WO2012162769A1

WO2012162769A1 - Integrated multimedia communication system for online social networks

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Publication number: WO2012162769A1
Application number: PCT/BR2011/000396
Authority: WO
Inventors: Denis MANDELBAUM; Bernardo SCHUCMAN
Original assignee: My Play Mobile Softwares Ltda
Priority date: 2011-05-30
Filing date: 2011-08-26
Publication date: 2012-12-06
Also published as: BRPI1102089A2

Abstract

Represented by an inventive solution in the information technology sector, in particular relating to electronic media and specifically to social-networking tools, in which in addition to the wide range of actions available with the aforementioned tool (displaying and publishing personal profiles, news feeds; messages; events; friends; chat; photo galleries; and video galleries, profile search tool), the invention adds value by providing the option of holding a video or audio conference, without the user having to migrate to another type of interaction tool, for which purpose a main page (Pg) of the social-networking tool (Rs) includes the following interaction means: video profile window [N1]; conference room [N2]; observation room [N3] and audio function [N4] that enable users to search for and process information from the main social networks, according to the profile defined by the user, without the user having to migrate to another type of interaction tool; for which purpose the main page of the tool has a video profile window; conference room, observation room and audio function. The integration tool also includes the option of holding video or audio conferences.

Description

INVENTION PATENT DESCRIPTIVE REPORT

INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM APPLIED TO THE INTERNET NETWORK.

APPLICATION FIELD

The present title patent and object of description and claim herein is an inventive solution which finds outstanding benefit in the information technology sector, notably for the broad spectrum of communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment systems. offered by the "internet", also known as "social media" systems, ie the social media in which content is produced in a decentralized manner, whose editorial control is laid by the media user himself, whose practical result converges in the production of content. democratically made available to users of the worldwide network known as "www" (word wide web)

DEMAND FOR THE INVENTION In view of the information technology industry, the applicant has identified an explicit need to provide the target audience and consumer of information from social media with a "one-stop tool" that provides for immediate and simultaneous access to content of an informational nature. communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment, thus ensuring great ease and agility in their use, thus eliminating the need for constant migration between different social media, such as, for example, within the same social network media, the user besides By accessing the profile content of different registered users may have made available communication between users in the traditional field of messages (scrapps), the recent use of chat, but in an unprecedented way can provide these users the training of video conferencing and telephone call.

PARADIGM OF THE INVENTION According to what was revealed in the topic of demand of the invention the applicant elected as development paradigm the tools popularized as "social media", notably the media and social networks available on the Internet, which should guide the critical analysis, identification of possibilities. improvement, notably in the iterativity to converge in a new solution, fruit of the improvement of this type of tool, and such analyzes and proposal of the invention will be properly explained in the development of this cartouche.

INVENTION REQUIREMENTS

In line with the demand and paradigm of the invention the applicant has devised an unprecedented "integrated communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment system applied to social networks made available on the internet" provided with the associated novelty of inventive activity, since it is not obvious or obvious. other state-of-the-art solutions for social media, specifically social networking on the internet.

In addition the "invention" is provided with industrial applicability, being economically feasible and thus, considering the accuracy of the patentability requirements, mainly as a patent, as set forth in the dictates of the articles 8 and 13 of Law 9.279 ^0. TECHNICAL BACKGROUNDS

In order to provide veracity, and to consolidate the context explained in the topics of the introductory table, an explanation of the state of the art will be presented dictated by solutions developed and widely used for social media, where after critical analysis, once exposed to professionals. with expertise in the field of information technology, notably in the internet segment, and specifically in the E-commerce division, will be able to identify its limited aspects. thus consolidating the identification of the needs of demands for the unprecedented integrated system of communication via social network.

Social media concept: These are "tools" in the form of "online" systems whose function is to provide "social interaction" by sharing and collaboratively creating information in a variety of formats.

Otherwise, social media makes it possible for anyone to publish "content" and access to the internet, reducing the cost of production and distribution to almost zero when traditional media such as print media (magazines, newspapers, etc.) are paradigmed. ) for example.

More specifically, social media encompasses various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, photos, videos, and audios, where this interaction and the way information is presented depend on the various perspectives of the user who shared the content. of your specific profile.

Anyway, social media depends on the interaction between people, because the discussion and integration between them build shared content, using technology as a driver.

Importance of social media: new social media tools have been emerging and established, undergoing natural evolutionary mutations - video blogs, which were born only as virtual diaries and had a diversified nature over time, even becoming tools of effective business generation, for example.

This means a significant change in the structure of social power, as the ability to generate content and influence people and decisions is no longer the exclusive case of large capitalized groups, but common to anyone.

In addition, reducing the cost of publishing to almost zero enables the production of very specific content for small audiences as well - which previously did not justify the economic equation.

The freedom of interactive communication combined with the ease of use of the tools to do it and an architecture participatory networking forms the revenue base for social media platforms to be classified as one of the most influential forms of media ever created in the interactive web version, much more can be done with much less and this is very powerful .

Social Media Types:

The communication

• blogs: blogger, wordpress

• sites with group reporting capability

• microblogs: twitter, pownce

• social networks: orkut, facebook, linkedin, myspace

• events: upcoming

• telephony; voip, skype,

• video: video conferencing (web cam,)

B. Collaboration

• wikis: wikipedia

• social bookmarking / site aggregators: del.icio.us and stumbleupon

• social news or crowdsourcing: digg, reddit, eucurti, rec6

• opinion sites: epinions

C. Multimedia

• photo sharing: flickr, zooomr, fotolog, picasa

• video sharing: videolog, you-tube, vimeo

• livecasting or live streaming: justin.tv

• music / audio sharing: imme, last.fm, jamendo

D. Entertainment

• virtual worlds: second life

• online games: world of warcraft • game sharing: miniclip.com

Within the broad spectrum of such tools as "social media" the applicant elects for critical analysis social media with associated "communication and entertainment and multimedia" functions specifically the tool known as "social networking" such as the "face book". ", where this is defined as the development paradigm of the present critical analysis that demands the patent now claimed.

From Social Networking Tool

Taking as an example the popular Orkut, Facebook and related, bring in its rich portfolio of tools of interaction among its users, which we can mention:

-profile of the user;

- news feed;

- posts;

- events;

- friends;

- chat;

- Photo gallery; and

- Video gallery.

Critical analysis of the Facebook tool: While this social networking tool satisfactorily meets the desires and needs for agility in user iteration, anchored by a user friendily interface, there are aspects from the point of view of this same ease of interaction that in Some degree of importance restricts closer communication, notably by the fact that such communication is anchored in the exchange of written data, such as chat, where at most it is possible to identify a photo image of the partner user in the exchange of information.

From this point of view, the careful analysis of this tool reveals at least two aspects that restrict the optimal use of this type of social media, namely:

- does not allow simultaneous user conferencing with multiple users

- restrict profile knowledge of a user, facilitating the formation of a fake profile of the user, masking their real visual identity;

In turn, this type of limitation and identified problem may have caused the following aspects:

- For greater user-user interaction, it is necessary to leave the social networking tool, and make new contact in other communication media, notably multimedia such as: chat (MSN), phone call (skype), video conferencing (MSN, skype), etc., so that there is an aspect of disaggregation and difficulty in forming a discussion group for a particular subject of common interest.

- the degree of knowledge of a user's profile, facilitating the formation of a fake user profile, masking their actual visual identity occurs due to the availability of written information, visual information restricted to the appreciation of the user's "photos", and even edited videos of the desired users.

PROPOSAL OF THE INVENTION

The applicant aware of the shortcoming in contemporary social networking tools, the inventor has developed an inventive solution in the form of an unprecedented integrated communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment system applied to social networks made available on the internet, which allows solving all the causes of the problems identified in the fundamentals topic of the technique.

Of the objectives of the invention:

So that the system in the form of a social networking tool claimed in this patent brings in its core the mandatory inventive activity defined in the dictates of the articles of the industrial property law it is possible to list the predicates:

- Simultaneous user conferencing with multiple users

- Expand the degree of knowledge of a user's profile,

- Avoid fake user profiling, revealing the actual visual identity; and

- Take more qualified formation of a discussion group.

Predominant distinctive feature:

To make the benefits listed with the introduction of the unprecedented integrated communication and integration system for social networks feasible, it goes on to tell how:

- an unprecedented field of user - user and user - users interaction; configuring a real-time 'conference room' for a plurality of participants via 'video conferencing, audio / video' technology;

- visual profile of each user in real time, where this technical condition is feasible through "WebCam / Video Streaming" technology, where a user if they have their profile set up for "video profile publishing", [s] visiting user [s] will be able to "watch" what the profile owner user is broadcasting in real time;

- possibility of verbalized communication, using radio technology, VOIP protocol, etc. DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

In addition to the present description of the specification for a better understanding of the features of the present patent, accompanying accompanying drawings are reproductions of a preferred embodiment for the integrated communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment system. applied to social networks available on the internet, where:

Figure .1 is an illustrative view of a page of the social networking tool, highlighting the distinctive field of video and / or radio conference communication, the conference room, the observer room, and the audio control, video objects. claim; notably in a conference start condition; and

Figure .2 is a representation in view Illustrative of a page of the social networking tool, highlighting the differentiated field of video and / or radio conference communication, the conference room, the observers room, and the audio control, objects of claim; notably in a condition of conference room composition and radio activation.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The following detailed description should be read and interpreted with reference to the drawings presented, representing a preferred embodiment for the unprecedented "integrated communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment system applied to social networks made available on the Internet, not intended to limit the scope. of the invention, this is limited only to that set forth in the claim table.

Technological basis: As evidenced by Figure 1, a social networking tool (Rs) is defined, illustrating its main page [Pg], where the user commonly has access to viewing and editing information of his own profile, feed of news; posts; events; friends; chat; Photo gallery; and video gallery, profile search tool.

Distinctive Features:

- Video profile window [N1]: where the main user [U1] can enable the video window in such a way that making use of an integrated WebCam (not shown) on the computer itself is possible for other users, both conference users. [U2] as observant users [U3] will be able to identify your dynamic image in real time;

- Conference Room [N2]: Created by the primary user [U1] who can open the conference room for a select group of conference users [U2], who can be recruited by preliminary invitation from the friends list (not shown). ) of this primary user [U1] or alternatively be captured from the observation room [N3] in which observing users [U3] are identified, and the users in conferences [U2] interact directly with the primary user [U1], while observing users [U3] can only attend conference from conference room [N2];

- Observation room [N3]: The conference occurrences called by the main user [U1] can be public or restricted, where for the first case is provided in the main page [Pg] an audience window that is own observation room, to which can be any user with registered profile and who is browsing the social networking tool (Rs]; and

- Radio function [N4]: defined by virtual microphone and speaker buttons, visible on both the main user's [U1] and conference user [U2] page [U2] such that each can at any time trigger the radio for user-user or user-user communication, and this function is inhibited for page [Pg] of the observer user profile [U3], as it conceptually does not interact with conference room [N2] until invited by the user. primary user [U1].

The choice of preferred embodiment of the invention object of claim in this cartouche, in the form of a main page [Pg] of a social networking tool [Rs] with the introduction of unpublished video window features [N1]; conference room [N2]; observation room [N3] and radio function [N4] described in this detail topic of the invention is provided by way of example only. Changes, modifications and variations may be made to any other embodiment of the integrated communication, collaboration, multimedia and entertainment system by those skilled in the art without, however, departing from the objective disclosed in the application of the present patent, which is defined solely by the appended claims.

It is clear from what has been described and illustrated that the "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AVAILABLE" hereinafter complies with the rules governing the invention patent in the light of the Property Law. Industrial, deserving for what was exposed and as a consequence, its privilege.

Claims

CLAIM

1 ^a ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET", where a social networking tool (Rs), on its main page [Pg], offers the user access to information on view and edit your own profile, news feed; posts; events; friends; chat; Photo gallery; and video gallery, profile search tool, among others common is differentiated when it is characterized by having a video profile window [N1] enabled through WebCam; a conference room [N2] created by the primary user [U1] consisting of conference users [U2]; observation room [N3], such as an audience window to which observing users are members [U3]; radio function [N4], defined by virtual microphone and speaker buttons, visible on both the [P1] page of the main user [U1] and the conference user [U2];

( ^A ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON INTERNET AVAILABLE SOCIAL NETWORKS" according to claim 1, wherein the video profile window [N1] is characterized by enabling the image in time real of the primary user [U1] by conference users [U2] and observing users [U3] _;

( ^A ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON INTERNET AVAILABLE SOCIAL NETWORKS" according to claim 1, where the conference room composition [U2] of the conference room [N2] ] is characterized by the primary user [U1] preliminarily inviting or capturing friends from their friends list (not illustrated), or capturing from the observation room [N3] observing users [U3];

^A ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET" according to claim 3, where interaction 2/2

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primary user [u1] + conference user [U2] and observer user [U3] have a rule characterized by conference users [U2] interacting directly with primary user [U1], and observant users [U3] can only watch conference room conference [N2];

^(A ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON INTERNET AVAILABLE SOCIAL NETWORKS" according to claim 1, where the observant user [U3] is characterized by being from any user profile with registered profile and browsing the social networking tool (Rs];

^A ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AVAILABLE", as claimed in claim 1, where the conference room formation call [N2] is characterized by being made through public or restricted calls by the primary user [U1]; ^A ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON INTERNET AVAILABLE SOCIAL NETWORKS" according to claim 1 and 5, where the observation room rule [N3] is characterized by allowing observant users [U3] only attend conference room conference [U2]; and

^A ) "INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, MULTIMEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM APPLIED ON INTERNET AVAILABLE SOCIAL NETWORKS" according to claim 1, where for the radio function [N4] the rule is characterized by:

- activation of radio for communication main user [U1] + conference user [U2]:

- Activation of radio function [N4] is inhibited for page [Pg] of the observer user profile [U3].