System and method for multi-user digital interactive experience
AssigneeDressbot, Inc.
InventorsSami Siddique, Brad Stimpson
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Abstract
Described herein is a methods and systems for providing a digital interactive experience. Interactive experiences include, but not limited to, synchronized video playback, video and text chat between two or more participants, and interactive live event participation combining synchronized video, text and video chatting. The system comprises persistent and non-persistent components to which a plurality of participants in the interactive experience may connect.
Claims14
A method of providing synchronized interactive media to a publishing group and a distribution group participating in a shared synchronized interactive experience, the method comprising:
- providing, by an application server, an application stream to a mixer,
- receiving, by the mixer, a plurality of publisher streams corresponding to a first plurality of user devices in the publishing group, the first plurality of user devices associated with a first plurality of users, each publisher stream comprising at least one selected from the group of an audio and a video stream,
- receiving, by the mixer, an interaction stream comprising user input from a second plurality of user devices in the distribution group, the second plurality of user devices associated with a second plurality of users, the interaction stream defining interactions with the shared synchronized interactive experience,
- composing, at the mixer, a composite media stream comprising the application stream, two or more of the plurality of publisher streams corresponding to the first plurality of user devices in the publishing group, and the interaction stream,
- sending, by the mixer, the composite media stream to a distributor,
- sending, by the distributor, the composite media stream to the second plurality of user devices in the distribution group, and
- wherein the composite media stream, the plurality of publisher streams corresponding to the first plurality of user devices in the publishing group, and the interaction stream are synchronous.
A system for providing synchronized interactive media playback to a publisher group and a distribution group participating in a shared synchronized interactive experience, the system comprising:
- an application server transmitting an application stream to a mixer,
- a plurality of publishers in a publisher group corresponding to a first plurality of user devices associated with a first plurality of users,
- the plurality of publishers transmitting a plurality of publisher streams to a mixer, each publisher stream comprising at least one selected from the group of an audio stream and a video stream,
- a plurality of recipients in a distribution group corresponding to a second plurality of user devices associated with a second plurality of users in network communication with a distributor,
- the plurality of recipients transmitting a plurality of interaction streams to the mixer, each of the plurality of interaction streams defining interactions with the shared synchronized interactive experience,
- the mixer composing a composite media stream comprising two or more of the plurality of publisher streams, the plurality of interaction streams, and the application stream,
- wherein:
- the application stream, the composite media stream, the plurality of publisher streams, and the plurality of interaction streams are synchronous;
- the distributor receiving the composite media stream from the mixer, and
- the distributor sending the composite media stream to the second plurality of user devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.