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US 2015/0319202 A1Published application
Methods and systems for drag and drop content sharing in a multi-device environment
AssigneeOpenTV, Inc.
InventorsCrx K. Chai, Alex Fishman
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Abstract
Methods and systems for interacting with graphical user interface elements to invoke commands and initiate requests in a multi-device environment are described
Claims20
A method comprising:
- detecting a drag-and-drop event that indicates a displayed first graphical element being positioned over a displayed second graphical element, the first graphical element identifying content to be shared with a recipient user indicated by the second graphical element, the second graphical element being associated with configuration setting as that specify at least one device among multiple devices and designate the at least one device to access shared content, the second graphical element being displayed among other graphical elements that represent other recipient users within a computer based social network;
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- responsive to the drag-and-drop event, generating and communicating a command to cause the specified at least one device to obtain access to the content, the command being generated in accordance with the configuration settings and identifying the content and the associated user with whom the content is to be shared.
A device comprising:
- a touch screen display;
- one or more processors;
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- a memory storing instructions that,when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- via the touch screen display, detecting a drag-and-drop event that indicates a displayed first graphical element being positioned over a displayed second graphical element, the first graphical element identifying content to be shared with a recipient user indicated by the second graphical element, the second graphical element being associated with configuration settings that specify at least one device among multiple devices and designate the at least one device to access shared content, the second graphical element being displayed among other graphical elements that represent other recipient users within a computer-based social network;
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- responsive to the drag-and-drop event, generating and communicating a command to cause the specified at least one device to obtain access to the content, the command being generated in accordance with the configuration settings and identifying the content and the associated user with whom the content is to be shared.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- detecting a drag-and-drop event that indicates a displayed first graphical element being positioned over a displayed second graphical element, the first graphical element identifying content to be shared with a recipient user indicated by the second graphical element, the second graphical element being associated with configuration settings that specify at least one device among multiple devices and designate the at least one device to access shared content, the second graphical element being displayed among other graphical elements that represent other recipient users within a computer-based social network;
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- responsive to the drag-and-drop event, generating and communicating a command to cause the specified at least one device to obtain access to the content, the command being generated in accordance with the configuration settings and identifying the content and the associated user with whom the content is to be shared.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.