Multi-Variant Content Streaming

Number: 20240121477
Published: 2024-04-11
Filed: 2022-10-11
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Eivy; Adam D. et al.
CPC: H04N21/47205; H04N21/6405; A63F13/355; A63F13/655; A63F13/86; G06F16/738; G11B27/105; G11B27/322; H04N21/25891; H04N21/2668; H04N21/4532; H04N21/4667; H04N21/4788; H04N21/6408; H04N21/8541
Verdict: Set aside streaming variant delivery, business/plumbing
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

A multi-variant content streaming system includes processing hardware and a system memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to stream primary content to a plurality of media players, and receive, from a first media player of the plurality of media players, first user interaction data of a first user interacting with the first media player with the primary content. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate, using the first user interaction data, first variant content based on the primary content, and stream the first variant content to the first media player while continuing to stream the primary content to media players of the plurality of media players other than the first media player.

Background

BACKGROUND

When providing interactive entertainment that empowers audience members to determine how the performance will evolve, production teams typically tally the responses of participating audience members and then proceed to serve a single linear storyline that uses data from an aggregate audience decision, such as a majority vote. For example, a baseline narrative could contain a story about a character following a path which comes to a fork. Audience members may engage with the storyline by deciding which of two paths the character should take. In a conventional approach, a majority vote would send the character down a single path and present that single outcome to all audience members regardless of their individual votes. Even in instances in which the aggregate vote is split evenly between the two paths, some tie-breaking mechanism is typically used to collapse the two potential alternatives into a single continuation path for the character. Unfortunately, however, the more compelling the performance and the more initially engaged audience members are with the development of the storyline, the more likely it is that such a binary outcome will alienate or at least undesirably disappoint those audience members who preferred the path not taken.

Claims

1. A system comprising: processing hardware; and a system memory storing a software code; the processing hardware configured to execute the software code to: stream a primary content to a plurality of media players; receive from a first media player of the plurality of media players, first user interaction data of a first user interacting with the first media player with the primary content; generate, using the first user interaction data, a first variant content based on the primary content; and stream the first variant content to the first media player while continuing to stream the primary content to media players of the plurality of media players other than the first media player. || 11. A method for use by a system including processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code, the method comprising: streaming, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, a primary content to a plurality of media players; receiving from a first media player of the plurality of media players, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, first user interaction data of a first user interacting with the first media player with the primary content; generating, by the software code executed by the processing hardware and using the first user interaction data, a first variant content based on the primary content; and streaming, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, the first variant content to the first media player while continuing to stream the primary content to media players of the plurality of media players other than the first media player.