Patent application EP16163984A (EP), filed 2016-04-06
Publication number: EP3229198A1
Title: DIGITAL INFORMATION SHARING PROCESS
Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital information sharing process (1). A requester (41) indicates (101) on its device (40) that he wants to trigger the digital information sharing process (1). His device (40) transmits a corresponding request to a social networking system (10), possibly with digital content. The social networking system (10) starts (102) a counting and requests (103) digital content to a plurality of guest devices (50), receives (104) digital content from at least part of the plurality of guest devices (50), and sends (107) digital output information determined from at least part of the received digital content if at least one of the following conditions is satisfied: the counting reaches (105) a predetermined threshold, and digital content has been received (106) from a predetermined number of guest devices (50), preferably all guest devices (50), of the plurality of guest devices (50).
IPC codes: G06Q  30/    00            A I
G06Q  50/    00            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: Digital information sharing process (1) comprising the steps of:
number: 2
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to claim 1, further comprising, before step 3), a step of receiving digital content from a requester device (40), which is a device that has triggered the digital information sharing process (1), and wherein the digital output information is determined from at least one of:
number: 3
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the counting comprises a timer and the predetermined threshold comprises an end of a predetermined time duration.
number: 4
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the counting comprises a count of actions taken on a requester device (40), which is a device that has triggered the digital information sharing process (1), and the predetermined threshold comprises a predetermined action count value.
number: 5
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to the preceding claim, wherein an action taken on the requester device (40) is at least one of: click action, view action, share action, commenting action, promoting a post action, forward information action or liking action.
number: 6
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any of the preceding claims, further comprising, before step 1), a step of receiving digital information about at least one of: the counting and the predetermined threshold.
number: 7
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any of the preceding claims, further comprising, before step 1), a step of receiving digital information about the guest devices (50).
number: 8
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the digital content is at least one of: a message, an image, a picture, a video, a tag, a sound, a text, location information, an emoticon, a hyperlink to a location on the Internet, sensor information, structured data or a combination thereof.
number: 9
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any of the preceding claims, wherein at step 3), the digital output information is sent to at least one of: all the guest devices (50) of the plurality of guest devices (50), part of the guest devices (50) of the plurality of guest devices (50), the guest devices (50) from which digital content was received at step 2), and a requester device (40), which is a device that has triggered the digital information sharing process (1).
number: 10
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any of the preceding claims, wherein step 3) comprises a step of combining at least part of the digital content received at step 2) to generate a combined digital content, and the digital output information comprises the combined digital content.
number: 11
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any the preceding claims, wherein the predetermined number of guest devices (50) is equal to the total number of guest devices (50) that have been requested (103) a digital content at step 1).
number: 12
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to any the preceding claims, further comprising a step 2b), between step 2) and step 3) of:
number: 13
text: Digital information sharing process (1) according to the preceding claim, wherein step 2b) comprises combining at least part of the received digital content received so far to generate a combined partial digital content, and the partial digital output information comprises the combined partial digital content.
number: 14
text: Social networking system (10) for sharing digital information comprising at least one processor and an associated storage medium containing a program executable by means of the at least one processor and comprising:
number: 15
text: Social networking system (10) according to the preceding claim, comprising at least one of: a server (30) comprising means for digital information treatment and being configured for providing functionality for other devices and at least part of a requester device (40) comprising means for digital information treatment.
number: 16
text: Computer program for sharing digital information comprising:
Office action: search_report, dated 2017-10-11
Prior art cited: ref_id: US8782140B1
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Final disposition: pending (2017-10-11)