1269 results about "Live streaming" patented technology

A peer-to-peer platform makes use of a streaming agent running at each peer. The streaming agent causes a peer to receive chunks of content from different neighboring peers, store some of the chunks in a local cache, and distribute those cached chunks to neighboring peers. Delivering next generation broadcasts (e.g., as streams of live audio and digital media) of any size utilizing the Internet is achieved. Users can view a live or prerecorded stream of a broadcast through an integrated media player, or can replay a broadcast through an integrated, intelligent archiving service. Use of the platform reduces bandwidth demands on live streaming and archiving services to a level where it is sustainable within a profitable business model to offer the services for at most a negligible fee.

Embodiments herein provide for an interactive event-scheduling platform (ESP), wherein locating activities via location data, notifying and alerting of them via real-time feeds and encouraging interaction through a full-service social media suite (SMS), enhanced with live streaming and “always-on” connectivity, could provide a fresh experience for users and hosts. A real-time data procuring system and method may solve problems with stale or incomplete activity data within a geographic area, bridge gaps between users and hosts by shortening time periods—from activity announcement, to discovery, to launch, to response—create buzz, maximize venue attendance, boost sales and ensure promotional success. Software crawlers may mine public Web sites for thorough activity data coverage. Stored activities, profiles and collected user interaction data may produce behavioral reports to increase ROMI. Security packages, installations and access controls may incite users to safely register themselves in the SMS to engage, interact and transact.

Integrated intelligent system adapted for any operating system and/or multi-OS computing environment seamlessly having sensory input/data acquisition cum recording server group and/or analytics server group enabling fail-safe integration and/or optimized utilization of various sensory inputs for various utility applications. Also disclosed as added advancements include intelligent method/system for cost-effective and efficient band adaptive transferring/recording sensory data from single or multiple data sources to network accessible storage devices, fail safe and self sufficient server group based method for sensory input recording and live streaming in a multi-server environment, intelligent and unified method of colour coherent object analysis, face detection in video images and the like, resource allocation for analytical processing involving multi channel environment, multi channel join-split mechanism adapted for low and/or variable bandwidth network link, enhanced multi-colour and/or mono-colour object tracking and also an intelligent automated traffic enforcement system.

A technique for digital video processing in a predictive manner is provided. In one embodiment, a method for processing digital video signals for live video applications comprises providing video data that comprise a plurality of frames, identifying a first frame and a second frame in the frame sequences, and processing the information of the first frame and the information of the second frame to determine a quantization step for the second frame. The step of processing the information of the first frame and the information of the second frame further comprises calculating a sigmaSAD value for the second frame, calculating a divisor value for the second frame, and calculating the quantization step for the second frame. In another embodiment, a system for processing digital video signals for live video applications comprises a memory unit within which a computer program is stored. The computer program instructs the system to process digital video in a predicative manner. In yet another embodiment, a system for processing digital video signals for live video applications comprises various subsystems that together process digital video in a predictive manner.

Methods and apparatuses for real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes dividing a stream of data representing the contiguous time based content of a program (e.g. a live video broadcast), into a plurality of distinct media files, and generating a playlist file having a plurality of tags and Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating an order of presentation of the plurality of distinct media files. The plurality of media files and the playlist file can be made available for transmission to a client device which can retrieve the media files using the playlist file.

Disclosed is a configuration for inserting an advertisement (ad) break into a live stream by a server. One example embodiment includes a system (and method) that receives index files periodically from a media encoder of a live stream. Each index file comprising pointers to current segments of the live stream encoded in real-time. The system sets a status of the live stream to a live status and determines whether an indicator for ad break is included in a received index file. If there is no indicator for the ad break in the received index file, the system transmits the received index file to one or more client computers. If there is an indicator for the ad break in the received index file, the system processes the received index file by removing segments following the indicator from the index file, updates the status of the live stream to an ad-break status, and transmits the processed index file to the one or more client computers.

The embodiment of the invention provides a microphone connecting method and device in live broadcast. The method comprises the following steps: a microphone connecting starting operation triggered by an anchor is responded, thereby enabling the anchor to autonomously control the microphone connecting interaction; based on the operation, an anchor client sends an applicable microphone connecting notice to N watching clients in a direct broadcasting room through a business server; the anchor client selects K watching users from M watching client sending microphone connecting applications and sends a microphone connecting direct broadcasting room identifier to the K watching clients; since most of the screened microphone connecting users are high-quality users, the microphone connecting interaction with the screened users can improve the user viscosity of the high-quality users; each watching client sends the microphone connecting live streaming and the microphone connecting direct broadcasting room identifier to a CDN server; the anchor client acquires the microphone connecting live streaming according to the microphone connecting direct broadcasting room identifier, and the microphone connecting live streaming is combined with the anchor live streaming; the use of the microphone connecting direct broadcasting room identifier can improve the speed of acquiring the microphone connecting live streaming by the anchor client, and the microphone connecting interaction can be accomplished more smoothly.

A transport mechanism for supporting the download of SVG over FLUTE or UDP. A RTP payload format is specified that enables live streaming and the streaming of rich media content. According to the present invention, rich media content is encapsulated in RTP packets based upon the payload format at the sender. With the present invention, an efficient framework is provided for satisfying several use cases or scenarios that involve rich media transmission.

A cellular phone having means for streaming and storing audio, video and photographic data at a remote host for the purposes of personal security and surveillance is disclosed. A cellular phone having a camera, a microphone, a panic trigger, and means for communicating with a wireless network may be used to capture and stream audio, video and photographic data to at least one host of the wireless network. The host may simultaneously provide live streaming audio, video and photographic data to anyone granted access to the host and remotely store the data for future access. Methods and systems for enabling a cellular phone to stream and remotely store captured audio, video and photographic data are also disclosed.

The invention provides a live streaming method, a live streaming device, a live streaming system and electronic equipment. The method comprises the steps of recognizing body features of a target object captured by a first client to compute the position of a controlled object under an AR scene and render a first video image; sending the first video image to a second client, and receiving a second video image sent by the second client, wherein the first client and the second client are connected via microphone connection; and sending the first video image and the second video image to corresponding audience clients after synthesizing. According to the method provided by the invention, the AR scene is added on the basis of an image frame capture by an anchor client through a camera to form the video image, an anchor can influence the position of the controlled object under the AR scene, the video image of microphone connection PK is sent to the audience clients, audiences can intuitivelysee the anchor playing an AR game, and interactive modes of live streaming are increased.

A method and apparatus for performing server-side splicing for live streaming media comprises receiving a request for media content from a client computer; accessing a media playlist comprising a plurality of universal resource identifiers (URIs) for each of a plurality of media content segments and consecutive sequence numbers defining an order in which the plurality of media content segments are to be viewed; accessing at least one additional content playlist for additional content to be spliced into the media content to be viewed; replacing a plurality of URIs of the media playlist with the URIs of the at least one additional content playlist to create a modified media playlist; and correcting a gap in sequence numbers that occurs in the modified media playlist when the number of URIs of the at least one additional content playlist is less than the plurality of URIs of the media playlist that are replaced.

The present invention provides a live streaming microphone connection control method and system. The method includes the following steps that: a microphone connection between a first live streaming end and a second live streaming end is built; live streams pushed by the first live streaming end and the second live streaming end are received respectively, the first live streaming end can carry out stream pulling to obtain the live streams of the second live streaming end, and the second live streaming end can carry out stream pulling to obtain the live streams of the fist live streaming end; and combined streams which are pushed by the first live streaming end and contain the live streams of the first live streaming end and the live streams of the second live streaming end, and viewers can carry out stream pulling to obtain the combined streams. With the live streaming microphone connection control method and system of the invention adopted, the problem of the quality deterioration of audio and video data transmission caused by inter-region and inter-operator phenomena between an anchor and a second microphone can be effectively solved, the synchronization of the audio and video data of the anchor and the audio and video data of the second microphone can be effectively ensured, and requirements for the downlink bandwidth of viewers who are watching live streams can be lower.

The present invention discloses a method for a video program playing in a network broadcast, belonging to the field of the network real-time live broadcast. The method comprises: a live broadcast terminal collects multi-path video stream of a live broadcast source and sends the multi-path video source and the video program identification corresponding to the live broadcast source to a server; a watching terminal sends data acquisition request to the server, and the data acquisition request carries the video program identification; and the watching terminal receives target video data sent by the server on the basis of the video program identification, and the target video data includes at least one-path video stream in the multi-path video stream; the server receives the switching request of the watching terminal and pushes at least one-path switched video stream to the watching terminal according to the switching request; and the watching terminal plays at least one-path switched video stream at a playing interface. Through the video switching of a watching terminal, the method and system for video program playing in network broadcast are able to increase the abundance of playing frames and improve the flexibility of switching the video source of the a video program.

An expanded function set for advertising campaigns and social network driven sales environments, unified across presenting sites and maintained at the presenting site. A banner ad can include a live streaming product presentation, such as an infomercial where users can expand the presentation, purchase the product, and share with networked friends. Video on demand and pay per view/download content can be provided via the integrated system and user experience.

The invention provides a streaming media play method, equipment and a system, wherein the method is that a play request to play a streaming media document of a user is received. An M3U8 (video format) document corresponding to the streaming media is downloaded from the server according to the play request, wherein the M3U8 document comprises uniform resource locator (URL) information containing media documents. The M3U8 document is analyzed and one or more pieces of (URL) information are obtained from the M3U8 document. The display equipment is required to play each media document corresponding to each piece of URL information based on acquired URL information. The streaming media play method, the equipment and the system can solve the problem that a non-Apple client terminal in the prior art can not play M3U8 documents, and thereby non-Apple intelligent mobiles can support Apple hyper text transport protocol (HTTP) Live Streaming.

An apparatus and a method are proposed which enable an improved control processing for live streaming distribution of tuner received content from a server to a client. By setting a URL to a channel list as a set of channels, and transmitting a content acquisition request from the client to the server, wherein the channel list URL is designated, to a server, the client can collectively obtain rights to control all content on the channels listed in the channel list. By continuously using an HTTP connection set on the basis of a channel list, the client can switch channels.

The invention discloses a synchronous translation-based news live streaming subtitle on-line production system. The synchronous translation-based news live streaming subtitle on-line production system includes a site acquisition unit and a streaming media server which are connected with each other; the streaming media server is connected with a speech processing unit and a subtitle production unit; the speech processing unit is connected with a text translation unit; the text translation unit is connected with the subtitle production unit; and the subtitle production unit is connected with a video playing client. According to the synchronous translation-based news live broadcast subtitle on-line production system of the invention, the audio and video information of a news site is acquired through the site acquisition unit; speech information is recognized through the speech processing unit; translation is carried out through the text translation unit; bilingual subtitles are produced through the subtitle production unit; the bilingual subtitles are embedded into live streaming video streams; subtitle streams, audio streams and the video streams are outputted synchronously; the subtitle streams, the audio streams and the video streams are played for a user through the video playing client; and therefore, news live streaming subtitle on-line production can be realized, the content of news can be translated in real time, audiences around the world can be facilitated to watch news and understand the content of the news immediately, the real-time performance of news live streaming can be improved, and the regionalism of the languages of the news live streaming can be broken.

Provided is a system and method for providing a real-time streaming service between terminals by using a wired/wireless communication channel. The system for providing a real-time streaming service between terminals includes a server terminal for parsing and separately storing header information of media data, decoding and outputting each of video and audio data included in the media data, and providing header information and the media data being currently reproduced in response to a sharing request for the media data; and a client terminal for generating a decoder by means of the header information received from the server terminal according to the sharing request for the media data being reproduced in the server terminal, decoding the media data provided from the server terminal by means of the generated decoder, and outputting the media data.

Various embodiments are described to address the need for an apparatus and method that improves upon known handoff techniques, such as Mobile IP and Fast Mobile IP, to improve the mobility experience of an end user. OSI layer 2-originated indications of a handoff being imminent (301, 501, 502), a link down for handoff (307, 509, 510), and a new link up after handoff (309, 511, 512) are introduced. These indications can be used by applications (such as real-time/streaming applications on the mobile (101)) to take suitable proactive measures prior to an actual handoff. Examples of such measures include the buffering of data to be used during the handoff interval in a way that improves the seamless mobility experience of the end user.