Orange

Violaine Mercier

Emmanuel Le Huerou

Cedric Floury

Francois Toutain

Eric Beaufils

Cédric Floury

François Toutain

A method enables a plurality of users having communication terminals to communicate via a virtual communication space provided by a communication server on a communication network. The method includes configuring a server application so as to create a virtual communication space for a determined group of users. The virtual space provides a plurality of distinct communication modes referred to as 'activities', each activity relating to at least one associated multimedia content, referred to as 'activity content' that is shared by the users of the group. Each activity is performed by determined actions that can be triggered by any of the users of the group. The actions includes at least creating, modifying, or deleting a given activity content. Action requests relating to an activity under consideration and coming from the terminals of the users of the group are processed in a sequential manner in the order of their arrival.

Method for communication among a plurality of users provided with communication terminals, via a virtual communication space

A method for sharing a digital image between a first user terminal and at least one second user terminal over a communications network. The method includes: displaying on the second terminal a 'degraded image', the degraded image being obtained from a 'first image' by digital processing of the first image, the digital processing visually concealing content of the first image; and following detection of an interaction of a user with the screen of the second terminal: defining a zone of interaction of the degraded image depending on the location of the interaction on the screen; obtaining a portion of the first image corresponding to the determined zone of the degraded image; and displaying on the screen of the second terminal the portion of the first image in the place of the corresponding area of the degraded image, throughout the duration of the interaction of the user with the screen.

Method for sharing a digital image between a first user terminal and at least one second user terminal over a communications network

A method is described for processing a multimedia object sent by a sender device and received by a recipient device, the method implemented by the recipient device. The method includes obtaining at least one visual or audio representation of a neighborhood of the recipient device acquired during an opening of the multimedia object on the recipient device; extracting the representation of at least one item of information about users who may have had access to a content of the multimedia object during its opening on the recipient device; and dispatching said at least one item of information to the sender device.

Method and device for processing a multimedia object

One embodiment disclosed herein relates to a method for exchanging multimedia messages between a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal that are connected to a communication network, the method comprising the implementation, by a processor of the first terminal, of a process comprising receiving, from the network, a first multimedia message transmitted by the second terminal, the first multimedia message including at least one media item, restoring and modifying the media item in a user interface depending on the actions of a user, and sending a second multimedia message including the modified media to the second terminal.

Method for exchanging multimedia messages

The invention relates to a method for masking an item among a plurality of items displayed on a touchscreen terminal, the method being such that it has, following an action () by a user, steps of display () of a masking symbol associated with an item at a first location; of detection () of contact with the screen on a non-masked item; of continuous movement () of the masking symbol on the item in correlation with movement of the contact detected on the screen and of masking of that portion of the item that is situated between the masking symbol and the first location; and of masking () of the whole of the item when the masking symbol is at a second location and the contact is no longer detected. The invention likewise relates to a device and a terminal that implement this method.

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Violaine Mercier