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Spectating data service for a spectating system

  • US 10,484,439 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2015
  • Issued: 11/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system, comprising:

  • one or more computing devices configured to implement a spectating system configured to;

    obtain one or more broadcasts from one or more broadcaster devices, wherein each broadcast shows game play of a respective broadcaster participating as a player in a game executing on a game system;

    generate broadcast content for the one or more broadcasts at least in part according to game metadata for the game received from the game system;

    stream the one or more broadcasts and the broadcast content to a plurality of spectator devices;

    record audiovisual (AN) content for the broadcasts;

    obtain and store spectator interactions with the broadcasts and broadcast content as spectating data;

    determine spectating data metrics indicating spectator states during the broadcasts based at least in part on analysis of the spectating data;

    store correlations between the spectating data and the A/V content according to the spectating data metrics; and

    expose the spectating data, the spectating data metrics and the A/V content to one or more spectating data consumer devices according to a spectating data interface.

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