US Patent Application 18140776. SYSTEM AND METHODS TO DENOTE UNSHARED CONTENT TO BE SHARED simplified abstract

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SYSTEM AND METHODS TO DENOTE UNSHARED CONTENT TO BE SHARED

Organization Name

Rovi Guides, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Madhusudhan Srinivasan of Bangalore (IN)

Aditya Rautray of Bangalore (IN)

Deviprasad Punja of Bangalore (IN)

SYSTEM AND METHODS TO DENOTE UNSHARED CONTENT TO BE SHARED - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18140776 titled 'SYSTEM AND METHODS TO DENOTE UNSHARED CONTENT TO BE SHARED

Simplified Explanation

- This patent application describes methods and systems for identifying and marking content items that have or have not been shared to social media or content hosting services. - A marking engine is used to access a content item in a content library and determine which content hosts or social media sites it has been transmitted to previously. - The marking engine creates a user interface and generates thumbnails and graphical indicators for each identified content host. - Thumbnail representations of each content item with graphical indicators are displayed to show which content hosts the item has been shared to. - The marking engine can also sort thumbnails based on metadata associated with the content items, such as creation time, location, and share status, to indicate which items are ready to be shared to a content host.


Original Abstract Submitted

Methods and systems are described for identifying and marking content items that have or have not been shared to social media or content hosting services. The methods and systems use a marking engine to access a content item in a content library and identify the content hosts or social media sites to which the content item was previously transmitted. A marking engine may create a user interface, generate a thumbnail of each content item, and generate a graphical indicator for each identified content host. A marking engine may generate for display thumbnail representations of each content item with graphical indicators of each of the identified content hosts. A marking engine may sort thumbnails by metadata associated with the corresponding content items, such as creation time and date, location, share status, and other classifications and filters, to indicate which content items are ready to be shared to a content host.