Interaction method and apparatus, and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12483435-B2
Application number	US-202217877932-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2022
Priority date	Feb 24, 2020
Publication date	Nov 25, 2025
Grant date	Nov 25, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an interaction method and apparatus, and an electronic device. A specific implementation of the method comprises: in response to detecting a trigger operation for a multimedia conference control, sending a multimedia conference start request to a server, wherein the server starts a multimedia conference in response to determining to start the multimedia conference on the basis of the multimedia conference start request; and in response to detecting a confirmation operation for a live broadcast conference confirmation control, sending live broadcast conference confirmation information to the server, wherein a live stream is generated on the basis of a received multimedia conference stream in response to the server receiving the live broadcast conference confirmation information, and in response to receiving the multimedia conference stream, and the multimedia conference stream is sent to the server by a participating subject of the multimedia conference. Thus, provided is a method for generating a live stream on the basis of the multimedia conference stream.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . An interaction method, comprising:
sending a multimedia conference starting request to a server in response to detection of a triggering operation on a multimedia conference control, wherein the server starts a multimedia conference in response to determination of the multimedia conference being started; and sending conference live confirmation information to the server in response to detection of a confirmation operation on a conference live confirmation control, wherein the server, in response to receipt of the conference live confirmation information and receipt of a multimedia conference stream, generates a live stream based on the received multimedia conference stream, and the multimedia conference stream is sent to the server by a client of the multimedia conference; wherein the server comprises a conference server and a live server; and the conference server generates the live stream based on the multimedia conference stream in response to receipt of the conference live confirmation information and receipt of the multimedia conference stream; and sends the generated live stream to the live server; or the conference server sends the multimedia conference stream to the live server in response to receipt of the conference live confirmation information and receipt of the multimedia conference stream, and the live server generates the live stream based on the multimedia conference stream; and the method further comprising at least one of the following: displaying the conference live confirmation control in response to receipt of live request information sent by another participant; displaying the conference live confirmation control in response to determination that a preset first conference condition is satisfied; or displaying the conference live confirmation control in response to receipt of live inquiry information sent by the server, wherein the live inquiry information is generated by the server in response to determination that a preset second conference condition is satisfied.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, by the server, live access information in response to receipt of the conference live confirmation information, and sending, by the server, the live access information to at least one of: the participant, a target audience, and a target network resource output terminal, wherein live access information indicates a manner in which the live stream is acquired.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
sending, in response to detection of a predefined sharing confirmation operation, a sharing request comprising an identification of a sharing confirmation object to the server, wherein the server, in response to receipt of the sharing request, sends the live access information to the sharing object, and an identification of the sharing object indicates a sharing object targeted by the sharing confirmation operation.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein a live stream request object, in response to receipt of the live access information, sends a live stream acquisition request to the server based on the live access information in response to detection of a trigger operation for the live access information, so that the server determines based on the live stream acquisition request whether to send the live stream to the live stream request object, and plays the live stream in response to receipt of the live stream.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
sending, by the server, live situation information to the participant, wherein the live situation information indicates relevant situation of live broadcast started based on the multimedia conference, and the method further comprises: displaying the live situation information on the multimedia conference interface.

6 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein a live stream playing interface comprises an information input control for receiving feedback information, wherein the server, in response to receipt of the feedback information sent by the sharing object, sends the feedback information to the participant, wherein the method further comprises: displaying the feedback information on the multimedia conference interface.

7 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the target network resource output terminal comprises at least one of: a target webpage, and a preset interface of a target application.

8 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the target audience comprises a preconfigured user set.

9 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises:
transmitting the live access information in a calendar event indicating the multimedia conference in response to receipt of the live access information and in response to determination that the multimedia conference is not started; and displaying the live access information in a display interface of the calendar event; and/or displaying the live access information on a multimedia conference interface in response to receipt of the live access information and in response to determination that the multimedia conference is in progress.

10 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein before the sending, in response to detection of a predefined sharing confirmation operation, a sharing request comprising an identification of a sharing object to the server, the method further comprises:
displaying an identification of a candidate sharing object in response to detection of a predefined sharing starting operation, wherein the identification of the candidate sharing object is determined based on a preset shareable user range and/or a user associated with the participant; and determining, in response to detection of a predefined selection operation, an identification of a candidate sharing object targeted by the selection operation as the identification of the sharing object.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the shareable user range is determined based on at least one of: a pre-established organizational structure and a pre-established relationship between users.

12 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the sharing object generates and displays forwarding restriction information in response to detection of a forwarding operation for the live access information, wherein the forwarding restriction information indicates that there is no permission to share the live access information.

13 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein a presentation style of the live access information is set depending on permission of the sharing object.

14 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the permission of the sharing object comprises restricting to forward, wherein the sharing object encapsulates indication information of the live stream into a card for display, and the card is provided with a live stream request control rather than a forwarding control.

15 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the live access information comprises at least one of:
a live address for indicating a live interface for playing the live stream; and a conference identification indicating the multimedia conference.

16 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the live stream acquisition request comprises a user identification; and determining, by the server based on the user identification in the live stream acquisition request, whether to return the live stream.

17 . The method according to claim 16 , wherein the determining, by the server based on the user identification in the live stream acquisition reques

Assignees

• Beijing Bytedance Network Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• XiaHou Jiaxi
• Li Mao
• Zhang Xin
• Yang Jingsheng
• Huang Shun
• Qi Ziyun
• Dai Zhenli
• Yu Zhou
• Li Lingfeng

Classifications

• H04L12/1818 Primary

  Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties · CPC title

• H04L65/403

  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

• H04N21/2743

  Video hosting of uploaded data from client · CPC title

• H04N21/2187

  Live feed · CPC title

• H04L65/765

  intermediate · CPC title