享上下文）的信息。 例如，组配置组件可以至少部分地基于存储在组信息数据存储器（隐式组形成）中的信息来形成组。 组信息数据存储可以可选地提供对通信和/或共享内容的归档访问（例如，通过移动通信设备和/或基于PC的Web浏览器）。

公开(公告)号：US20050223329A1

公开(公告)日：2005-10-06

申请号：US10817040

申请日：2004-04-02

申请人： Jordan Schwartz ,  Scott Dart ,  Linda Hong ,  Christopher Evans ,  Jingyang Xu

发明人： Jordan Schwartz ,  Scott Dart ,  Linda Hong ,  Christopher Evans ,  Jingyang Xu

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/04817

摘要： A method, system and medium suitable for rendering substantially instantaneously thumbnail data pre-cached in a volatile memory. The thumbnail data is rendered once an indicator or pointer is hovered over an icon that has associated thumbnail data stored in the volatile memory.

摘要翻译： 一种方法，系统和介质，适于呈现预先缓存在易失性存储器中的基本上即时的缩略图数据。 一旦将指示符或指针悬停在具有存储在易失性存储器中的相关联的缩略图数据的图标上，则呈现缩略图数据。

公开(公告)号：US20080263449A1

公开(公告)日：2008-10-23

申请号：US11788819

申请日：2007-04-20

申请人： Jordan Schwartz ,  David Parlin ,  Ryan Kabir

发明人： Jordan Schwartz ,  David Parlin ,  Ryan Kabir

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06T11/00

摘要： Automated maintenance of media content such as digital photographs and video in a pool is provided by an arrangement where the time interval that each piece of media content remains in the pool is tracked and modified by user-behavioral factors. This “virtual age” of the media content is depicted on a representative image displayed by a graphical user interface through the use of visual metaphors that simulate the physical characteristics of an object such as a printed photograph as it ages. As the virtual age of the content increases, visual metaphors including fading or yellowing, and physical deterioration such as tattering, creasing, and ripping are overlaid as effects onto the displayed image. Older content is displayed using other respective images which have increased fading or yellowing and greater physical deterioration until, in one example, an image appears to crumble to dust, at which point the associated media content is automatically deleted from the pool.

摘要翻译： 通过这样一种安排提供媒体内容（如数字照片和视频在池中）的自动维护，其中每个媒体内容保留在池中的时间间隔由用户行为因素进行跟踪和修改。 媒体内容的这个“虚拟时代”通过使用视觉隐喻在由图形用户界面显示的代表性图像上描绘，所述视觉隐喻模拟对象的物理特征，诸如打印照片在其老化时的物理特性。 随着内容的虚拟时代的增加，视觉隐喻包括衰落或变黄，以及物理劣化如破碎，褶皱和撕裂等作为对显示图像的影响。 使用其他各自的图像显示较旧的内容，其中各种图像具有增加的衰落或泛黄以及更大的物理劣化，直到在一个示例中，图像看起来粉碎成粉尘，此时相关的媒体内容将从池中自动删除。

公开(公告)号：US20070202887A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-30

申请号：US11427957

申请日：2006-06-30

申请人： Scott Counts ,  John Krumm ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Steve Glenner

发明人： Scott Counts ,  John Krumm ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Steve Glenner

IPC分类号： H04Q7/20

CPC分类号： H04W64/00 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S5/0252

摘要： The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for determining locations of mobile devices. In particular, a set of regions is defined based upon the relative strength of signals received from one or more base stations within the region. Each region has associated location information (e.g., latitude and longitude). The location of a mobile device can be determined by analyzing the strength of received signals, identifying base stations and generating an ordered list of base stations based upon signal strength. The ordered list can be compared to the set of regions to determine the region in which the mobile device is located. The location information for the retrieved region can be used to estimate the location of the mobile device.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及用于确定移动设备的位置的系统和方法。 特别地，基于从区域内的一个或多个基站接收的信号的相对强度来定义一组区域。 每个区域具有相关联的位置信息（例如纬度和经度）。 移动设备的位置可以通过基于信号强度分析接收信号的强度，识别基站和生成基站的有序列表来确定。 有序列表可以与区域集进行比较，以确定移动设备所在的区域。 用于检索的区域的位置信息可以用于估计移动设备的位置。

公开(公告)号：US20070198632A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-23

申请号：US11346158

申请日：2006-02-03

申请人： Benjamin Peart ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Tomasz Kasperkiewicz

发明人： Benjamin Peart ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Tomasz Kasperkiewicz

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L12/2812

摘要： A method and system to transmit multimedia data from a connected capture device is provided. The system includes a capture device wirelessly connected to a secure storage device, which authenticates and communicates with a second communication device. The connected capture device captures multimedia data and metadata and stores the multimedia data in an unprocessed format. The multimedia data and metadata are stored separately and are automatically transmitted to the secure storage device. The secure storage device is polled by the second communication device to retrieve the multimedia data and metadata matching criteria selected by a user of the second communication device. The second communication device receives the multimedia data and metadata and encodes the multimedia data and metadata based on a predefined format. Moreover, the second communication device infers additional metadata from the received multimedia data and metadata and encodes the additional metadata in the predefined format.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种从连接的捕获设备传输多媒体数据的方法和系统。 该系统包括无线连接到安全存储设备的捕获设备，该安全存储设备认证并与第二通信设备进行通信。 连接的捕获设备捕获多媒体数据和元数据，并以未处理的格式存储多媒体数据。 多媒体数据和元数据被单独存储，并被自动发送到安全存储设备。 所述安全存储设备被所述第二通信设备轮询以检索由所述第二通信设备的用户选择的所述多媒体数据和元数据匹配标准。 第二通信设备接收多媒体数据和元数据，并且基于预定格式对多媒体数据和元数据进行编码。 此外，第二通信设备推断来自所接收的多媒体数据和元数据的附加元数据，并以预定格式对附加元数据进行编码。

公开(公告)号：US20060224964A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-05

申请号：US11093921

申请日：2005-03-30

申请人： Jordan Schwartz ,  Christopher Evans

发明人： Jordan Schwartz ,  Christopher Evans

IPC分类号： G06F9/00

CPC分类号： G06F16/48 ,  G06F16/4393

摘要： A method and apparatus for displaying media describe automatically processing metadata of each of a plurality of shared media objects to determine a display characteristic, and automatically displaying each of the plurality of shared media objects according to its display characteristic. A system for displaying media describes a media library to store a plurality of shared media objects and metadata of each of the plurality of shared media objects, a processor to automatically determine a display characteristic based on the metadata of each of the plurality of shared media objects, and a passive media display apparatus to automatically display each of the plurality of shared media objects according to its display characteristic. The display characteristic may be order, duration, frequency, transition, and effect.

摘要翻译： 用于显示媒体的方法和装置描述自动处理多个共享媒体对象中的每一个的元数据以确定显示特性，并且根据其显示特性自动显示多个共享媒体对象中的每一个。 用于显示媒体的系统描述了媒体库以存储多个共享媒体对象和多个共享媒体对象中的每一个的元数据，处理器，用于基于多个共享媒体对象中的每一个的元数据来自动确定显示特性 以及根据其显示特性自动显示多个共享媒体对象中的每一个的无源媒体显示装置。 显示特性可以是顺序，持续时间，频率，转换和效果。

公开(公告)号：US20050091596A1

公开(公告)日：2005-04-28

申请号：US10691441

申请日：2003-10-23

申请人： Colin Anthony ,  Stephane St-Michel ,  Zeke Odins-Lucas ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Richard Banks ,  Marcus Harvey ,  Charles Cummins ,  Charles Stabb ,  Mark Ligameri

发明人： Colin Anthony ,  Stephane St-Michel ,  Zeke Odins-Lucas ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Richard Banks ,  Marcus Harvey ,  Charles Cummins ,  Charles Stabb ,  Mark Ligameri

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F15/00 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06K9/34 ,  G06T20060101 ,  G06T5/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30126 ,  G06F3/04815 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F17/30274 ,  G06F17/30994 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/34

摘要： A three-dimensional (3D) view of a data collection based on an attribute is disclosed. A timeline is provided for displaying files and folders. The timeline may include a focal group that displays detailed information about its contents to the user. Remaining items on the timeline are displayed in less detail and may be positioned to appear further away from the user. A histogram may be provided as part of the view to allow the user to more easily navigate the timeline to find a desired file or folder.

公开(公告)号：US20070174326A1

公开(公告)日：2007-07-26

申请号：US11338225

申请日：2006-01-24

申请人： Jordan Schwartz ,  Tomasz Kasperkiewicz

发明人： Jordan Schwartz ,  Tomasz Kasperkiewicz

IPC分类号： G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06F16/433 ,  G06F16/48

摘要： A system, a method and computer-readable media for associating textual metadata with digital media. An item of digital media is identified, and an audio input describing the media is received. The audio input is converted into text. This text is stored as metadata associated with the identified item of digital media.

摘要翻译： 用于将文本元数据与数字媒体相关联的系统，方法和计算机可读介质。 识别数字媒体的项目，并且接收描述媒体的音频输入。 音频输入转换为文本。 该文本被存储为与所识别的数字媒体项目相关联的元数据。

公开(公告)号：US20070032244A1

公开(公告)日：2007-02-08

申请号：US11199025

申请日：2005-08-08

申请人： Scott Counts ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Shelly Farnham

发明人： Scott Counts ,  Jordan Schwartz ,  Shelly Farnham

IPC分类号： H04Q7/20

CPC分类号： H04W8/14 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W4/12

摘要： An annotation is manually and/or automatically correlated with a location and selectively distributed to participants of an associated user network. Thus, network participants possessing a common bond can obtain “trusted” information regarding specific locations. This allows a network participant to locate resources such as friends, restaurants, hotels, and/or entertainment sites, etc. based on the annotations provided by other network participants for those locations. Network users can annotate locations with temporal information, text, audio/video, photos, and/or graphics, etc. The annotations can be provided to the network via mobile devices and/or via non-mobile devices. Annotation information can be entered before a user visits a location, while a user is visiting a particular location, and/or after a user has visited a location. Location coordinates can be automatically provided and/or manually entered. Annotations are correlated with locations and made selectively available to network participants. Annotation retrieval can occur automatically and/or manually by participants.

摘要翻译： 手动和/或自动地将注释与位置相关联并且选择性地分配给相关用户网络的参与者。 因此，拥有共同债券的网络参与者可以获得关于特定地点的“受信任”信息。 这允许网络参与者基于由这些位置的其他网络参与者提供的注释来定位诸如朋友，餐馆，酒店和/或娱乐场所等资源。 网络用户可以使用时间信息，文本，音频/视频，照片和/或图形等来注释位置。可以经由移动设备和/或经由非移动设备将注释提供给网络。 在用户访问某个位置之前，用户访问特定位置，和/或在用户访问某个位置之后，可以输入注释信息。 位置坐标可以自动提供和/或手动输入。 注释与位置相关联，并可供网络参与者选择使用。 注释检索可以由参与者自动和/或手动进行。

公开(公告)号：US20060240856A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-26

申请号：US11203875

申请日：2005-08-15

申请人： Scott Counts ,  Shelly Farnham ,  Jordan Schwartz

发明人： Scott Counts ,  Shelly Farnham ,  Jordan Schwartz

IPC分类号： H04B7/00

CPC分类号： H04W4/08 ,  H04W8/186 ,  H04W28/06

摘要： A unique system and method that facilitates group-based mobile communication around external feed content is provided. The system and method involve adding external feed content to content generated within a group. Both types of content can be viewed on the mobile devices of the group. Updates to the feed content can be obtained and communicated to the group. When multiple feeds are subscribed to by a group, one or more group members can display such feed content in a selective manner. For example, splinter groups can be formed off of the original group for members who wish to receive a subset of feeds (feed content) to assist them in focusing on a topic of interest. Group members can also employ display filters to restrict feed content displayed on their mobile devices. Users can also search for available feeds and form new groups around such content or join an existing group.