US 2025/0063231 A1Published application

Servers and methods

Assignee17LIVE Japan Inc.

InventorNagisa TASHIRO

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Abstract

A server includes a means for receiving, from a terminal via a network, a start request that includes information relating to a first gift specified on the terminal and information relating to a target streamer, a means for starting a period during which a second gift that is different from the first gift can be used during a livestreaming of the target streamer upon receiving the start request, a means for storing a parameter that is updated each time the second gift is used, and a means for enabling distribution of an electronic value associated with the first gift to a viewer when distribution conditions are satisfied. The distribution conditions include (1) a viewed time condition relating to a viewed time during which the livestreaming of the target streamer is viewed by viewers, and (2) a parameter condition relating to the parameter.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A terminal of a viewer of a live-stream, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
memory storing one or more computer programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors,
the one or more computer programs including instructions for:
receiving, from a server via a network, video data relating to the live-stream;
displaying a live-stream room screen on a display of the terminal, the live-stream room screen including a streamer image obtained by playing the received video data and a lottery gift object;
detecting selection of the lottery gift object by the viewer on the live-stream room screen;
in response to detecting selection of the lottery gift object by the viewer on the live-stream room screen, transmitting, to the server via the network, a signal that includes a lottery gift ID corresponding to the selected lottery gift object and a viewer ID of the viewer;
receiving, from the server via the network, a lottery result notification indicating the result of the lottery, the lottery being performed at the server;
and
in a case where the lottery result notification indicates loss, deactivating the lottery gift object for a predetermined time period.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/936,163Filed 4 Nov 2024
Priority: JP 2022-02794625 Feb 2022
Published: 20 Feb 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04N 21/4784
Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application: receiving rewards
H04N 21/2187
Source of audio or video content , e.g. local disk arrays: live feed
H04N 21/44204
Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times…
H04N
Pictorial communication

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Application17/983,985Continuation · filed 9 Nov 2022
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