SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATION FOR A MEDIA CONTENT PROVIDING PLATFORM
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Abstract
A social media application for a media content providing platform for interaction and communication between and among audience members concerning the media content. The social media application includes a graphical user interface having a crowd representation section for providing a virtual crowd experience through visual representations of audience members attending the event. Accordingly, the social media application permits a user to review profile information associated with other audience members and communicate with audience members concerning the media content being displayed, in real-time. The social media application permits the media content provider to communicate with audience members, and to obtain information about the audience members.
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65 Claims
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43. A system for providing a computer simulation of a live event, the system comprising:
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one or more computing devices; one or more storage devices having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by the one or more computing devices, to cause the system at least to; receive a request from a content provider to provide a client device with access to the computer simulation; transmit, in response to the request, an application that performs at least a portion of the computer simulation on the client device, the application comprising instructions that, when executed, forms visual representations of a simulated crowd attending the live event; maintain a plurality of profiles representative of virtual attendees connected by a network to the computer simulation of the live event; select a first subset of the plurality of profiles based at least in part on random selection from the plurality of profiles; cause the application to display, on the client device, a first visual representation of the simulated crowd, wherein the first visual representation is generated by the application and comprises a first plurality of audience icons corresponding to the first subset and a first graphical indicia provided by the content provider, the first graphical indicia based at least in part on profiles in the first subset; and cause the application to display, in response to a selection by a user of the client device, a second visual representation of the simulated crowd, wherein the second visual representation is generated by the application and comprises a second plurality of audience icons corresponding to a second subset of the plurality of profiles, the second subset based at least in part on profiles in the second subset matching a profile characteristic, the second visual representation further comprising a second graphical indicia provided by the content provider, the second graphical indicia based at least in part on profiles of the second subset. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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52. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices at least to:
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transmit instructions corresponding to an application for providing a simulation of a virtual crowd attending a live event; maintain a plurality of profiles representative of virtual attendees connected by a network to the simulation of the virtual crowd attending a life event; select a first subset of the plurality of profiles based at least in part on a random selection of the plurality of profiles; cause the application to display, on a client device, a first visual representation of the virtual crowd, wherein the first visual representation is generated by the application and comprises a first plurality of audience icons corresponding to the first subset and a first graphical indicia provided by a content provider, the first graphical indicia based at least in part on profiles in the first subset; and cause the application to display, in response to a selection by a user of the client device, a second visual representation of the virtual crowd, wherein the second visual representation is generated by the application and comprises a second plurality of audience icons corresponding to a second subset of the plurality of profiles, the second subset based at least in part on profiles in the second subset matching a profile characteristic, the second visual representation further comprising a second graphical indicia provided by the content provider, the second graphical indicia based at least in part on profiles of the second subset. - View Dependent Claims (53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61)
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62. A computer-implemented method for providing a computer simulation of a live event, the method comprising:
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receiving a request from a content provider to provide a client device with access to the computer simulation; transmitting, in response to the request, an application that performs at least a portion of the computer simulation on the client device, the application comprising instructions that, when executed, forms visual representations of a simulated crowd attending the live event; storing a plurality of profiles representative of virtual attendees connected by a network to the computer simulation of the live event; selecting a first subset of the plurality of profiles based at least in part on random selection from the plurality of profiles; causing the application to display, on the client device, a first visual representation of the simulated crowd, wherein the first visual representation is generated by the application and comprises a first plurality of audience icons corresponding to the first subset and a first graphical indicia provided by the content provider, the first graphical indicia based at least in part on profiles in the first subset; and causing the application to display, in response to a selection by a user of the client device, a second visual representation of the simulated crowd, wherein the second visual representation is generated by the application and comprises a second plurality of audience icons corresponding to a second subset of the plurality of profiles, the second subset based at least in part on a profile characteristic, the second visual representation further comprising a second graphical indicia provided by the content provider, the second graphical indicia based at least in part on profiles of the second subset. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65)
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