Systems and methods for media streaming and presentation in an application environment

• US 9,237,177 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2014
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Flip Phone Games, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Gosub 60, Inc.
• Inventors: Hartwell, Joshua, Bolten, Paul G., Thompson, Sean
• Primary Examiner(s): DAILEY, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US14/326,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20150281307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• 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 21/45 Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• 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 21/812 : involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

A method for displaying data is disclosed. The method may include displaying an application on a mobile electronic communication device. The method may further include contacting at least one media server configured to store media data and receiving, at the mobile electronic communication device, first available media data from the at least one media server. The method may further include displaying the received available media data in a media stream within the application. The method may also include contacting, after a predetermined amount of time, the at least one media server and receiving, in response to the contacting, at the mobile electronic communication device, second available media data from the at least one media server. The method may further include displaying the second available media data in the media stream.

Claims

1. A method for displaying data, the method comprising:

displaying an application on a mobile electronic communication device;

contacting at least one media server configured to store media data;

receiving, at the mobile electronic communication device, first available media data from the at least one media server;

displaying the received first available media data in a media stream within the application;

contacting, after a predetermined amount of time, the at least one media server;

receiving, at the mobile electronic communication device, second available media data from the at least one media server in response to the contacting after the predetermined amount of time;

receiving the second available media data from a plurality of media servers at a particular rate;

detecting a stream velocity of the second available media data received from each server in the plurality of servers;

adjusting the rate at which the second available media data is received from each server in the plurality of servers based on differences between the stream velocities of each server in the plurality of servers and

displaying the second available media data in the media stream.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sorting the received second available media data based on at least one of chronology, popularity, relevance, or financial value; and

buffering the sorting of the received second available media data based on the slowest stream velocity.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the media stream is positioned at a side of the application data within the application while allowing simultaneous access to the application data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing user data in a user profile;

analyzing at least one of the first available media data and the second available media data in relation to the stored user data; and

selecting particular media data to display based on the user data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user data comprises at least one of geographic location, age, gender, type of games played, type of mobile electronic communication device, length of application use, in-app purchasing habits, win-loss ratio, time of day, day of the week, local weather, application personalization choices, and posts that have been expanded from the media stream.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing user selections related to at least one social media network to display in the media stream; and

modifying the displayed media stream in accordance with the user selections.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying at least one interactive message associated with an application status;

prompting a user to post the application status to at least one social media network;

receiving an indication to post the application status to the at least one social media network; and

posting the application status to the at least one social media network.

3. A method for displaying data, the method comprising:

displaying a device environment on a mobile electronic communication device;

contacting at least one media server configured to store media data;

receiving, at the mobile electronic communication device, first available media data from the at least one media server;

displaying the received first available media data in a media stream within the device environment;

contacting, after a predetermined amount of time, the at least one media server;

receiving, at the mobile electronic communication device, second available media data from the at least one media server in response to the contacting after the predetermined amount of time;

receiving the second available media data from a plurality of media servers at a particular rate;

detecting a stream velocity of the second available media data received from each server in the plurality of servers;

adjusting the rate at which the second available media data is received from each server in the plurality of servers based on differences between the stream velocities of each server in the plurality of servers; and

displaying the second available media data in the media stream.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

sorting the received second available media data based on at least one of chronology, popularity, relevance, or financial value; and

buffering the sorting of the second available media data to account for differences in stream velocity amongst the plurality of media servers.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein the media stream is positioned at a side of the device environment data within the device environment while allowing simultaneous access to the device environment data.

11. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

storing user data in a user profile;

analyzing at least one of the first available media data and the second available media data in relation to the stored user data; and

selecting particular media data to display based on the user data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the user data comprises at least one of geographic location, age, gender, type of games played, type of mobile electronic communication device, length of application use, in-app purchasing habits, win-loss ratio, time of day, day of the week, local weather, application personalization choices, and posts that have been expanded from the media stream.

13. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

storing user selections related to at least one social media network to display in the media stream; and

modifying the displayed media stream in accordance with the user selections.

14. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

displaying at least one interactive message associated with an application status;

prompting a user to post the application status to at least one social media network;

receiving an indication to post the application status to the at least one social media network; and

posting the application status to the at least one social media network.