US 12,477,166 B2
Content distribution system, content distribution method, and computer program
Nobuo Kawakami, Tokyo (JP); Shinnosuke Iwaki, Tokyo (JP); Takashi Kojima, Tokyo (JP); Toshihiro Shimizu, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroaki Saito, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to DWANGO CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by DWANGO Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/942,514.
Application 17/942,514 is a continuation of application No. 17/059,314, granted, now 11,477,507, previously published as PCT/JP2019/029106, filed on Jul. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-150864 (JP), filed on Jul. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007331 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2743 (2011.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/2743 (2013.01) [G06F 13/00 (2013.01); G06V 40/103 (2022.01); G06V 40/23 (2022.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
store a first avatar information and a first virtual space of a first distributor broadcasting to a first at least one viewer and a second avatar information of a second distributor broadcasting from a second virtual space to a second at least one viewer;
accept, by the first distributor, a request from the second distributor for a common distribution;
distribute common distribution data to the first at least one viewer once the request is accepted;
receive, from one or more viewer terminals, a virtual item (1) which indicates support, compliment, and/or praise of content rendered based on the common distribution data and (2) which comprises item data and item motion information so that the virtual item is rendered and/or renderable within the first virtual space, and
resolving at least one interaction between the virtual item located at a first position within the virtual space and a further object located at a second position within the virtual space different from the first position, based on at least one of the item data and the item motion information,
wherein the common distribution data comprises the first avatar information, the first virtual space, the second avatar information, and the item motion information, and
wherein the first and second distributors are distinct from the first and second at least one viewers.