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Distributed control of media content item during webcast

US10063600B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Spotify AB · SE

Inventors

Brendan Marsh · Stockholm, SE
Felix Bruns · Stockholm, SE
Niklas Wahlen · Stockholm, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 28, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 8, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N21/6587
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for distributed control of media-playback components of a webcast. In an example, a webcast presenter's device can include a webcast compositing engine for creating a webcast from a variety of data sources, a media-playback engine for playing media content items, and a message processing engine for processing messages sent from audience members to the presenter. The message processing engine can obtain the messages and parse the messages for tokens indicative of a requested media content item. The message processing engine, having identified the requested media content item, can then cause the media-playback engine to play the requested content or add it to a queue.

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