Systems and methods for multimedia content sharing

摘要

The invention provides, in one aspect, a multimedia content sharing system that includes (i) a shared content server which stores items of content (such as still, moving images and audio) and (ii) a plurality of nodes, each of which is in communications with the shared content server via cellular telephone and/or other data networks. The shared content server transmits items of content to a first set of the nodes “automatically,” e.g., without requests by users of those nodes for the items. At least one node in that first set displays the content of received items (e.g., on an LCD screen) and accepts user feedback in regard to those items. That feedback—which may be, for example, a command to copy an item into an “album”, to rotate an item on the display, to block another node from displaying the items, and/or to block a sender (or creator) of the item from sending further items of content from presenting—is transmitted back to the shared content server for distribution to other nodes, which alter their own respective displays of the items accordingly.

主权项

1. A multimedia content sharing system, comprising
A. a shared content server storing a plurality of items of content, where the stored items of content are any of still, moving images and audio, B. a plurality of nodes, each in communication coupling with the shared content server via one or more networks, C. the shared content server transmitting, via the one or more networks,
i. a first set of one or more of the plurality of items of content stored on the server to each node in a first set of said nodes without a request by any user of that node for such item, where the first set comprises one or more of the plurality of nodes, and wherein each node in the first set of said nodes stores the first set of one or more of the plurality of items in a local store associated therewith,ii. a second set of one or more of the plurality of items of content stored on the server to each node in a second set of said nodes without a request by any user of that node for such item, where the second set comprises one or more of the plurality of nodes and where the second set of items may overlap the first set of items, where the second set of nodes may overlap the first set of nodes, and wherein each node in the second set of said nodes stores the second set of one or more of the plurality of items in a local store associated therewith, D. at least one said node (“first peer node”) in at least one of the first and second sets of nodes, (i) presenting any of visually and/or aurally the content of at least one item of content received from the shared content server, (ii) accepting user feedback with respect to that item of content, the user feedback reflecting user input regarding the item of content, and (iii) transmitting that user feedback to the shared content server, E. the shared content server transmitting the user feedback to at least one node (“second peer node”) that is in the set of nodes to which the first peer node belongs without retransmission of the article of content with respect to which the user feedback was accepted, which second peer node alters a presentation on that node of that item of content as stored on the local store associated therewith based on that user feedback.