US 9,070,169 B2Granted

Undo capability for remotely submitted user-authored content

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsGautam Satalkar, David Andrew Nelson, Jon Nicolas Myette, Gaurang Prajapati, Peiyu Liu

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Abstract

A user can author content, and submit such content to be posted within a social networking context, from an external service such that the user can undo the posting of such content without such content ever having been posted in the social networking context. Additionally, once such user-authored content is posted in the social networking context, the user is provided with a single action that can remove all relevant manifestations of such content. The submission of user-authored content, to a social networking service, from an external service is delayed while, simultaneously, such external service presents the user with an interface indicating that such user-authored content has already been submitted to the social networking service and posted thereon. Should the user select to undo the posting of such content prior to the expiration of the delay, the submission can simply never be performed.

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Dependent claims

A system for managing user-authored content directed to a social networking context, the system comprising:

one or more processing units;
a network interface;
a display device;
and
one or more computer-readable storage media communicationally coupled to the one or more processing units and to the network interface, the one or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processing units, cause the system to perform steps comprising:
receiving an instruction from a user to post the user-authored content to the social networking context, which is maintained by a social networking service that is external to a service from which the computer-executable instructions were received by the system through the network interface;
generating, on the display device, a presentation of the user-authored content such that the presented user-authored content appears to have already been posted to the social networking context;
and
transmitting the user-authored content to the social networking service after the generating the presentation only if both at least one predetermined condition, exclusive of the received instruction, is met and the user has not attempted to undo the posting of the user-authored content subsequent to the receiving the instruction.

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A system for managing user-authored content directed to a social networking context, the system comprising:

one or more processing units;
a network interface;
and
one or more computer-readable storage media communicationally coupled to the one or more processing units and to the network interface, the one or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions, directed to steps comprising:
receiving an instruction from a user to post the user-authored content to the social networking context, which is maintained by a social networking service that is external to the system;
generating a presentation of the user-authored content such that the presented user-authored content appears to have already been posted to the social networking context;
and
transmitting the user-authored content to the social networking service after the generating the presentation only if both at least one predetermined condition, exclusive of the received instruction, is met and the user has not attempted to undo the posting of the user-authored content subsequent to the receiving the instruction;
wherein the one or more processing units utilize the network interface to transmit the computer-executable instructions to a client computing device for execution on the client computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.