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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2019
Applicant:

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Harold Bernstein, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kayvon B. Beykpour, San Francisco, CA (US);

Geraint John Davies, Bodorgan, GB;

Tyler Jan Hansen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Nils Victor Rocine, San Francisco, CA (US);

Aaron William Wasserman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/432 (2011.01); H04N 21/43 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/42653 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/4307 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4325 (2013.01); H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); H04N 21/6131 (2013.01); H04N 21/6181 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods provide live broadcasts with real-time feedback from viewers using mobile computing devices. An example method includes providing a live feed broadcast from a source mobile device to a plurality of viewing devices, receiving, during the live feed broadcast, an engagement from one of the plurality of viewing devices, and associating the engagement with a particular time in the live feed broadcast. The method also includes providing an indication of the engagement to the source mobile device, wherein the source mobile device displays a graphic representation of the engagement during the live feed broadcast and adding the indication of the engagement to the live feed so that a graphic representation is displayed during the live feed at the particular time to users of the plurality of viewing devices. The viewing user may each have a graph relationship with a user of the source mobile device.


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