US 8,997,167 B1Granted

Live streaming video sharing system and related methods

AssigneeArizona Board of Regents

InventorsLee Bliss, Jenean M. Perelstein, John C. Georgas, Britt Weber Mullen, Bryce Evan Carey, Waylon Jay-Shije Dixon, Chad Michael Ellsworth

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Abstract

A live streaming video sharing system. Implementations may include a video camera, portable computing device, video streaming server, database, application server, web server, and a portable computing device associated with a user operatively coupled together. The video camera sends a live stream of video data wirelessly to the portable computing device. The computing device associated with a user receives a live stream of video data from the web server, processes the live stream of video data, and generates a computer interface. The computer interface may include a public computer interface including a public channel and an invisible computer interface including an invisible shares channel associated with the user including an icon corresponding with one or more invisible shares, each invisible share corresponding with a live stream of video data and each invisible share not retrievable using a search form in the computer interface, the application server, and the database.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A live streaming video sharing system comprising:

a video camera;
a portable computing device operatively coupled with the video camera through a wireless telecommunication channel;
a video streaming server operatively coupled with the portable computing device through a wireless telecommunication channel;
a database operatively coupled with the video streaming server and a web server;
wherein the video camera is adapted to send a live stream of video data using a first data transmission protocol across the wireless telecommunication channel to the portable computing device;
wherein the portable computing device is adapted to receive the live stream of video data in the first data transmission protocol, process the live stream of video data, and send the live stream of video data across the wireless telecommunication channel using a second data transmission protocol to the video streaming server;
and
wherein the video streaming server is adapted to receive the live stream of video data, process the live stream of video data in the second data transmission protocol, and send the live stream of video data using a third data transmission protocol into a telecommunication channel;
and
a computing device associated with a user;
wherein the computing device is adapted to receive the live stream of video data, process the live stream of video data in the third data transmission protocol, and generate a computer interface in response to receiving the live stream of video data, the computer interface comprising:
a public computer interface, the public computer interface comprising:
one or more public channels comprising one or more icons corresponding with one or more public shares, each public share corresponding with a live stream of video data;
and
a search form adapted to permit a user to search all public shares in the system using an application server and the database to retrieve a list of all public shares associated with a search term entered into the search form, each public share corresponding with a live stream of video data;
and
an invisible computer interface comprising:
an invisible shares channel associated with the user, the invisible shares channel comprising one or more icons corresponding with one or more invisible shares, each invisible share corresponding with a live stream of video data, each invisible share not retrievable using the search form, the application server, and the database;
and
an invisible shares inbox associated with the user, the invisible shares inbox including one or more icons corresponding with one or more invisible shares received by the user from another user of the system;
and
wherein one of the icons in the public computer interface or the invisible computer interface is associated with the live stream of video data and is adapted, when selected by the user, to generate a viewing computer interface that comprises the live video stream from the video camera.

19 more elements

A method of generating and transmitting live streaming point-of-view (POV) video, the method comprising:

encoding live POV video data using a POV video camera;
streaming the live POV video data into a wireless telecommunication channel to a portable computing device operatively wirelessly coupled with the video camera, the live POV video data transmitted using a first data transmission protocol;
streaming the live POV video data into a wireless telecommunication channel to a video streaming server operatively coupled with the portable computing device through a wireless telecommunication channel, the live POV video data transmitted using a second data transmission protocol;
in response to receiving the live POV video data, recording one or more channel characteristics associated with the live POV video and included in the live POV video data in a database operatively coupled with the video streaming server and an application server, using one of the video streaming server and the application server;
streaming the live POV video data into a telecommunication channel to a computing device associated with a user using one of the video streaming server, the application server, and a web server, the live POV video data transmitted using a third data transmission protocol;
and
processing the live POV video data and generating a computer interface using the computing device and the one or more channel characteristics, the computer interface comprising:
if the one or more channel characteristics indicate the live POV video data is associated with a public channel, a public computer interface;
if the one or more channel characteristics indicate the live POV video data is associated with an invisible channel associated with the user, an invisible computer interface;
and
wherein one of the icons in the public computer interface or the invisible computer interface is associated with the live POV video data;
in response to selection of an icon associated with the live POV video data, playing live POV video using the live POV video data in a viewing computer interface using the computing device.

9 more elements

A method of transmitting live streaming video to a public channel and to an invisible channel, the method comprising:

receiving live video data using a streaming server from a wireless telecommunication channel, the live video data transmitted using a second data transmission protocol and a portable computing device, the portable computing device receiving the live video data from a wireless telecommunication channel using a first data transmission protocol from a video camera;
in response to receiving the live video data, recording one or more channel characteristics associated with the live video and included in the live video data in a database operatively coupled with the video streaming server and an application server, using one of the application server and the video streaming server;
providing access to the live video data using the database and the one or more channel characteristics through a telecommunication channel using one of the video streaming server, the application server, and a web server, wherein one of the video streaming server, the application server, and the web server are adapted to, in response to a request from a computing device associated with a user, stream the live video data using the telecommunication channel and a third data transmission protocol to the computing device, where the computing device is adapted to generate a computer interface using the computing device and the one or more channel characteristics where the computer interface comprises:
if the one or more channel characteristics indicate the live video data is associated with a public channel, a public computer interface;
if the one or more channel characteristics indicate the live video data is associated with an invisible channel associated with the user, a private computer interface;
and
wherein one of the icons in the public computer interface or in the private computer interface is associated with the live video data;
and in response to selection of an icon associated with the live video data in one of the public computer interface and in the private computer interface, the computing device is adapted to play live video using the live video data in a viewing computer interface.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/150,583Filed 8 Jan 2014
Granted: 31 Mar 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04N 21/2187
Source of audio or video content , e.g. local disk arrays: live feed
H04N 21/23106
Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion:…
H04N 21/2743
Storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request , e.g. network recorder: video hosting of uploaded data from client
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…