INTERACTION OF USER DEVICES AND SERVERS IN AN ENVIRONMENT

摘要

In an environment where video display devices are available for simultaneous viewing, servers provide audio streams to user devices for listening. People may, thus, listen to the audio streams through their user devices while watching the video display devices. An application on the user devices determines which audio streams are available, and the servers may indicate which audio streams are available. The application sends a request to a server to transmit a selected audio stream. The server transmits the selected audio stream, e.g. over a wireless network in the environment. A variety of additional features are enabled by the interaction of the application and the servers. The selected audio streams may be converted from stereo to mono. Advertisements may be presented through the user devices. The selected audio stream may be paused and later resumed at a pause point.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
a server receiving an audio stream that is one of a plurality of audio streams that correspond to a plurality of video streams available for simultaneous viewing within an environment; the server indicating that the audio stream is available for access; the server receiving a request to access the audio stream from a user device that is within the environment; the server transmitting an advertisement to the user device; converting the audio stream from a stereo audio stream to a mono audio stream; the server transmitting the mono audio stream to the user device for presenting by an application running on the user device; the server pausing the transmitting of the mono audio stream at a pause point; and the server resuming the transmitting of the mono audio stream at or near the pause point.