Social Network Co-Broadcasting Stream Merging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional content broadcasting technologies restrict co-broadcasting from different geographic locations and lack effective distribution methods, failing to identify and engage a target user audience for live content streams.
Innovation Solution
A social networking system that allows users to invite co-broadcasters from different locations to join a live content stream, merging their streams into a single broadcast and notifying followers through layered avatars, while ensuring access is restricted to users who follow the co-broadcasters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional content broadcasting is used, then a single broadcaster can transmit content, but co-broadcasting from different geographic locations is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple independent live content streams from different broadcasters into a single unified broadcast stream. The social networking system receives content from multiple sources, combines them temporally and spatially, and delivers the merged stream to viewers, enabling co-broadcasting without requiring complex coordinated transmission infrastructure at each broadcaster's location.
Solution Approach 2:
The social networking system acts as an intermediary platform between multiple broadcasters and viewers. It receives content streams from various broadcasters, manages the merging process, handles user authentication and access control, and distributes the combined stream to the audience, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling versatile co-broadcasting.
2Productivity
If traditional broadcasting distribution is used, then content can be transmitted, but effective distribution methods to identify and engage target user audience are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The system leverages social networking data and user interaction patterns as feedback mechanisms to identify target audiences. By analyzing follower relationships, engagement history, and content preferences stored in the social networking system, the platform can automatically identify and notify users who are most likely to be interested in specific co-broadcast content, thereby improving audience engagement efficiency without losing target audience identification.
Solution Approach 2:
The social networking system performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying potential target audiences based on existing social graphs and user profiles before the co-broadcast begins. Notification lists are prepared in advance using follower relationships and engagement data, allowing the system to proactively reach out to relevant users rather than relying on passive content distribution.
3Adaptability or versatility
If merged live content stream is created, then multiple broadcasters can co-broadcast, but access control to ensure only users who follow co-broadcasters can access is complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent leverages the existing universal follower system of the social networking platform as the access control mechanism. The same follower relationships that enable content distribution are reused for access control purposes. Users who follow any of the co-broadcasters are automatically granted access to the merged stream, eliminating the need for separate access control systems while maintaining flexible and intuitive access management.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine that a broadcaster of a first live content stream has identified at least one user of a social networking system to join as co-broadcaster. A merged live content stream is published through the social networking system, the merged live content stream including the first live content stream of the broadcaster and a second live content stream associated with the at least one identified user. At least one notification is sent to one or more other users of the social networking system. The notification informs the one or more other users about the merged live content stream.