Patent ID: 9106960
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a device, an indication that a user of the device wishes to share media content with another user; identifying a size associated with the media content; identifying an acceptable media content size for successful transmission over a communication network; comparing the size associated with the media content with the acceptable media content size to determine whether the size associated with the media content exceeds the acceptable media content size; and upon determining that the size associated with the media content exceeds the acceptable media content size, enabling the user of the device to reduce the size of the media content to the acceptable media content size; and enabling the user of the device to graphically determine when the media content is reduced to the acceptable media content size, wherein enabling the user of the device to graphically determine when the media content is reduced to the acceptable media content size includes presenting a user interface to the user of the device, the user interface containing a video player and a video editor for editing the media content, and wherein the video editor includes a first wire frame enabling the user to mark a starting portion of an edited media content and a second wire frame enabling the user to mark an ending portion of the edited media content; the method further comprising at least one of: (i) preventing selection of media content that is larger than the acceptable media content size by limiting a gap between the first wire frame and the second wire frame to not exceed the acceptable media content size; and (ii) changing a color of the first wire frame and/or the second wire frame when a gap between the first and second wire frame exceeds the acceptable media content size, thereby informing the user that the edited media content is larger than the acceptable media content size.