US 12,218,895 B2
Messaging for event live-stream
Justin Lewis, Marina del Rey, CA (US); and Kevin Greene, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/883,549.
Application 17/883,549 is a continuation of application No. 17/027,694, filed on Sep. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,411,901.
Application 17/027,694 is a continuation of application No. 14/541,030, filed on Nov. 13, 2014, granted, now 10,785,174, issued on Sep. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/905,137, filed on Nov. 15, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0385604 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 51/046 (2022.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); H04L 41/50 (2022.01); H04L 41/5041 (2022.01); H04L 51/04 (2022.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04L 51/214 (2022.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.01); H04L 51/56 (2022.01); H04L 65/401 (2022.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01)
CPC H04L 51/046 (2013.01) [A63F 13/87 (2014.09); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); H04L 41/5041 (2013.01); H04L 41/5093 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04L 51/214 (2022.05); H04L 51/52 (2022.05); H04L 51/56 (2022.05); H04L 65/4015 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.05); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); A63F 2300/51 (2013.01); A63F 2300/572 (2013.01); A63F 2300/577 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a processing device, one or more inputs of one or more participants of a video game for a set of message presentation configurations of messages that relate to a stream of the video game provided by an event platform, the one or more inputs of the one or more participants comprising a request to change organization of messages to segregate participant messages of the one or more participants of the video game from a plurality of viewer messages entered by a plurality of viewers of the video game;
presenting, by the processing device, a messaging user interface with the stream of the video game provided by the event platform, wherein:
each of the one or more participants participate in the video game via an event application on a respective participant device connected to the event platform via a network,
the plurality of viewer messages are communicated to each of the one or more participants,
the stream of the video game is presented on a screen of a participant device of a participant of the one or more participants, and
the stream of the video game is provided to each viewer of the plurality of viewers for playback by a media player on a respective viewer device connected to the event platform via the network; and
presenting, within the messaging user interface on the screen of the participant device of the participant, the participant messages of the one or more participants of the video game and the plurality of viewer messages of the plurality of viewers while concurrently presenting the stream of the video game on the screen of the participant device of the participant,
wherein the viewer messages are presented concurrently with the participant messages in the messaging user interface on the screen of the participant device of the participant based on the one or more inputs of the one or more participants for the set of message presentation configurations.