Systems, apparatuses, methods and computer executable code for facilitating broadcast, publication and/or sharing of video from a user device to one or more other user devices in a social networking environment

摘要

The present invention includes systems, apparatuses, methods and computer executable code for facilitating broadcast, publication and/or sharing of video from a user device to one or more other user devices in a social networking environment. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there may be provided systems, apparatuses, methods and computer executable code for facilitating live broadcast of video captured by a user device image sensor to one or more other users associated with the broadcasting user within a social networking site (e.g. facebook).

主权项

1. A system for facilitating live broadcast of video, said system comprising:
a live broadcasting (LB) server; a processor functionally associated with a digital memory, which digital memory stores processor executable code adapted to cause one or more processors of a mobile communication device to: (i) communicate with said LB server over a distributed data network and stream, substantially in real time, to said server a video sequence being captured via a native image sensor of said mobile communication device, which native image sensor is an integral component of said mobile communication device wherein said LB server broadcasts, via the distributed data network, the video sequence, as it is being captured, to one or more social networking site friends of a user of said mobile communication device, wherein a social networking friend of a given user is an individual associated with the given user on a social networking site and the social networking site is a web based social networking service hosted by one or more servers and operated by a third party; (ii) receive, using the communication circuitry of said mobile communication device, feedback to the video from the one or more social networking site friends; and (iii) display, upon a native display of said mobile communication device, the received feedback in conjunction with a display of the video sequence, during the capture of the video sequence; wherein said LB server comprises an application programming interface (API) for communicating with the one or more servers hosting the social networking site and is adapted to: (1) automatically post, within a listing stored on the one or more servers hosting the social networking site, using said API, an indication of the broadcast of the video sequence, which listing is associated with the user of the mobile communication device, (2) retrieve from the one or more servers hosting the social networking site feedback to the video clip, posted upon the social networking site, and (3) relay the feedback to the mobile communication device.