Messaging for event live-stream

• US 10,104,022 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2014
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Lewis, Justin, Greene, Kevin
• Primary Examiner(s): Long, Andrea
• Application Number:
  US14/541,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20160149841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,433 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/51 Server architecture
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/572 Communication between players during game play of non game information, e.g. e-mail, chat, file transfer, streaming of audio and streaming of video
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/577 for watching a game played by other players
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5093 wherein the managed service relates to messaging or chat services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

A messaging system for a live event is described. A processing device provides a user interface having at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a media player streaming a live event having at least one active participant. The user interface is different from a native interface of an event hosting platform. The processing device receives one or more active participant messages entered via the native interface of the event hosting platform during the live event. The processing device also receives one or more viewer messages via the second portion of the user interface during the live event. The processing device provides the one or more active participant messages and the one or more viewer message for presentation in the second portion of the user interface during the live event. The presented viewer messages are integrated with the active participant messages.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing, by a processing device of a content platform, a user interface of the content platform, the user interface of the content platform having at least a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a media player streaming a live event provided by an event hosting platform, the live event having at least one active participant engaged in the live event via an event application displaying a native interface provided by an event hosting platform, wherein the content platform is different from the event hosting platform, and the user interface of the content platform is different from the native interface of the event hosting platform;

receiving one or more active participant messages entered by the at least one active participant during the live event via the native interface provided by the event hosting platform and displayed by the event application;

receiving one or more viewer messages entered by one or more viewers of the event via the second portion of the user interface of the content platform during the live event streamed by the media player in the first portion of the user interface of the content platform; and

providing the one or more active participant messages entered by the at least one active participant via the native interface provided by the event hosting platform and displayed by the event application for presentation with the one or more viewer messages entered via the user interface of the content platform, wherein the viewer messages are integrated and synchronized with the active participant messages and presented concurrently with the active participant messages in the second portion of the user interface of the content platform during the live event streamed by the media player in the first portion of the user interface of the content platform.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the live event is one of a video game, an educational lecture, a music festival, or a webcast.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more active participant messages comprise active participant messages from a plurality of active participants of the live event.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the one or more active participant messages and the one or more viewer messages for presentation comprises:

identifying an event identifier of the live event;

selecting the one or more viewer messages corresponding to the event identifier; and

selecting the one or more active participant messages corresponding to the event identifier.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a viewer request, via the user interface, to watch the live event.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more active participant messages and the one or more viewer messages are each associated with a timestamp.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

synchronizing the one or more active participant messages with the one or more viewer messages according to respective timestamps for an integrated presentation in the second portion of the user interface.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the live event is associated with a channel of a content platform, the method further comprising receiving, via the user interface, a request of the viewer to subscribe to the channel.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending the one or more viewer messages to the event hosting platform.

10. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to;

provide a user interface of a content platform, the user interface of the content platform having at least a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a media player streaming a live event provided by an event hosting platform, the live event having at least one active participant engaged in the live event via an event application displaying a native interface provided by an event hosting platform, wherein the content platform is different from the event hosting platform, and the user interface of the content platform is different from the native interface of the event hosting platform;

receive one or more active participant messages entered by the at least one active participant during the live event via the native interface provided by the event hosting platform and displayed by the event application;

receive one or more viewer messages entered by one or more viewers of the event via the second portion of the user interface of the content platform during the live event streamed by the media player in the first portion of the user interface of the content platform; and

provide the one or more active participant messages entered via the native interface provided by the event hosting platform and displayed by the event application for presentation with the one or more viewer messages entered via the user interface of the content platform, wherein the viewer messages are integrated and synchronized with the active participant messages and presented concurrently with the active participant messages in the second portion of the user interface of the content platform during the live event streamed by the media player in the first portion of the user interface of the content platform.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the live event is one of a video game, an educational lecture, a music festival, or a webcast.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein when providing the one or more active participant messages and the one or more viewer messages for presentation, the processing device is to:

identify an event identifier of the live event;

select the one or more viewer messages corresponding to the event identifier; and

select the one or more active participant messages corresponding to the event identifier.

13. The system of claim 10, the processing device further to receive a viewer request, via the user interface, to watch the live event.

14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

providing, by the processing device of a content platform, a user interface of the content platform, the user interface of the content platform having at least a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a media player streaming a live event provided by an event hosting platform, the live event having at least one active participant engaged in the live event via an event application displaying a native interface provided by an event hosting platform, wherein the content platform is different from the event hosting platform, and the user interface of the content platform is different from the native interface of the event hosting platform;

receiving one or more active participant messages entered by the at least one active participant during the live event via the native interface provided by the event hosting platform and displayed by the event application;

receiving one or more viewer messages entered by one or more viewers of the event via the second portion of the user interface of the content platform during the live event streamed by the media player in the first portion of the user interface of the content platform; and

providing the one or more active participant messages entered via the native interface provided by the event hosting platform and displayed by the event application for presentation with the one or more viewer messages entered via the user interface of the content platform, wherein the viewer messages are integrated and synchronized with the active participant messages and presented concurrently with the active participant messages in the second portion of the user interface of the content platform during the live event streamed by the media player in the first portion of the user interface of the content platform.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein providing the one or more active participant messages and the one or more viewer messages for presentation comprises:

identifying an event identifier of the live event;

selecting the one or more viewer messages corresponding to the event identifier; and

selecting the one or more active participant messages corresponding to the event identifier.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the one or more active participant messages and the one or more viewer messages are each associated with a timestamp.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, the operations further comprising synchronizing the one or more active participant messages with the one or more viewer messages according to respective timestamps for an integrated presentation in the second portion of the user interface.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, the operations further comprising sending the one or more viewer messages to the event hosting platform.