US 2025/0168415 A1Published application

Method and server for handling streaming data

Assignee17LIVE Japan Inc.

InventorsYungChi HSU, Ming-Che CHENG, Shao Yuan WU

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Abstract

The subject application relates to a method and server for handling streaming data, and includes: Obtaining a request for entering the live streaming as an invisible viewer; in response to obtaining the request, starting to provide a first user terminal of a first viewer with the streaming data for the live streaming while setting information on the first viewer invisible to other viewers and a streamer; and in response to detecting a first action of the first viewer in the live streaming, setting at least a part of the information visible to at least a part of the other viewers and the streamer. According to the subject application, it is possible to encourage further communication between the streamer and the viewer, and enhance user-user interactions through the live streaming.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving a selection of a live streaming by a user of a user terminal, the live streaming having a first mode, a second mode and a third mode, the user being invisible in the first mode to a distributor of the live streaming and other users who are viewing the live streaming, the user being visible in the second mode to the distributor of the live streaming and the other users who are viewing the live streaming, and the user being partially visible in the third mode to the distributor of the live streaming and the other users who are viewing the live streaming;
wherein the information from the user to be disclosed to the distributor of the live streaming and the other users who are viewing the live streaming in the third mode is between that in the first mode and the second mode;
starting, upon receipt of the selection of the live streaming by the user of the user terminal, viewing of the live streaming in the first mode without receiving any input from the user to determine whether to start the live streaming either in the first mode or in the second mode;
accepting a first predetermined user input during viewing of the live streaming in the first mode;
and
in response to acceptance of the first predetermined user input, enabling viewing of the live streaming in the second mode or the third mode.

3 more elements

A server comprising a circuitry, wherein the circuitry is configured to perform:

receiving a selection of a live streaming by a user of a user terminal, the live streaming having a first mode, a second mode and a third mode, the user being invisible in the first mode to a distributor of the live streaming and other users who are viewing the live streaming, the user being visible in the second mode to the distributor of the live streaming and the other users who are viewing the live streaming, and the user being partially visible in the third mode to the distributor of the live streaming and the other users who are viewing the live streaming;
wherein the information from the user to be disclosed to the distributor of the live streaming and the other users who are viewing the live streaming in the third mode is between that in the first mode and the second mode;
starting, upon receipt of the selection of the live streaming by the user of the user terminal, viewing of the live streaming in the first mode without receiving any input from the user to determine whether to start the live streaming either in the first mode or in the second mode;
accepting a first predetermined user input during viewing of the live streaming in the first mode;
and
in response to acceptance of the first predetermined user input, enabling viewing of the live streaming in the second mode or the third mode.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 19/030,298Filed 17 Jan 2025
Priority: JP 2022-02868225 Feb 2022
Published: 22 May 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04N 21/2187
Source of audio or video content , e.g. local disk arrays: live feed
H04N 21/41407
Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance: embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile…
H04N 21/4223
Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]: cameras
H04N 21/4316
Involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations: for displaying…

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Application17/972,983Continuation · filed 25 Oct 2022
Application19/030,298Continuation
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