Highlighting portions of a live video broadcast

• US 10,664,524 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2017
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sarkar, Shilpa, Silber, Ian McIntyre
• Primary Examiner(s): Tokuta, Shean
• Assistant Examiner(s): Turriate Gastulo, Juan C
• Application Number:
  US15/703,647
• Publication Number:
  US 20190079941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 986 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7864 using domain-transform features, e.g. DCT or wavelet transform coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/308 Route determination based on user's profile, e.g. premium users
• 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 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for enabling better control over a live video broadcast. For example, systems and methods described herein enable a broadcaster to indicate one or more highlighted portions of a live video broadcast. Systems and method described herein further provide a video broadcast viewer the ability to scrub through the video broadcast directly to the highlighted portions of the live video broadcast.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

broadcasting, via a networking system and to one or more co-users of a networking system user, a live video broadcast received from the networking system user;

determining, during the live video broadcast, one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast in response to receiving during the live video broadcast one or more corresponding user inputs indicative of a highlighted portion;

after the live video broadcast has ended, presenting to the network system user a set of upload options to upload to an ephemeral content collection associated with the network system user, the set of upload options comprising an option to upload an unhighlighted full version of the live video broadcast and an option to upload the one or more highlighted portions indicated during the live video broadcast;

receiving, from the networking system user, a request based on a selected option from the set of upload options to add the one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast to the ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user; and

adding, in response to the request, the one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast to the ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user comprises one or more digital media items in addition to the highlighted portions of the live video broadcast.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining, during the live video broadcast, one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast further comprises receiving networking system activity information associated with the live video broadcast.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein determining, during the live video broadcast, one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast further comprises:

analyzing the received networking system activity information to identify a portion of the live video broadcast associated with a threshold amount of networking system activity; and

determining the identified portion of the live video broadcast is a highlighted portion.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising receiving during the live video broadcast one or more corresponding user inputs indicative of a highlighted portion, wherein receiving one or more corresponding user inputs indicative of a highlighted portion comprises receiving metadata, the metadata comprising a starting highlight timestamp and an ending highlight timestamp defining the highlighted portion in the live video broadcast.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising generating, in response to determining the live video broadcast has ended, a recording of the unhighlighted full version of the live video broadcast.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein one of the upload options to upload the unhighlighted full version of the live video broadcast comprises:

adding the recording of the unhighlighted full version of the live video broadcast to the ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user; and

configuring playback of the recording within the ephemeral content collection to include highlighted portion indicators corresponding to the determined one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

determining a threshold amount of time has elapsed since adding the one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast to the ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user; and

removing, in response to the threshold amount of time elapsing, the one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast from the ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user.

19. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the set of upload options further comprises an option to cancel uploading the live video broadcast.

9. A method comprising:

providing, by a broadcasting device, a live video broadcasting graphical user interface comprising a display of a feed of image frames captured by an active camera associated with the broadcasting device;

detecting an initiation of a live video broadcast;

detecting, during the live video broadcast, a user interaction indicating a highlighted portion of the live video broadcast;

generating, in response to the detected user interaction, metadata representative of a duration of the user interaction relative to the duration of the live video broadcast;

generating, in response to a detected end of the live video broadcast, a recording of an unhighlighted full version of the live video broadcast, and associating the generated metadata with the recording;

after the detected end of the live video broadcast, presenting a set of upload options in the live video broadcasting graphical user interface to upload to an ephemeral content collection associated with the broadcasting user, the set of upload options comprising an option to upload the unhighlighted full version of the live video broadcast and an option to upload the highlighted portion indicated during the live video broadcast; and

sending a request based on a selected option from the set of upload options to add the highlighted portion to the ephemeral content collection.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein detecting, during the live video broadcast, the user interaction indicating a highlighted portion of the live video broadcast comprises detecting a touch gesture anywhere in connection with a touch screen display of the broadcasting device.

11. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein detecting, during the live video broadcast, the user interaction indicating a highlighted portion of the live video broadcast comprises detecting a user interaction with a display element displayed on the live video broadcasting graphical user interface.

12. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein generating metadata representative of a duration of the user interaction relative to the duration of the live video broadcast comprises:

determining a starting highlight timestamp associated with a detected initiation of the user interaction;

determining an ending highlight timestamp associated with a detected end of the user interaction; and

generating metadata comprising the starting highlight timestamp and the ending highlight timestamp.

13. The method as recited in claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, from a networking system during the live video broadcast, networking system activity information associated with the live video broadcast; and

providing, via the live video broadcasting graphical user interface, the networking system activity information in real-time.

20. The method as recited in claim 9, further comprising:

after the detected end of the live video broadcast, presenting a broadcast summary that includes information regarding a number and an identity of viewers of the live video broadcast.

14. A method comprising:

providing, by a viewer device, an ephemeral content collection associated with a broadcaster, the ephemeral content collection comprising a plurality of collection segments, at least one collection segment including a recording of a live video broadcast;

providing, during playback of the recording of the live video broadcast, an ephemeral content collection timeline indicating playback progress for the recording of the live video broadcast relative to the plurality of collection segments in the ephemeral content collection;

detecting, during playback of the recording of the live video broadcast, a user interaction in association with the ephemeral content collection;

providing, in response to the detected user interaction and within the ephemeral content collection, a replacement for the ephemeral content collection timeline that includes a video broadcast recording timeline indicating playback progress for the recording of the live video broadcast relative to the at least one collection segment including the recording of the live video broadcast, wherein the video broadcast recording timeline matches the playback progress for the recording of the live video broadcast in the ephemeral content collection timeline and wherein the video broadcast recording timeline comprises a plurality of highlighted portion indicators; and

removing, in response to detecting an end of the user interaction, the video broadcast recording timeline from the ephemeral content collection.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

determining, prior to detecting an end of the user interaction, the user interaction has changed; and

scrubbing, in response to determining the user interaction has changed, playback of the recording of the live video broadcast in a manner that corresponds to one or more characteristics of the changed user interaction.

16. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein determining the user interaction has changed comprises determining a swipe touch gesture has occurred in combination with a press-and-hold touch gesture.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein scrubbing playback of the recording of the live video broadcast in a manner that corresponds to one or more characteristics of the changed user interaction comprises one of:

fast-forwarding playback of the recording of the live video broadcast in response to a detected swipe-right touch gesture in combination with the press-and-hold touch gesture;

or

rewinding playback of the recording of the live video broadcast in response to a detected swipe-left touch gesture in combination with the press-and-hold touch gesture.

18. The method as recited in claim 17, wherein one or more collection segments of the plurality of collection segments correspond to a digital media item displayed in the ephemeral content collection.