Context-driven data sharing
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAlice Jane Bernheim Brush, Junius A. Gunaratne
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Abstract
This patent application pertains to context-driven data sharing, and specifically to data sharing relating to a telephone call. One example can establish a telephone call between first and second computing devices. This example can also utilize the telephone call as at least part of a basis for temporarily adjusting a data sharing permission level on at least one of the first and second computing devices during the telephone call.
Claims21
A hardware computer-readable memory device or hardware storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to perform acts comprising:
- establishing a telephone call between a first computing device associated with a first user and a second computing device associated with a second user;
- utilizing the telephone call as at least part of a basis for temporarily adjusting a data sharing permission level on the first computing device during the telephone call;
- and
- allowing the first user to share a file stored on the first computing device with the second user, the sharing comprising:
- using short range communication with another computing device, providing the another computing device with access to the file stored on the first computing device, and sending the file from the first computing device to the another computing device, and
- sending, from the first computing device to the second computing device, a message with information identifying how the file sent from the first computing device to the another computing device can be obtained from the another computing device.
A computing device comprising:
- at least one volatile or non-volatile storage device storing computer-readable instructions configured to:
- monitor for activity on a mobile device that is proximate to the computing device, the mobile device being associated with a first user;
- and
- in an instance where activity indicating that the mobile device is in use is detected, share a file stored on the mobile device with a second user, wherein, to share the file, the computer-readable instructions are further configured to:
- display a graphical user interface on the computing device,
- receive a user selection of the file stored on the mobile device, the user selection being received via the graphical user interface on the computing device,
- obtain the file from the mobile device using short range communication with the mobile computing device, and
- send the file to the second user;
- and
- at least one hardware processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions.
A mobile device comprising:
- at least one volatile or non-volatile storage device storing computer-readable instructions configured to:
- establish a telephone call with a second mobile device, wherein the telephone call is between a first user of the mobile device and a second user of the second mobile device,
- utilize the telephone call as at least part of a basis for allowing another computing device to access a file stored on the mobile device during the telephone call, and
- share the file stored on the mobile device with the second user of the second mobile device, wherein, to share the file, the computer-readable instructions are further configured to:
- send the file from the mobile device to the another computing device using short range communication with the another computing device, and
- send, from the mobile device to the second mobile device, a message with information identifying how the second user can obtain the file from the another computing device;
- and
- at least one hardware processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.