Doodle-in-chat-context

US9003306B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Qwest Communications International Inc. · US

Inventors

• Afshin Frederick Mehin · San Francisco, US
• Valentina Venza · Venezia, IT
• Suzanne Gibbs Howard · San Francisco, US
• Astrid van der Flier · San Francisco, US
• Elger Oberwelz · San Francisco, US
• Nicholas Zambetti · San Francisco, US
• Jesse Tane · San Francisco, US
• Katrin B. Gosling · Woodside, US
• Coe Leta Rayne Stafford · Millbrae, US
• Martin Nicholas John Heaton · San Francisco, US
• Matthew Robert Adams · Mountain View, US
• Peter Riering-Czekalla · Oakland, US
• Andrew Switky · Palo Alto, US
• Michael Gibson · Evergreen, US
• Richard Cerami · Denver, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 7, 2015
• Expiry date: May 1, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L51/04
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Solutions for providing integrated media services, e.g., in the context of communications services offered through a user supersystem configured as an interactive graphical communications hub. For example, interactions with a messaging interface may provide access to media creation functionality, including doodle functionality, in the context of the messaging and/or in the context of other media. In one implementation, the communications interface allows a user to doodle in the context of an image file (e.g., a photo) while in the context of a chat application.