US 12,192,581 B2
Online media broadcast system and method
Francois-Louis Mertens, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to TECHNO MIAM LLC, Studio City, CA (US)
Filed by Francois-Louis Mertens, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/373,567.
Application 17/373,567 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/591,497, filed on Oct. 2, 2019, granted, now 11,064,232.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038780 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4622 (2013.01) [H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium, having stored thereon, instructions that when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations for broadcasting media in a broadcasting system comprising a media stream combiner configured with at least one server, the operations comprising:
(A) providing at a first client device associated with a first user, a first graphical user interface including a first primary video player and at least one live stream video player including a video viewing pane with a video viewing pane size defined by a video viewing pane perimeter and one or more live stream video viewing pane selectable areas within the video viewing pane perimeter, each of the one or more live stream video viewing pane selectable areas including a corresponding selectable area size that is less than the video viewing pane size and that is selectable as an individual user interface element;
(B) providing at a second client device associated with a second user, a second graphical user interface including a second primary video player including a second primary video player pane and at least one additional video player pane overlaid the second primary video player pane;
(C) providing to a first at least one live stream video player a first live stream video;
(D) by the broadcasting system, receiving an indication of a selection of a first one or more live stream video player selectable area of the first at least one live stream video player;
(E) by the broadcasting system, when the indication of the selection of the first one or more live stream video player selectable area of the first at least one live stream video player is received:
(F) identifying the first live stream video; and
(G) providing at a first at least one additional video player pane, the first live stream video identified in (F).