US 12,231,700 B2
Method and server for handling streaming data
YungChi Hsu, Taipei (TW); Ming-Che Cheng, Taipei (TW); and Shao Yuan Wu, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to 17LIVE JAPAN INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by 17LIVE Japan Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/972,983.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-028682 (JP), filed on Feb. 25, 2022; and application No. 2022-081338 (JP), filed on May 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0276077 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/2187 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving a selection of a live streaming by a user of a user terminal, the live streaming having a first mode and a second mode, the user being invisible in the first mode to a distributor of the live streaming and other users who are viewing the live streaming, the user being visible in the second mode to the distributor of the live streaming and the other users who are viewing the live streaming;
starting, upon receipt of the selection of the live streaming by the user of the user terminal, viewing of the live streaming in the first mode without receiving any input from the user to determine whether to start the live streaming either in the first mode or in the second mode;
accepting a first predetermined user input during viewing of the live streaming in the first mode; and
in response to acceptance of the first predetermined user input, enabling viewing of the live streaming in the second mode,
wherein an UI object is displayed in the first mode to indicate that the user is watching the live streaming in the first mode.