# US 10,320,859 B2 · Multiple user interactive interface

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- Number: US 10,320,859 B2
- Document ID: US10320859B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/657,580
- Filed: 2015-03-13
- Published: 2015-09-10
- Granted: 2019-06-11
- Earliest claimed: 2009-08-28
- Applicants: Robert H. Cohen
- Inventors: Robert H. Cohen
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10320859B2

## CPC

- H04L 65/403: Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15)
- H04L 12/1818: {Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties}
- H04L 12/185: {with management of multicast group membership}
- H04L 67/10: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46)
- H04N 21/252: {Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data}
- H04N 21/475: End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. personal identification number [PIN], preference data
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

A plurality of participants in a conversation may be scored based on ability to correctly answer questions and based on entertainment value as determined by viewers of the conversation. The conversation may be in the form of a game, or may include a number of different substantially simultaneous conversations. Audio data and video data of the conversation may be transmitted over a network, and viewer scores of the participants in the conversation may be received over the network. Participants in future conversation may be selected based on their skill in answering questions and their entertainment value, with different future conversations using different weightings of skill scores and entertainment scores in determining who may participate in the conversation.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method using a computer of providing conversation data, comprising:
receiving, by a server, requests over a network from potential participants to participate in substantially simultaneous conversations;
determining, by the server, participants in the substantially simultaneous conversations;
receiving, by the server, conversation information of the participants over the network, the conversation information including streamed audio data from a microphone and video data from a video camera for each of the participants;
formatting a display area of a display for display of at least some of the conversation information for each of the participants, the display area including a box for display of the video data of the conversation information for each of the participants; and
transmitting, by the server, the conversation information over the network to the participants and a plurality of viewers, at least some of the conversation information, including the video data for each of the participants, being formatted in accordance with the display area, and transmitting along with the conversation information an indication of source of the conversation information for each participant;
wherein the conversation information includes information of the substantially simultaneous conversations between different ones of the participants, and wherein the display includes a menu for selecting audio data for only one of the plurality of substantially simultaneous conversations; and
further comprising transmitting, by the server, for each participant an indicator of a source of information about that participant;
wherein the indicator of the source of information about that participant is a uniform resource locator (URL).

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 wherein the conversation information further includes text data.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting, by the server, along with the conversation information an indication of initiator of each of the substantially simultaneous conversations between different ones of the participants.