Method and apparatus pertaining to history-based content-sharing recommendations

US11074618B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BlackBerry Limited · CA

Inventors

• Cody Bryant · Waterloo, CA
• Geordon Thomas Ferguson · Mississauga, CA
• Christofer Bengt Thure LEYON · Malmö, SE
• Arun Kumar · Farmington Hills, US
• Orlin Vesselinov Stoev · Mississauga, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2013
• Grant date: Jul 27, 2021
• Expiry date: Nov 26, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0281
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, an apparatus accesses a memory to obtain information regarding sharing history (as pertains, for example, to a particular user and/or device) and uses that sharing history to display at least one recommended sharing action (from amongst a plurality of available candidate sharing actions) as regards to a particular content item (such as, for example, a particular digital photograph, a video, a presentation, and so forth). This sharing history can comprise previously-selected sharing actions as correlated to content item types including shared-content recipients, corresponding temporal data, shared-content size, corresponding location data, and so forth. By one approach the apparatus itself serves to automatically track user-based content-sharing selections over time, which information is stored as the aforementioned sharing history. By one approach the user is presented with an opportunity to assert a non-specific share command that triggers the aforementioned display of one or more recommended sharing actions.