US 12,192,581 B2Granted

Online media broadcast system and method

AssigneeTechno Miam LLC

InventorFrancois-Louis Mertens

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Abstract

An online broadcasting system is provided. The system combines live video streaming, video on demand (VOD), messaging and other media content provided by an owner of a live broadcast and/or by the owner's online followers. The media content may be combined into a single broadcast stream. The owner of the broadcast may use an online control room to choose in real time what multimedia content to provide to his/her followers. The system also provides for interaction between the followers and interactive elements that the owner may create through the system. A gaming and/or revenue sharing component also may be provided wherein the owner and the followers may earn points for viewing and/or interacting with sponsored media through the system.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer readable medium, having stored thereon, instructions that when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations for broadcasting media in a broadcasting system comprising a media stream combiner configured with at least one server, the operations comprising:

(A) providing at a first client device associated with a first user, a first graphical user interface including a first primary video player and at least one live stream video player including a video viewing pane with a video viewing pane size defined by a video viewing pane perimeter and one or more live stream video viewing pane selectable areas within the video viewing pane perimeter, each of the one or more live stream video viewing pane selectable areas including a corresponding selectable area size that is less than the video viewing pane size and that is selectable as an individual user interface element;
(B) providing at a second client device associated with a second user, a second graphical user interface including a second primary video player including a second primary video player pane and at least one additional video player pane overlaid the second primary video player pane;
(C) providing to a first at least one live stream video player a first live stream video;
(D) by the broadcasting system, receiving an indication of a selection of a first one or more live stream video player selectable area of the first at least one live stream video player;
(E) by the broadcasting system, when the indication of the selection of the first one or more live stream video player selectable area of the first at least one live stream video player is received:
(F) identifying the first live stream video;
and
(G) providing at a first at least one additional video player pane, the first live stream video identified in (F).

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(A) providing at a first client device associated with a first user, a first graphical user interface including a first primary video player and at least one video on demand player including one or more video on demand player selectable areas each selectable as an individual user interface element;
(B) providing at a second client device associated with a second user, a second graphical user interface including a second primary video player including a second primary video player pane and at least one additional video player pane overlaid the second primary video player pane;
(C) providing to a first at least video on demand player a first video on demand video;
(D) by the broadcasting system, receiving an indication of a selection of a first one or more video on demand player selectable area of the first at least one video on demand player;
(E) by the broadcasting system, when the indication of the selection of the first one or more video on demand player selectable area of the first at least one video on demand player is received:
(F) identifying the first video on demand video;
and
(G) providing at a first at least one additional video player pane, the first video on demand video identified in (F).

5 more elements

(A) providing at a first client device associated with a first user, a first graphical user interface including a first primary video player and at least one live stream video player including a video viewing pane with a video viewing pane size defined by a video viewing pane perimeter and two or more separate and distinct live stream video viewing pane selectable areas within the video viewing pane perimeter, each of the two or more live stream video viewing pane selectable areas including a corresponding selectable area size that is less than the video viewing pane size and that is selectable as an individual user interface element;
(B) providing at a second client device associated with a second user, a second graphical user interface including a second primary video player including a second primary video player pane and at least one additional video player pane overlaid the second primary video player pane;
(C) providing to a first at least one live stream video player a first live stream video;
(D) by the broadcasting system, receiving an indication of a selection of a first one of the two or more live stream video viewing pane selectable area of the first at least one live stream video player;
(E) by the broadcasting system, when the indication of the selection of the first one of the two or more live stream video viewing pane selectable area of the first at least one live stream video player is received:
(F) identifying the first live stream video;
and
(G) providing at a first at least one additional video player pane, the first live stream video identified in (F).

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/373,567Filed 12 Jul 2021 · continuation in part
Priority: 2 Oct 2019
Published: US 2022/0038780 A13 Feb 2022
Granted: 7 Jan 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04N 21/4622
Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic programme guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end or…:…
H04N 21/2187
Source of audio or video content , e.g. local disk arrays: live feed
H04N 21/23424
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving splicing one…
H04N 21/25866
Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users…:…

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Application16/591,497Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 2 Oct 2019
US 2022/0038780 A1Pre-grant publication · published 3 Feb 2022
US 11,064,232 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2021/0105512 A1Published application
US 12,192,581 B2This patent

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