METHOD FOR PROVIDING EVENT BASED MEDIA STREAMS

• US 20110066743A1
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R1 Demand, LLC
• Original Assignee: Clixtr, Inc. (RadiumOne, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ofstad, Andrew J., Hurley, Fergus Gerard, Smith, Brad A., Lacombe, Romain Henri
• Granted Patent: US 8,510,383 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• 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 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

A method for sharing event media in real-time by creating a media stream associated with an event location by gathering location information and receiving media from a first user; publishing the media stream to a participant zone; and adding content to the media stream by a second user in the participant zone. The participant zone is an area in which users are allowed event participant access, and the area extends from the event location.

Claims

1. A method for sharing event media in real-time comprising:

creating a media stream associated with an event location by gathering location information to use as the event location and receiving media from the first user;

publishing the media stream to a participant zone that is an area in which users are allowed event participant access, the area extending from the event location; and

adding content to media steam contributed by a second user in the participant zone.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the media stream is associated with an event that is a social gathering defined by the event location and a time duration.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the participant zone is defined by an area within a set distance from the event location.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the media is captured by a mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the location information is gathered by a global positioning system (GPS) of the mobile computing device.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the step of publishing the media stream further includes:

determining location of a second user,

identifying at least one media steam with a participant zone covering the location of the second user, and

allowing event participant access to the identified media stream.

7. The method of claim 4, further including collecting location information from a plurality of users contributing media to the media stream and averaging the collected location information to determine the event location.

8. The method of claim 4, further including associating a second event location with the media stream and publishing the media stream to a second participant zone covering an area extending from the second event location.

9. The method of claim 1, further including setting access permissions through a contact list.

10. The method of claim 9, including pooling contact lists of users to form the contact list of the media event.

11. The method of claim 9, including accessing contact list from a social network.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the contacts of the contact list with known location information are sorted according to proximity to the event location.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the contact list is a list of contacts within a set distance from a user.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the contact list is sorted according to distance from the user.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the location of a contact is obtained from a social network Application Programming Interface (API).

16. The method of claim 1, including identifying contacts in media of the media stream.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein facial recognition is used to identify contacts.

18. The method of claim 4, including the step sending a media stream to an outlet.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the outlet is digital signage.

20. The method of claim 18, including confirming payment prior to allowing a user to contribute to a media stream.