Granted Patent B2

US 11,263,254 · App. 17/327,050 · Granted Mar 1, 2022

Inventors: Allan Baril (Toronto, CA); Chirag Gada (Toronto, CA)

Assignee: Snap Inc.

G06F16/4387G06F16/48H04L65/4084H04N21/26258H04N21/8456

Abstract

Claims (70)

1. A content controller system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, causes the content controller system to perform operations comprising:

receiving a. request for a media content item from a client device, the request comprising a media content identification and a main user identification;

retrieving segment states from a segment state database, wherein the segment states indicate availability associated with media content item segments;

compiling and transmitting to the client device a playlist including a first set of media content item segments, wherein the first set of media content item segments is based on the segment states;

causing a plurality of servers to render segments corresponding to a plurality of segment render requests using the media content identification and the main user identification, wherein the segment render requests correspond to segments included in a second set of media content item segments,

wherein the plurality of servers rendering the segments comprises:

generating a main user avatar based on the main user identification, and

incorporating the main user avatar into the segments;

uploading the segments to a segment database; and

updating the segment states in a segment state database to indicate that the segments are available.

2. The content controller system of claim 1 , wherein

the media content item is a video associated with the media content identification.

3. The content controller system of claim 2 , wherein

the segments included in the second set of media content item segments are a plurality of frames included in the media content item.

4. The content controller system of claim 1 , wherein the main user identification is associated with a user of the client device.

5. The content controller system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprising:

retrieving the segment states from the segment state database.

6. The content controller system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprising:

collecting the segments.

7. The content controller system of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprising:

generating the second set of media content item segments.

8. The content controller system of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprising: updating the playlist to include the second set of media content item segments.

9. The content controller system of claim 8 , wherein updating the playlist further comprises:

compiling the updated playlist to include the second set of media content item segments; and

transmitting the updated playlist to the client device.

10. A content controller system comprising:

a delivery server system;

a rendering server system comprising a plurality of servers;

a processor; and.

a memory having instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, causes the delivery server system to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for a media content item from a client device, the request comprising a media content identification and a main user identification,

retrieving segment states from a segment state database, wherein the segment states indicate availability associated with media content item segments,

compiling and transmitting to the client device a playlist including a first set of media content item segments, wherein the first set of media content item segments is based on the segment states, and

the memory having instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, causes the plurality of servers of the rendering server system to perform operations comprising:

rendering segments corresponding to a plurality of segment render requests using the media content identification and the main user identification, wherein the segment render requests correspond to segments included in a second set of media content item segments, wherein rendering the segments comprises:

generating a main user avatar based on the main user identification, and

incorporating the main user avatar into the segments,

uploading the segments to the segment database, and

updating segment states in the segment state database to indicate that the segments are available.

11. The content controller system of claim 10 , wherein

the media content item is a video associated with the media content identification.

12. The content controller system of claim 11 , wherein the delivery server system is further to perform operations comprising:

encoding the second set of media content item segments into a video.

13. The content controller system of claim 10 , wherein

the first set of media content item segments and the second set of media content item segments, respectively, are a plurality of frames included in the media content item.

14. The content controller system of claim 13 , wherein the delivery server system is further to perform operations comprising:

updating the playlist to include the second set of media content item segments.

15. The content controller system of claim 10 , wherein the first set of media content item segments is sequential to the second set of media content item segments.

16. The content controller system of claim 15 , wherein the delivery server system updating the playlist comprises:

compiling the updated playlist to include the second set of media content item segments; and

transmitting the updated playlist to the client device.

17. The content controller system of claim 10 , wherein the main user identification is associated with a user of the client device.

18. The content controller system of claim 10 , wherein the delivery server system is further to perform operations comprising:

retrieving the segment states from the segment state database.

19. The content controller system of claim 10 , wherein the delivery server system is further to perform operations comprising:

collecting the segments and generating the second set of media content item segments.

20. A rendering server system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory component having instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, causes the rendering server system to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for a media content item from a client device, the request comprising a media content identification and a main user identification;

retrieving segment states from a segment state database, whereinthe segment states indicate availability associated with media content item segments;

compiling and transmitting to the client device a playlist including a first set of media content item segments, wherein the first set of media content item segments is based on the segment states;

generating a plurality of segment render requests, wherein the segment render requests correspond respectively to segments included in a second set of media content item segments;

causing a plurality of servers to render the segments corresponding to the segment render requests using the media content identification and the main user identification, wherein the plurality of servers rendering the segments comprises

generating a main user avatar based on the main user identification, and

incorporating the main user avatar into the segments;

uploading the segments to the segment database; and

updating segment states in the segment state database to indicate that the segments are available.

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