Video broadcast invitations based on gesture

• US 9,654,534 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2015
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Woods, Nicholas, Cheng, Jessica, Chokshi, Sandip, Ramanarayanan, Ganesh, Streich, Megan, Nguyen, Bill, Mallet, Vincent
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tuan S
• Application Number:
  US14/825,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20150350691A1
• Time in Patent Office: 642 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 gesture indication generated by a mobile device in response to a user gesture on a user interface of the mobile device with respect to a video currently being recorded by the mobile device is received. Availability notifications are then issued to the one or more potential visitors in the listing. A visit request is received from one of the one or more potential visitors, and then a host invitation is issued to the mobile device. In response to an indication that the user device has permitted the potential visitor corresponding to the visit request to view the video currently being recorded as a live video broadcast, the video currently being recorded is broadcast to the potential visitor corresponding to the visit request.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a server, a gesture indication from a mobile device, the gesture indication having been generated by the mobile device in response to a user gesture on a user interface of the mobile device with respect to a video currently being recorded by the mobile device;

accessing a social network service to obtain a listing of one or more potential visitors to view the video;

accessing historical data describing previous actions initiated by the one or more potential visitors, the historical data used to generate user preference data corresponding to the one or more potential visitors, the historical data describing previous media content received by the potential visitors;

issuing availability notifications to a subset of the one or more potential visitors in the listing, the subset determined based on the user preference data;

receiving a visit request from one of the one or more notified potential visitors;

issuing a host invitation to the mobile device, the host indication triggering the display of a notification in the user interface of the mobile device allowing a user of the user device to permit the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request to view the video currently being recorded as a live video broadcast; and

in response to an indication that the user device has permitted the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request to view the video currently being recorded as a live video broadcast, causing the broadcasting of the video currently being recorded to the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving from the one of the one or more notified potential visitors a communication relating to registration of a mobile device corresponding to the one of the one or more notified potential visitors with a service providing the live video broadcast, the communication comprising at least a portion of the user preference data.

3. The method of claim 1, the user preference data comprising a preference by a notified potential visitor for live video broadcasts from the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, the user preference data comprising a preference by a notified potential visitor for a type of video corresponding to the video currently being recorded.

5. A server comprising:

a processor;

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

receive, at a server, a gesture indication from a mobile device, the gesture indication having been generated by the mobile device in response to a user gesture on a user interface of the mobile device with respect to a video currently being recorded by the mobile device;

access a social network service to obtain a listing of one or more potential visitors to view the video;

access historical data describing previous actions initiated by the one or more potential visitors, the historical data used to generate user preference data corresponding to the one or more potential visitors, the historical data describing previous media content received by the potential visitors;

issue availability notifications to a subset of the one or more potential visitors in the listing, the subset determined based on the user preference data;

receive a visit request from one of the one or more notified potential visitors;

issue a host invitation to the mobile device, the host indication triggering the display of a notification in the user interface of the mobile device allowing a user of the user device to permit the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request to view the video currently being recorded as a live video broadcast; and

in response to an indication that the user device has permitted the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request to view the video currently being recorded as a live video broadcast, cause the broadcasting of the video currently being recorded to the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request.

6. The server of claim 5, wherein the instructions, when executed on by the processor, further cause the processor to:

receive from the one of the one or more notified potential visitors a communication relating to registration of a mobile device corresponding to the one of the one or more notified potential visitors with a service providing the live video broadcast, the communication comprising at least a portion of the user preference data.

7. The server of claim 5, the user preference data comprising a preference by a notified potential visitor for live video broadcasts from the mobile device.

8. The server of claim 5, the user preference data comprising a preference by a notified potential visitor for a type of video corresponding to the video currently being recorded.

9. 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:

receiving, at a server, a gesture indication from a mobile device, the gesture indication having been generated by the mobile device in response to a user gesture on a user interface of the mobile device with respect to a video currently being recorded by the mobile device;

accessing a social network service to obtain a listing of one or more potential visitors to view the video;

accessing historical data describing previous actions initiated by the one or more potential visitors, the historical data used to generate user preference data corresponding to the one or more potential visitors, the historical data describing previous media content received by the potential visitors;

issuing availability notifications to a subset of the one or more potential visitors in the listing, the subset determined based on the user preference data;

receiving a visit request from one of the one or more notified potential visitors;

issuing a host invitation to the mobile device, the host indication triggering the display of a notification in the user interface of the mobile device allowing a user of the user device to permit the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request to view the video currently being recorded as a live video broadcast; and

in response to an indication that the user device has permitted the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request to view the video currently being recorded as a live video broadcast, causing the broadcasting of the video currently being recorded to the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving from the one of the one or more notified potential visitors a communication relating to registration of a mobile device corresponding to the one of the one or more notified potential visitors with a service providing the live video broadcast, the communication comprising at least a portion of the user preference data.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, the user preference data comprising a preference by a notified potential visitor for live video broadcasts from the mobile device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, the user preference data comprising a preference by a notified potential visitor for a type of video corresponding to the video currently being recorded.