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 and maintaining a set of media parties, each media party comprising a respective queue of media items and a respective group of participants able to participate with instances of a user interface provided at least in part by the network service; for each of the media parties, storing a respective history of media items played, 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 wherein each user interface comprises a search element, wherein when a user inputs a search in the search element of a first user interface corresponding to the given media party, a new media item is selected from a corresponding media search result provided by a social search engine, and the new media item is added to the media queue of the given media party, the social search engine allowing social sharing of searches among users of the social search engine, wherein the social search engine shares the search inputted by the user with other users of the social search engine.