SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

摘要

An improved social media or messaging platform can be provided, retaining in large measure both the immediacy and engagement of video conferencing, while not sacrificing benefits more characteristic of email and similar messaging platforms, such as asynchronous scheduling, bandwidth efficiency, and various administrative record-keeping benefits. Audio data and associated gesture data (for example, panning and zooming) is recorded by users in associating with image data, and shared with other users in a conversational thread, permitting a video-like experience without associated bandwidth overhead.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of hosting a messaging service on a server for use by users via client devices in communication with the server, the client devices executing an application for originating and sharing amongst users messages comprising image data, audio data, and gesture data, the server comprising hardware components adapted for performing steps of:
receiving audio data and gesture data relating to a message from an originating client device at the server; storing the audio data and gesture data at the server in association with the image data to which the audio data and gesture data relates; and distributing the stored audio data and gesture data to a recipient client device from the server; wherein the received audio data and gesture data are recorded at the originating client device in association with the image data, and distributed to the recipient client device for reproduction by the recipient client device in association with the image data.