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US 12,659,498 B2Granted
Rolling buffer for retroactive capture of clips
AssigneeDiscord Inc.
InventorsChao Chen, Benjamin Morse
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Abstract
The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for to facilitate user accounts participating in live audio-video sessions such as voice and/or video calls, or watching game play remotely to capture a clip of the video call or game play after seeing some event during the live audio-video session. The present technology can maintain a rolling buffer of the audio-video streams such that a user account can retroactively capture a clip of the audio-video streams after it has already been presented.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving audio-video streams in a live audio-video session, the audio-video streams including video frames and at least two streams of audio associated with the video frames;
- storing the video frames and the at least two streams of audio in a rolling buffer that overwrites older data as new data is received;
- receiving an instruction to save a clip of the audio-video streams, the clip to consist of at least a portion of the audio-video streams that has already occurred and is stored in the rolling buffer;
- while continuing to receive audio-video streams in the live audio-video session,
- retroactively saving the at least the portion of the audio-video streams stored in the rolling buffer in a persistent memory for editing, whereby the at least the portion of the audio-video streams is saved after it has already been presented;
- and
- providing an graphical user interface to edit the video frames and the at least two streams of audio from the portion of the audio-video streams stored in the persistent memory, wherein the graphical user interface to edit provides an edited clip.
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A computing apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the apparatus to:
- receive audio-video streams in a live audio-video session, the audio-video streams including video frames and at least two streams of audio associated with the video frames;
- store the video frames and the at least two streams of audio in a rolling buffer;
- receive an instruction to save a clip of the audio-video streams, the clip to consist of at least a portion of the audio-video streams that has already occurred and is stored in the rolling buffer;
- while continuing to receive audio-video streams in the live audio-video session,
- retroactively save the at least the portion of the audio-video streams stored in the rolling buffer in a persistent memory for editing, whereby the at least the portion of the audio-video streams is saved after it has already been presented;
- and
- provide ana graphical user interface to edit the video frames and the at least two streams of audio from the portion of the audio-video streams stored in the persistent memory, wherein the graphical user interface to edit provides an edited clip.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
- receive audio-video streams in a live audio-video session, the audio-video streams including video frames and at least two streams of audio associated with the video frames;
- store the video frames and the at least two streams of audio in a rolling buffer;
- receive an instruction to save a clip of the audio-video streams, the clip to consist of at least a portion of the audio-video streams that has already occurred and is stored in the rolling buffer;
- while continuing to receive audio-video streams in the live audio-video session,
- retroactively save the at least the portion of the audio-video streams stored in the rolling buffer in a persistent memory for editing, whereby the at least the portion of the audio-video streams is saved after it has already been presented;
- and
- provide ana graphical user interface to edit the video frames and the at least two streams of audio from the portion of the audio-video streams stored in the persistent memory, wherein the graphical user interface to edit provides an edited clip.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.