Conversion of text relating to media content and media extension apps
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsThomas M. Alsina, Samuel M. Weinig, Chance Graham, Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan de Vries, Timothy P. Horton
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Abstract
A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing executable program instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method comprising:
- displaying, via a first device, a user interface for a messaging application, wherein the user interface includes a messaging transcript with a list of one or more messages communicated between the first device and a second device;
- receiving, by the messaging application executing on the first device, a request to send a message to the second device, wherein the message includes text and the request is from another application;
- retrieving, by the first device, metadata related to the resource locator from a remote device that stores the metadata related to the resource locator, wherein the metadata is not included in the message as received by the first device and the metadata includes an image representing the resource locator;
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- after obtaining the metadata, displaying, by the first device, the image within the list.
A method comprising:
- displaying, via a first device, a user interface for a messaging application, wherein the user interface includes a messaging transcript with a list of one or more messages communicated between the first device and a second device;
- receiving, by the messaging application executing on the first device, a request to send a message to the second device, wherein the message includes text and the request is from another application;
- retrieving, by the first device, metadata related to the resource locator from a remote device that stores the metadata related to the resource locator, wherein the metadata is not included in the message as received by the first device and the metadata includes an image representing the resource locator;
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- after obtaining the metadata, displaying, by the first device, the image within the list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.