Automated content submission to a share site
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsROBERT MICHAEL DOLIN, DOUGLAS RAY PEARCE
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for remotely submitting content to a website without navigating to the website are provided. The website is a content-sharing website that accepts public content submissions and makes the content available to multiple users. Initially, a client application may download remote-content-submission instructions from the website. Subsequently, the client application may follow the instructions to format a remote content submission and communicate it to the website.
Claims20
One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing the method of remotely submitting content to a content-sharing website, the method comprising:
- navigating to the content-sharing website, wherein the content-sharing website allows a user to submit content that may then be displayed to other users through the content-sharing website;
- determining, at a client device, that the content-sharing website has a remote content-reception functionality that allows the content-sharing website to remotely receive a content submission from an application operating on the client device;
- displaying, through a user interface displayed on a display device communicatively coupled to the client device, a graphic indication that the content-sharing website is capable of remotely receiving the content submission from a remote-content-submission application on the client device that automatically submits content to the content-sharing website upon receiving a request from the user of the client device to generate the content submission;
- receiving, at the client device, a request from the user of the client device to add the content-sharing website to the remote-content-submission application;
- retrieving, from a server hosting the content-sharing website, instructions for remotely submitting content to the content-sharing website;
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- updating, at the client device, the remote-content-submission application based on the instructions, thereby enabling the remote-content-submission application to remotely submit content to the content-sharing website.
A method of remotely submitting content to a content-sharing website through a client application, the method comprising:
- receiving, through the client application operating on a computing device, a selection of content;
- receiving, through the client application, a selection of one or more content-sharing websites to send the content, wherein content-sharing websites display content from other sources that is submitted by users;
- generating, for each of the one or more content-sharing websites, a content submission that conforms to instructions for remote submission to said each of the one or more content-sharing websites;
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- communicating to said each of the one or more content-sharing websites the content submission that conforms to the instructions for remote submission of each of the one or more content-sharing websites.
One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of instructing a client device to automatically submit content to a content-sharing website, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a server associated with a website, a request for the website, wherein the request is communicated from a client application operating on the client device, and wherein the website is a content-sharing website;
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- communicating, from the server to the client device, the website, wherein code of the content-sharing website includes an attribute that identifies the website as within a content-sharing-website category of websites and a location of an instruction for how a content submission should be communicated to the website, wherein the instruction may be accessed by the client device upon receiving an indication that a user of the client device wishes to add the website to a remote-content-submission capability of the client application, and wherein the remote-content-submission capability automatically generates the content submission.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.