USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAY OF STILL IMAGES CORRESPONDING TO LIVE VIDEO BROADCASTS

• US 20150346927A1
• Filed: 08/13/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Nguyen, Bill, Mallet, Vincent, Woods, Nicholas, Cheng, Jessica, Chokshi, Sandip, Ramanarayanan, Ganesh, Streich, Megan
• Application Number:
  US14/825,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20150346927A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/19 at layers above the network layer network arrangements for networked applications for scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1006 with static server selection, e.g. the same server being selected for a specific client
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/101 based on network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1012 based on compliance of requirements or conditions with available server resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1019 Random or heuristic server selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 : Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 : Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23103 : using load balancing strategies, e.g. by placing or distributing content on different disks, different memories or different servers storage management G06F3/0604; allocation of resources considering the load in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/505; techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system G06F9/5083; access to distributed or replicated servers, e.g. load balancing, in data networks H04L67/1001
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2402 : Monitoring of the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. bandwidth available traffic monitoring in data switching networks H04L43/00; monitoring data switching networks utilization H04L43/0876
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 : Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 : for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 : for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• 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 21/488 : Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71

Abstract

In an example embodiment, a plurality of still images are displayed in a user interface of a first mobile device, each still image corresponding to a different live video broadcast currently being broadcast by a plurality of mobile devices other than the first mobile device, the still image corresponding to each different live video broadcast being a single frame of a previously recorded portion of the corresponding live video broadcast. A live video broadcast corresponding to a selected one of the plurality of still images is broadcast from a second mobile device to the first mobile device. Then at least some of the plurality of still images are removed and space made available by the removing is used to display the live video broadcast responding to the selected one of the plurality of still images in a larger area than the selected one of the still images.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying, in a user interface of a first mobile device, a plurality of still images, each still image corresponding to a different live video broadcast currently being broadcast by a plurality of mobile devices other than the first mobile device, the still image corresponding to each different live video broadcast being a single frame of a previously recorded portion of the corresponding live video broad cast;

receiving, via the user interface of first mobile device, a selection of one of the plurality of still images;

causing the broadcasting of a live video broadcast corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of still images from a second mobile device to the first mobile device; and

removing at least some of the plurality of still images from the user interface and utilizing space in the user interface made available by the removing to display the live video broadcast responding to the selected one of the plurality of still images in a larger area of the user interface than the selected one of the still images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of still images correspond only to broadcasts from users connected to a user of the first mobile device in a social network service.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the removing includes removing all still images from the user interface.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon receiving an indication that a user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast, removing the live video broadcast from the user interface and redisplaying the plurality of still images.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the indication that the user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast is an indication that a button indicating that a visit is complete in the user interface has been selected.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the indication that the user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast is generated without explicit action by the user of the first mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface further contains indications of relationships between the user of the first mobile device and other users in the social network service.

8. A first mobile device comprising:

a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the system to;

display, in a user interface of the first mobile device, a plurality of still images, each still image corresponding to a different live video broadcast currently being broadcast by a plurality of mobile devices other than the first mobile device, the still image corresponding to each different live video broadcast being a single frame of a previously recorded portion of the corresponding live video broadcast;

receive, via the user interface of the first mobile device, a selection of one of the plurality of still images;

cause the broadcasting of a live video broadcast corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of still images from a second mobile device to the first mobile device; and

remove at least some of the plurality of still images from the user interface and utilizing space in the user interface made available by the removing to display the live video broadcast responding to the selected one of the plurality of still images in a larger area of the user interface than the selected one of the still images.

9. The first mobile device of claim 8, wherein the plurality of still images correspond only to broadcasts from users connected to a user of the first mobile device in a social network service.

10. The first mobile device of claim 8, wherein the removing includes removing all still images from the user interface.

11. The first mobile device of claim 8, wherein the instructions, when executed on by the processor, further cause the processor to:

upon receiving an indication that a user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast, remove the live video broadcast from the user interface and redisplaying the plurality of still images.

12. The first mobile device of claim 11, wherein the indication that the user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast is an indication that a button indicating that a visit is complete in the user interface has been selected.

13. The first mobile device of claim 11, wherein the indication that the user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast is generated without explicit action by the user of the first mobile device.

14. The first mobile device of claim 8, wherein the user interface further contains indications of relationships between the user of the first mobile device and other users in the social network service.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

displaying, in a user interface of a first mobile device, a plurality of still images, each still image corresponding to a different live video broadcast currently being broadcast by a plurality of mobile devices other than the first mobile device, the still image corresponding to each different live video broadcast being a single frame of a previously recorded portion of the corresponding live video broadcast;

receiving, via the user interface of the first mobile device, a selection of one of the plurality of still images;

causing the broadcasting of a live video broadcast corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of still images from a second mobile device to the first mobile device; and

removing at least some of the plurality of still images from the user interface and utilizing space in the user interface made available by the removing to display the live video broadcast responding to the selected one of the plurality of still images in a larger area of the user interface than the selected one of the still images.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the plurality of still images correspond only to broadcasts from users connected to a user of the first mobile device in a social network service.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the removing includes removing all still images from the user interface.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

upon receiving an indication that a user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast, removing the live video broadcast from the user interface and redisplaying the plurality of still images.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the indication that the user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast is an indication that a button indicating that a visit is complete in the user interface has been selected.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the indication that the user of the first mobile device wishes to terminate viewing of the live video broadcast is generated without explicit action by the user of the first mobile device.