Collaborative media sharing
View Patent ↗Devices and methods are provided for the collaborative management of digital media. A plurality of users respectively use their mobile devices to provide a corresponding plurality of digital media data to a media server node, which then displays it within a display. Instructions in the form of control data are then received from the mobile devices, which are then used to perform collaborative management of the displayed digital media data. Various collaborative sequencing and editing operations are performed by the users to create a composite digital media file, which is then transferred to one or more of the user's mobile devices.
1. A media node computer, comprising:
processing logic, the processing logic communicatively coupled to a display located in a single geographic location and configured to perform collaborative media data editing by at least a first user and a second user and to render a user interface (UI) window on the display with at least a first user workspace sub-window, a second user workspace sub-window, and a composite workspace sub-window, the sub-windows being rendered contemporaneously on the display, and to:
receive a first set of media data from a first electronic device and a second set of media data from a second electronic device;
render the first set of media data within the first user workspace sub-window and the second set of media data within the second user workspace sub-window;
receive a first set of control data from a first mobile computing device corresponding to a click-and-drag selection and move by the first user of at least part of the first media data within the first user workspace sub-window and movement of the selected first media data into the composite workspace sub-window;
receive a second set of control data from a second mobile computing device corresponding to a click-and-drag selection and move by the second user of at least part of the second media data within the second user workspace sub-window and movement of the selected second media data into the composite workspace sub-window; and
render, within the composite workspace sub-window, the first selected media data that has been moved, and the second selected media data that has been moved.
2. The node computer of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first set of control data from the first mobile device and second set of control data from the second device includes control data to control icons in the UI window.
3. The media node computer of claim 1 ,
wherein the first and second sets of media data are received over a wireless connection.
4. The media node computer of claim 1 , wherein the first set of media is received from the first mobile device and the second set of media is received from the second mobile device.
5. A method for collaboratively managing digital media data by first and second mobile users, comprising:
via a server node comprising processing logic communicatively coupled to a display to present a user interface (UI) window with at least a first user workspace sub-window, a second user workspace sub-window, and a composite workspace sub-window, the sub-windows being rendered contemporaneously on the display:
receiving a first set of media data from a first mobile computing electronic device and a second set of media data from a second mobile computing electronic device;
rendering the first set of media data in the first user workspace sub-window and the second set of media data within the second user workspace sub-window;
receiving a first set of control data from a first mobile device corresponding to a click-and-drag selection and move by the first user of at least part of the first media data within the first user workspace sub-window and movement of the selected first media data into the composite workspace sub-window;
receiving a second set of control data from a second mobile device-corresponding to a click-and-drag selection and move by the second user of at least part of the second media data within the second user workspace sub-window and movement of the second media data into the composite workspace sub-window; and
rendering, within the composite workspace sub-window, the first selected media data that has been moved, and the second selected media data that has been moved.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein at least one of the first set of control data from the first mobile device and the second set of control data from the second mobile device includes control data to control icons in the UI window.
7. An electronic media node device, comprising:
processing logic, the processing logic used by the media server node device to:
perform collaborative media data editing by at least a first user and a second user and to render a user interface (UI) window on a display of a media server node with at least a first user workspace sub-window, a second user workspace sub-window, and a composite workspace sub-window, the sub-windows being rendered contemporaneously on the display;
receive first and second sets of streaming video media data from first and second computing devices, respectively;
render the first and second sets of media data within the first and second user workspace sub-windows, respectively; and
receive first user input data from the first computing device corresponding to a click-and-drag selection and move by the first user of at least part of the first media data within the first user workspace sub-window and movement of the selected first media data into the composite workspace sub-window;
receive second user input data from the second computing device corresponding to a click-and-drag selection and move by the second user of at least part of the second media data within the second user workspace sub-window and movement of the selected second media data into the composite workspace sub-window;
render, using the first and second user input data, the selected at least part of the first and second media data, respectively, to form a third set of media data within the composite workspace sub-window.
8. The first electronic media node device of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the first set of user input data from the first mobile device and second set of user input data from the second mobile device includes user intput data to control icons within the UI window.
9. The media node device of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the first mobile device and second mobile device is physically connected to the media node.
10. The media node device of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the first mobile device and second mobile device is wirelessly connected to the media node.
11. The media node device of claim 7 , wherein:
the first mobile device is connected to a wireless access network;
the wireless access network is connected to a physical network comprising the second mobile device;
the media node is connected to the second mobile device; and
the media server node is connected to the display.