Interactive Digital Content Sharing Among Users

• US 20140258405A1
• Filed: 03/05/2014
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sean Perkin
• Original Assignee: Sean Perkin
• Inventors: Perkin, Sean
• Application Number:
  US14/197,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258405A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• 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 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes

Abstract

Systems and techniques for sharing content associated with a common characteristic are described. A describe technique includes establishing communication among mobile devices sharing a common characteristic, each mobile device associated with a respective user, receiving from a first mobile device sharing the common characteristic (i) a video segment captured by the first mobile device, and (ii) a request to make the captured video segment available for viewing by other mobile devices with which communication has been established; receiving from a second mobile device sharing the common characteristic a request to view the captured video segment received from the first mobile device; and transmitting to the second mobile device the captured video segment received from the first mobile device.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more processes executing on a computer system, the method comprising:

establishing communication with a plurality of mobile devices sharing a common characteristic, each mobile device associated with a respective user;

receiving from a first mobile device sharing the common characteristic (i) a video segment captured by the first mobile device and (ii) a request to make the captured video segment available for viewing by other mobile devices with which communication has been established;

receiving from a second mobile device sharing the common characteristic a request to view the captured video segment received from the first mobile device; and

transmitting to the second mobile device the captured video segment received from the first mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the common characteristic shared by the plurality of mobile devices comprises a common geographic region.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the common geographic region comprises an event venue.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the common characteristic shared by the plurality of mobile devices comprises participation in a predetermined activity.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined activity comprises a live performance.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined activity comprises engaging in an online activity relating to a common theme.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the online activity relating to the common theme comprises one or more of online searching, sending email messages, sending text message, or engaging in social network activities.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request from the second mobile device and transmitting the captured video segment to the second mobile device occurs substantially in real time.

9. The method of claim 1, comprising:

providing advertisements to the plurality of mobile devices.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the common characteristic shared by the plurality of mobile devices comprises a common event, the method further comprising providing data to coordinate display of content on at least a portion of the mobile devices during the common event.

11. A method performed by one or more processes executing on a mobile device, the method comprising:

establishing communication with a computer system configured to facilitate sharing of video segments among a plurality of mobile devices having a common characteristic;

using, when in a first user mode, a video capture function of the mobile device to capture a video segment and transmit the captured video segment to the computer system for real time, or near real time, viewing by other mobile devices sharing the common characteristic; and

requesting, when in a second user mode, from the computer system to view in real time, or near real time, a video segment captured by another mobile device sharing the common characteristic.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the common characteristic shared by the plurality of mobile devices comprises a common geographic region, a predetermined activity, or a combination there of.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the common geographic region comprises an event venue.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the predetermined activity comprises a live performance.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the predetermined activity comprises engaging in an online activity relating to a common theme.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the online activity relating to the common theme comprises one or more of online searching, sending email messages, sending text message, or engaging in social network activities.

17. The method of claim 11, comprising:

providing a user interface to switch among a plurality of different content streams associated with the common characteristic for display on a screen, each of the content streams being captured by different mobile devices having the common characteristic.

18. A system comprising:

a processor configured to execute computer program instructions; and

a computer storage medium encoded with computer program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising;

establishing communication with a plurality of mobile devices sharing a commonality, each mobile device associated with a respective user;

receiving from a first mobile device of the mobile devices (i) a captured content stream that is captured by the first mobile device and (ii) a request to make the captured content stream available for viewing by other mobile devices with which communication has been established;

receiving from a second mobile device of the mobile devices a request to view content associated with the commonality; and

transmitting to the second mobile device the captured content stream.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the commonality comprises a common geographic region, common event venue, common activity, or a combination thereof.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the operations comprise providing advertisements to the plurality of mobile devices.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the operations comprise obtaining information from the mobile devices to determine the commonality.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the commonality comprises a common event, and wherein the operations comprise providing data to coordinate display of content on at least a portion of the mobile devices during the common event.