COLLABORATIVE MEDIA SHARING

摘要

A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.

主权项

1. A method performed by one or more computers to implement a network service, the method of the network service comprising:
storing, maintaining, and serving a media parties, each media party comprising a respective queue of media items and a respective group of participant devices able to participate with instances of a user interface provided at least in part by the network service and displayed on the participant devices; for each of the media parties, storing a respective history of media items synchronously played to a respective group of participant devices, each media party having a respective history of media items played therefor, each history of media items continuing to be stored after the corresponding media items indicated therein have been played from the corresponding queues; and receiving a request from a client device specifying a media party, and in response asynchronously playing back the history of media items played to only the client device.