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Audio selection from a multi-video environment

  • US 9,172,982 B1
  • Filed: 10/20/2011
  • Issued: 10/27/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method for audio selection comprising:

  • receiving, on a client machine, a plurality of simultaneously active videos wherein the plurality of simultaneously active videos is received in a single elementary video stream where a video streamer has aggregated a plurality of active videos into one elementary video stream to provide the single elementary video stream and where the client machine and the video streamer are different machines;

    displaying the plurality of simultaneously active videos on the client machine;

    playing a first audio wherein the first audio is associated with a first of the plurality of simultaneously active videos;

    requesting a second audio which is different from the first audio based on a selection;

    discontinuing playing of the first audio based on the selection; and

    playing of the second audio where the second audio is associated with a second of the plurality of simultaneously active videos and buffering the second audio before the playing the second audio begins.

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