System, method, and application for exchanging content in a social network environment

• US 10,198,777 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2017
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SGPH LLC
• Original Assignee: Remote Media LLC (Vertigo Media, Inc.)
• Inventors: Savenok, Alexander, Savenok, Pavel, Leekley, Gregory H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tu T
• Application Number:
  US15/407,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20170124664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 709217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/065 using e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/384 using social networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/386 using messaging services or messaging apps using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS G06Q20/3255
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1845 broadcast or multicast in a specific location, e.g. geocast protocols for adapting network applications to user terminal location H04L67/52; services specially adapted for wireless communication networks making use of the location of users or terminals H04W4/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1063 Discovery through centralising entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1074 for supporting data block transmission mechanisms file transfer H04L67/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

Users share live (SHARE LIVE) content in real-time by sharing socially-targeted user-selected/generated content while simultaneously consuming content from any integrated content provider. In the context of an exemplary music-based scenario, the user, while listening to music from any integrated music provider, may initiate a SHARE LIVE session such that concurrent data streams are maintained and media playback information is managed separately from media content playback channels. Information about playback events is continuously transmitted via facilitated sockets. Other users may consume shared content (LISTEN LIVE) by tapping a proprietary resolution method to identify and properly source the media content files the broadcaster is sharing. Independent social broadcast streams may also be overlaid atop the direct playback of media content from a preferred provider as governed by the proprietary resolution method. An event-handling micro-service maintains and combines the broadcaster'"'"'s content playback actions and social content, which are synchronized on multiple user devices.

Claims

1. A non-transitory, computer-implementable media content-sharing system, the media content-sharing system being operable within a network-based media content playback environment comprising at least two computers for providing a selectively sourced media content broadcast to at least one consumer of the selectively sourced media content broadcast having access to a first of the least two computers for sharing user-selected/generated social content while simultaneously broadcasting and consuming variously sourced media content within the network environment, the media content-sharing system providing concurrent data streams within the network environment for separately and respectively managing (a) media content playback instructions via an instruction-passing secondary channel of the media content-sharing system and (b) media content playback via a content-delivery primary channel of the media content-sharing system, the concurrent data streams thus for sourcing consumable legally-protected media content to the at least one consumer of the selectively sourced media content broadcast from at least one user-preferred select legal access point for each consumer of the selectively sourced media content broadcast and enabling simultaneous social interaction in the context of variously sourced media content deriving from the respective user-preferred select legal access points.

2. The media content-sharing system of claim 1 wherein playback event information is continuously transmitted via facilitated sockets.

3. The media content-sharing system of claim 1 wherein the variously sourced media content is sourced by way of a proprietary resolution method to identify and source media content files as controlled by each consumer of the selectively sourced media content broadcast.

4. The media content-sharing system of claim 1 comprising a data-routing compliance appliance for providing (a) industry rights management (b) compliance monitoring and/or (c) compliance reporting of data file transmissions of routed, legally-protected data.

5. The media content-sharing system of claim 4 wherein the compliance appliance enables virtual currency generation via optimal source routing governance.

6. The media content-sharing system of claim 1 wherein independent social broadcast streams are sourced to each consumer of the selectively sourced media content broadcast via the instruction-passing secondary channel and media content playback is delivered via the content-delivery primary channel, the independent social broadcast streams thus being simultaneously overlaid atop media content play.

7. The media content sharing system of claim 1 comprising an event-handling micro-service, the event-handling micro-service for maintaining, managing, and synchronizing media and social content delivery within the network environment.

8. A method for implementing a subscription-based social media platform within a network-based media content playback environment comprising at least two computers for providing a selectively sourced media content broadcast to at least one consumer having access to a first of the least two computers, the method comprising the steps of:

server-receiving from a social content broadcasting client computer an Application Programming Interface (API) request for initializing a social exchange via an instruction-passing secondary channel in parallel to a content-delivery primary channel, the API request thereby being atop a media content delivery stream, the API request being generated by an application running on the social content broadcasting client computer;

server-storing metadata information of the received API request in a database coupled to a method-enabling server;

server-sending a configuration request to an encoding service provider, the configuration request requesting a plurality of stream configurations;

server-receiving a protocol location from the encoding service provider;

server-storing stream information in the database;

server-sending the protocol location to the social content broadcasting client computer; and

server-receiving a notification from the social content broadcasting client computer that the social content broadcasting client computer has initiated the social exchange atop the media content delivery stream.