Livestream conversation notifications
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsJustin Lewis, Joseph Cohen
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Abstract
Implementations disclose livestream conversation notifications. A method includes receiving, via a first user device over a network, a livestream video; presenting, via the first user device to a first user, the livestream video; selecting, from contacts of the first user, a set of contacts with whom the livestream video is to be shared, the selecting being based on affinity scores of the contacts; and causing a transmission, to the selected set of contacts, of a notification that at least the first user is watching the livestream video.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, via a first user device over a network, a livestream video;
- presenting, via the first user device to a first user, the livestream video;
- and
- subsequent to determining that the first user is in a text conversation with a second user, causing a transmission, to a second user device of the second user, of a notification that at least the first user is watching the livestream video.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:
- transmitting, over a network, a livestream video to a first user device to cause the livestream video to be presented, via the first user device, to a first user;
- and
- subsequent to determining that the first user is in a text conversation with a second user, causing a transmission, to a second user device of the second user, of a notification that at least the first user is watching the livestream video.
A method comprising:
- presenting a livestream video hosted by a first platform via a first user device to a first user;
- determining that the first user is in a text conversation with a second user via a second platform;
- causing a notification that at least the first user is watching the livestream video to be sent to a second user device of the second user, wherein the notification is an invitation to watch the livestream video;
- upon receiving an indication that the second user has accepted the invitation, causing the livestream video to be presented to the second user on a user interface of the first platform;
- and
- causing the text conversation between the first user and the second user to be continued on the user interface of the first platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.