Content sharing device management

摘要

Computer-readable storage medium, apparatus and method associated with sharing content between users of a computing environment are disclosed herein. In embodiments, one or more computer-readable storage media may contain instructions which when executed by a computing device may facilitate a first user of the computing environment in selecting at least one of a plurality of devices associated with a second user of the computing environment on which to share content with the second user. In some embodiments this may be accomplished through the use of a content sharing device management service of the computing environment. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

主权项

1. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions are configured to cause a computing device, in response to execution of the instructions by the computing device, to facilitate a first user in selecting at least one of a plurality of devices associated with a second user on which to share content with the second user, using a content sharing device management service, wherein the computing device is a client computing device associated with the first user, and in response to execution of the instructions by the client computing device the instructions are configured to cause the client computing device to:
receive, from the content sharing device management service, a list of devices associated with the second user; display the list of devices to the first user; accept an input, from the first user, indicating a selection of one or more of the listed devices on which to share the content; and provide the content sharing device management service with the selection, and in the providing the content sharing device management service, the client computing device is configured to,
package at least the content to be shared and identification of the selected one or more listed devices into a content sharing package, andtransmit the content sharing package to an intermediate server to be transmitted to the selected one or more listed devices to share the content with the second user.