Method and system for providing virtual co-presence to broadcast audiences in an online broadcasting system

摘要

There is provided an online broadcasting system for providing virtual co-presence to broadcast audiences. The online broadcasting system may comprise a plurality of user terminals, a user reaction processing server and a broadcast server configured to transmit broadcast program data to the user terminals. The user terminals may be configured to: display a broadcast program based on the broadcast program data; receive individual user reaction data from a user input interface; and transmit the received individual user reaction data to the broadcast server. The user reaction processing server may be configured to: receive the individual user reaction data from each of the user terminals; aggregate the individual user reaction data to create total user reaction data based on the received individual user reaction data; generate interface control data based on the total user reaction data, wherein the interface control data, when executed, is operative to cause a client application to generate output indicative of the total user reaction data; and transmit the generated interface control data to at least one of the user terminals.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a computing device, individual user reaction data from a plurality of user terminals, said individual user reaction data being generated at each of the plurality of user terminals in relation to a broadcast program broadcasted to the plurality of user terminals, said individual user reaction data indicating a mood or action a corresponding user at the each of the plurality of user terminals has to the broadcast program; aggregating, by the computing device, the individual user reaction data to create total user reaction data based on the received individual user reaction data; generating, by the computing device, interface control data based on the total user reaction data, wherein the interface control data, when executed, is operative to cause a client application to generate output indicative of the total user reaction data, the output comprising visual and audible output corresponding to the total user reaction data, the visual output represented by one or more avatars displaying a particular movement associated with the total user reaction data; and transmitting, by the computing device, the generated interface control data to at least one of the plurality of user terminals.