System and method for group participation in a digital media presentation

摘要

System and method for group participation in a digital media presentation are provided that are capable of selecting digital media items for inclusion in the presentation from multiple participant's accounts thereby creating a group presentation in which digital media items of each participant are included in the presentation. Selections of digital media items for inclusion in the presentation can be made directly at the direction of the participations or inferentially according to a selection algorithm. Selections can be made during the presentation thereby allowing a participant to join the presentation after it has started and contribute digital media items to the presentation while it is running.

主权项

1. A method for group participation in a digital media presentation, the method comprising:
at one or more server computing devices comprising one or more processors and memory storing instructions executed by the one or more processors to perform the method, performing operations of: receiving a network request from a media presentation system to establish a media presentation session for a digital media presentation to be presented at the media presentation system; and while the media presentation session is established, performing the operations of:
receiving a first network request from a personal computing device of a first user to participate in the digital media presentation;receiving a second network request from a personal computing device of a second user that is not the first user, to participate in the digital media presentation;selecting one or more first digital media items from a plurality of digital media items associated with an account of the first user, for inclusion in the digital media presentation;wherein selecting the one or more first digital media items comprises inferentially selecting the one or more first digital media items based on inferential selection metadata associated with the one or more first digital media items;selecting one or more second digital media items from a plurality of digital media items associated with an account of the second user, for inclusion in the digital media presentation;sending, via the media presentation session, network location information for each of the selected one or more first digital media items to the media presentation system;sending, via the media presentation session, network location information for each of the selected one or more second digital media items associated with the account of the second user to the media presentation system; andwherein the media presentation system is not one of the personal computing devices of the first user or the second user.