Live broadcast stream pushing method and apparatus, and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11848762-B2
Application number	US-202217945014-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2022
Priority date	Mar 27, 2020
Publication date	Dec 19, 2023
Grant date	Dec 19, 2023

Abstract

Disclosed are a live broadcast stream pushing method and apparatus, and an electronic device. One specific embodiment of the method comprises: receiving viewing permission setting information, wherein the viewing permission setting information is used for representing viewing permission of viewing a live broadcast stream of a multimedia conference; on the basis of the live broadcast starting state of the multimedia conference and the viewing permission setting information, determining whether to push the live broadcast stream of the multimedia conference to a requester who requests the live broadcast stream; and in response to determining to push the live broadcast stream of the multimedia conference to the requester, pushing the live broadcast stream of the multimedia conference to the requester. According to the embodiment, the flexibility of pushing a live broadcast stream of a multimedia conference is improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A live stream pushing method, comprising:
receiving viewing permission setting information, wherein the viewing permission setting information represents a viewing permission for viewing a live stream of a multimedia conference;
determining whether to push the live stream of the multimedia conference to a requester requesting the live stream, based on an enabling status of live broadcast of the multimedia conference and the viewing permission setting information;
pushing the live stream of the multimedia conference to the requester, in response to determining to push the live stream of the multimedia conference to the requester;
wherein the method further comprises:
determining whether there exists a user having assignment permission for a preset identity, in response to receiving conference exiting information indicating that a target participant user having the preset identity exits the multimedia conference; and
suspending pushing the live stream of the multimedia conference to live viewers of a predetermined live platform, in response to absence of the user having the assignment permission.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the viewing permission setting information comprises permission change information representing a permission change; and
the determining whether to push the live stream of the multimedia conference to a requester requesting the live stream, based on an enabling status of live broadcast of the multimedia conference and the viewing permission setting information comprises:
determining to stop pushing the live stream of the multimedia conference to the requester, in response to the permission change information indicating that the requester is switched from having the viewing permission to not having the viewing permission in a status that the live broadcast is enabled.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining whether to push the live stream of the multimedia conference to a requester requesting the live stream, based on an enabling status of live broadcast of the multimedia conference and the viewing permission setting information comprises:
determining to push the live stream of the multimedia conference to the requester, in response to receiving a live broadcast enabling request for the multimedia conference and determining that the requester has the viewing permission in a status that the live broadcast is not enabled.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the viewing permission requires that an identity attribute of each live viewer of the multimedia conference meets a preset condition.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the preset condition comprises: having the same identity attribute as a target participant user with a preset identity.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein before the determining whether to push the live stream of the multimedia conference to a requester requesting the live stream, the method further comprises:
sending, in response to determining that the requester does not log into a multimedia conference application, a prompt information for logging into the multimedia conferencing application to the requester, to prompt the requester to log into the multimedia conferencing application.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, in response to receiving comment information for the live stream of the multimedia conference sent by a target live viewer, whether the target live viewer has logged into the multimedia conference application; and
sending, in response to that the target live viewer has logged into the multimedia conference application, the comment information to other live viewers of the multimedia conference.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
sending, in response to that the target live viewer has not logged into the multimedia conference application, prompt information for logging into the multimedia conference application to the target live viewer; and
sending, in response to receiving login information indicating that the target live viewer has logged into the multimedia conference application, the comment information to the other live viewers.

9. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a target user to be assigned with the preset identity, in response to existence of the user having the assignment permission; and
assigning the preset identity to the target user.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the conference exiting information comprises designation information indicating a candidate user to be assigned with the preset identity.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the determining whether there exists a user having assignment permission for a preset identity comprises:
determining whether the candidate user has the assignment permission, in response to that current viewing permission of the multimedia conference does not require an identity attribute of each live viewer of the multimedia conference meets a preset condition; and
determining that there exists the user having the assignment permission, in response to that the candidate user has the assignment permission.

12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the determining whether there exists a user having assignment permission for a preset identity comprises:
determining whether an identity attribute of a candidate user meets a preset condition, in response to that current viewing permission of the multimedia conference requires the identity attribute of each live viewer of the multimedia conference meets the preset condition;
determining whether the candidate user has the assignment permission, in response to that the identity attribute of the candidate user meets the preset condition; and
determining that there exists the user having the assignment permission, in response to that the candidate user has the assignment permission.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the determining the target user to be assigned with the preset identity comprises:
taking the candidate user as the target user.

14. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising:
sending prompt information indicating that the identity attribute of the candidate user does not meet the preset condition to the target participant user, in response to that the identity attribute of the candidate user does not meet the preset condition.

15. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
sending prompt information indicating that the candidate user does not have the assignment permission to the target participant user, in response to that the candidate user does not have the assignment permission.

16. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the determining whether there exists a user having assignment permission for the preset identity comprises:
determining whether there exists at least one first user having the assignment permission among participant users of the multimedia conference, in response to that current viewing permission of the multimedia conference does not require that an identity attribute of each live viewer of the multimedia conference meets a preset condition; and
determining that there exists the user having the assignment permission, in response to existence of the at least one first user; and
wherein the determining the target user to be assigned with the preset identity comprises:
determining the target user from the at least one first user.

17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the determining the target user from the at l

Assignees

• Beijing Bytedance Network Tech Co Ltd
• Douyin Vision Co Ltd

Inventors

• XiaHou Jiaxi
• Zhang Yu
• Li Mao
• Chen Jiaqi
• Ye Weiwei
• Li Haidong
• Zhang Xin
• Pang Haoran
• Qi Ziyun

Classifications

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L12/1822

  Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission · CPC title

• H04N7/155

  involving storage of or access to video conference sessions (tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831) · CPC title

• H04N21/2187 Primary

  Live feed · CPC title

• H04N7/147 Primary

  Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q) · CPC title