Method and System of Online Broadcasting

• US 20080072247A1
• Filed: 09/18/2007
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John Russell Barnard
• Original Assignee: John Russell Barnard
• Inventors: Barnard, John Russell
• Application Number:
  US11/856,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20080072247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/82 using signals not modulated onto a carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/80 characterised by transmission among terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Method and system of online broadcasting. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising enabling a plurality of people from disparate physical locations to interact with each other via an Internet-based community, broadcasting a live stream of video through the Internet-based community to those of the plurality of people who elect to receive the live stream of video (wherein the live stream of video is provided from any of the plurality of people), and displaying the live stream of video on a video screen of each of the plurality of people who elect to receive the live video.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

enabling a plurality of people from disparate physical locations to interact with each other via an Internet-based community; and

broadcasting a live stream of video through the Internet-based community to those of the plurality of people who elect to receive the live stream of video, wherein the live stream of video is provided from any of the plurality of people; and

displaying the live stream of video on a video screen of each of the plurality of people who elect to receive the live stream of video.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising placing a banner advertisement in an area bordering an area where the live stream of video is displayed.

3. The method according to claim 2 further comprising selecting the banner advertisement based on a genre of the live stream of video.

4. The method according to claim 2 further comprising billing an advertiser based on the number of unique IP addresses receiving the live stream of video.

5. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

interrupting a live portion of the live stream of video; and

broadcasting advertisements during in the live stream of video the interrupting.

6. The method according to claim 5 further comprising billing an advertiser based on the number of unique IP addresses receiving the live stream of video.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein enabling further comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of:

providing text-based chat between any two or more of the plurality of people;

providing a user maintained profile for each of the plurality of people, where each user profile is available for viewing by selected others of plurality of people;

providing the user maintained profile for each of the plurality of people, where each user profile is available to any of the selected others of plurality of people;

providing electronic messaging through the Internet-based community.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein broadcasting further comprises broadcasting to at least some of the plurality of people without requiring a log-in process or a subscription.

9. A method of advertising comprising:

broadcasting a live stream of video over the Internet, the live stream of video associated with an advertisement for an advertiser; and

billing the advertiser based on a number of unique viewers that receive the live stream of video.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein broadcasting further comprises broadcasting the live stream of video with a banner advertisement in space abutting a video area of a screen of a recipient.

11. The method according to claim 9 wherein broadcasting further comprises temporarily interrupting a live portion of the live stream of video, and broadcasting the advertisement as video in the live stream of video during the interrupting.

12. The method according to claim 9 wherein billing further comprises billing the advertiser based on a number of unique Internet addresses that receive the live stream of video.

13. The method according to claim 9 wherein, prior to broadcasting, selecting the advertisement based on a topic of the live stream of video.

14. The method according to claim 9 wherein broadcasting further comprises broadcasting to a plurality of people without requiring the plurality of people to pay a subscription to receive the live stream of video.

15. The method according to claim 9 wherein broadcasting further comprises broadcasting to a plurality of people without requiring the plurality of people to log in to a service.

16. A system comprising:

a first computer system coupled to the Internet, the first computer system configured to enable a plurality of people from disparate physical locations to interact with each other via a web page hosted, at least in part, on the first computer system;

a second computer system coupled to the Internet and the second computer system, the second computer system configured to accept a live stream of video from any of the plurality of people, and to broadcast the live stream of video to any other of the plurality of people, wherein the live stream of video is accessible through the web page.

17. The system according to claim 16 wherein the first computer system is further configured to place banner advertisements on the web page proximate to the live stream of video.

18. The system according to claim 16 further comprising:

wherein the second computer system is configured to accept an indication of a topic of the live stream of video; and

wherein the first computer system is configured to select an advertisement based on the topic and to place the advertisements on the web page proximate to the live stream of video.

19. The system according to claim 16 further comprising:

wherein the first computer system is further configured to place banner advertisements on the web page proximate to the live stream of video; and

wherein the system is configured to determine a number of unique Internet Protocol addresses that receive the live stream of video.

20. The system according to claim 16 further comprising wherein the second computer system is configured to interrupt a live portion of the live stream of video and broadcast an advertisement in the live stream of video during the interruption.

21. The system according to claim 20 further comprising wherein the system is configured to determine a number of unique Internet Protocol addresses that receive the live stream of video.

22. The system according to claim 16 wherein the first computer system is configured to at least one selected from the group consisting of:

provide text-based chat between any two or more of the plurality of people;

provide a user maintained profile for each of the plurality of people, where each user profile is available to selected others of plurality of people;

provide the user maintained profile for each of the plurality of people, where each user profile is available to any of the selected others of plurality of people;

provide electronic messaging through the Internet-based community.

23. The system according to claim 16 wherein the system does not require a log-in or subscription for any of the plurality of people to receive the live stream of video.