Using text summaries of images to conduct bandwidth sensitive status updates

摘要

Systems and methods of conducting status updates may incorporating a text summary of an image into a status update message, and determining whether to incorporate the image into the status update message based on a network condition associated with a network. In addition, the status update message can be sent via the network wherein, in one example, the status message is sent only to remote parties having a status that satisfies a relevance condition with respect to the content of the text summary.

主权项

1. A device comprising:
an interface to a network; an image capture module to generate an image; a processor; a computer readable storage medium; and computer usable code stored on the computer readable storage medium, where, when executed by the processor, the computer usable code causes the device to,
incorporate a text summary of the image into a status update message, wherein the text summary is to be automatically generated to provide content that includes a textual explanation of the image in the status update message,determine whether to incorporate the image into the status update message based on a network condition associated with the network,send the status update message via the interface to the network, andtrack whether the text summary has been sent with the image in the status update message or the text summary has been sent without the image in the status update message.