Adding images via MMS to a draft document
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorVivian Gledhill
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Abstract
A user may use a client device to create a draft document by interacting with a server. The user provides an image in a message (e.g., a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message) from a different device. The server receives the image and modifies the draft (e.g., by updating a web page being displayed on the client device). This process allows the user to type text for a draft using a client device that includes a keyboard (e.g., a desktop or laptop computer) and to add an image to the draft using a second device that includes a camera (e.g., a mobile phone or tablet computer) without having to transfer the image from the second device to the first device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- sending data from a first device associated with a user, the data being for a draft document;
- sending a request to add an image stored at a second device associated with the user and separate from the first device, the image to be associated with the data;
- and
- presenting, at the first device, the data and the image received from the second device via a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message that includes the image associated with the data.
A system comprising:
- a memory that stores instructions;
- and
- one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising:
- sending data from a first device associated with a user, the data being for a draft document;
- sending a request to add an image stored at a second device associated with the user and separate from the first device, the image to be associated with the data;
- and
- presenting, at the first device, the data and the image received from the second device via a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message that includes the image associated with the data.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- sending data from a first device associated with a user, the data being for a draft document;
- sending a request to add an image stored at a second device associated with the user and separate from the first device, the image to be associated with the data;
- and
- presenting, at the first device, the data and the image received from the second device via a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message that includes the image associated with the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.