Patent ID: 8301996
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method executed by a computer processor, the method comprising: receiving a first image of a first object from a computing device of a first user, the first image having first annotations thereon relative to a first location of the first object, the first annotations generated by the first user, the first annotations being instructions for performing a first step in a task; receiving a second image of the first object from the computing device of the first user, the second image having second annotations thereon relative to a second location of the first object, the second annotations generated by the first user, the second annotations being instructions for performing a second step in the task; receiving an indication from a second user that the second user desires to complete the task; subsequent to receiving the first image, the second image, and the indication, receiving a first image of a second object captured by a mobile computing device of the second user by way of a network, the second object corresponding to but being different than the first object in the first image; responsive to receipt of the first image of the second object, accessing the first image of the first object; transferring the first annotations from the first image of the first object to the first image of the second object to create a first annotated image of the second object, the first annotations positioned relative to the second object in the first image of the second object at a third location that corresponds to the first location relative to the first object in the first image of the first object; transmitting the first annotated image of the second object to the mobile computing device of the second user by way of the network; receiving an indication from the second user that the first step in the task has been completed but the task is incomplete; receiving a second image of the second object from the mobile computing device by way of the network subsequent to receiving the indication from the user that the first step in the task has been completed but the task is incomplete; transferring the second annotations from the second image of the first object to the second image of the second object to create a second annotated image of the second object, the second annotations positioned relative to the second object in the second image of the second object at a fourth location that corresponds to the second location relative to the first object in the first image; and transmitting the second annotated image of the second object to the mobile computing device by way of the network.