Cloud-connected, interactive application shared through a social network

摘要

The current patent application is directed to a class of highly functional, cloud-connected, interactive applications that are well suited for distribution and execution in social-networking contexts. When executed within the contexts of browser applications running on processor-controlled electronic devices, the class of application programs to which the current patent application is directed provides for importing images and other information from a social-networking service, developing digitally encoded and electronically stored content based on the imported images and other information, and distributing the digitally encoded and electronically stored content within a social-networking environment.

主权项

1. An interactive computer system comprising:
one or more processors; one or more electronic memories; a display device; an interactive application that is stored in the one or more electronic memories and that executes within a web-browser context on the one or more processors to control operation of the interactive computer system, the interactive application accessing social-networking services, accessing user-interface tools and routines through a runtime interface provided by a web-browser plug-in, and accessing a cloud-computing data-storage interface to store and retrieve data to and from a cloud-computing facility; wherein the interactive application displays a drawing user interface on the display device through which a human user draws portraits to produce digitally encoded content; and wherein the digitally-encoded content is stored in one or more physical data-storage devices of the social-networking services within the cloud-computing facility.