US 12,120,362 B2
Live stream viewable while sending and receiving text in group and among groups
Ko Kikuchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Rakuten Group, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/921,841
Filed by Rakuten Group, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 26, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/021653
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/228388, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 30, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0244276 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/2187 (2013.01) [H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04N 21/2542 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delivery system, comprising:
a plurality of viewer terminals to which live video is delivered, the plurality of viewer terminals each comprising one or more processors, and
a streamer terminal comprising one or more processors and used by a streamer that delivers the live video, wherein
at least one of the one or more processors included in the streamer terminal executes:
a delivery-side reception process of receiving, from the viewer terminal, text posted from a viewer using the viewer terminal;
a delivery-side display process of making, when the text is received, the text appear in a screen;
a determination process of determining whether the streamer pays attention to the text, until the text exits from within the screen; and
an execution process of executing a predetermined attention process on text-of-attention that the streamer is determined to pay attention to,
the viewer terminals are classified into any one of a plurality of groups,
at least one of the one or more processors included in each viewer terminal executes:
an acceptance process of accepting text posted from a viewer using the each terminal;
a viewing-side transmission process of transmitting the accepted text to the streamer terminal and another viewing terminals belonging to a group into which the each terminal is classified;
a viewing-side reception process of receiving text transmitted from another viewer terminal belonging to the group into which the each terminal is classified; and
a viewing-side display process of making the received text appear in a screen,
in the attention process of the streamer terminal, the text-of-attention is transmitted to viewer terminals that are classified in a group other than the group into which the viewer terminal, from which the text-of-attention is transmitted, is classified, and
when the text-of-attention is received in each terminal of the viewer terminals, the received text-of-attention is made to appear in the screen.