Automatic sharing of digital multimedia
AssigneeDropbox, Inc.
InventorJoshua Kaplan
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Abstract
Devices and methods for automatic sharing of digital multimedia include, in one embodiment, obtaining factor data affecting a decision on whether or not to enter a digital multimedia sharing mode for an event or meeting; entering the digital multimedia sharing based on the factor data; storing digital photograph data produced by a camera module while in the sharing mode and automatically making the digital photograph data available to one or more participants of the event or meeting via a synchronized data container or a shareable link of an online content management system.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining factor data affecting a decision on whether or not to enter a digital multimedia sharing mode for an event or meeting, the event or meeting involving one or more participants;
- entering the digital multimedia sharing mode at a computing device, based at least in part on the factor data;
- identifying digital multimedia data captured by the computing device while the computing device is in the digital multimedia sharing mode;
- automatically making the digital multimedia data available to the one or more participants;
- and
- wherein automatically making the digital multimedia data available to the one or more participants comprises uploading the digital multimedia data to a server-side container of a content management system that is configured for synchronization with a client-side container at a client device of at least one participant of the one or more participants.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining factor data affecting a decision on whether or not to enter a digital multimedia sharing mode for an event or meeting, the event or meeting involving one or more participants;
- entering the digital multimedia sharing mode at a computing device based at least in part on the factor data;
- identifying digital multimedia data captured by the computing device while the computing device is in the digital multimedia sharing mode;
- automatically making the digital multimedia data available to the one or more participants;
- and
- wherein automatically making the digital multimedia data available to the one or more participants comprises automatically requesting a content management system to generate a shareable link to the digital multimedia data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.