Patent ID: 11930057
Assignee: GROOPVIEW, INC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method for delivering multimedia content during a communal session at a communal media system communicatively coupled with a streaming application, comprising:
integrating and communicatively coupling the communal media system with the streaming application, wherein an initiator included within the streaming application executes the communal media system within the streaming application;
authenticating access to multimedia content for each of a plurality of user devices participating in a communal session;
receiving a first recording from a first user device in the communal session, the first recording being generated from a first set of cameras of the first user device;
receiving social media content generated on one or more of the plurality of user devices, the social media content including a second recording generated simultaneously with the first recording on the first user device, the second recording being generated from a second set of cameras of the first user device;
initiating video playback on a player in the streaming application, the player being configured to transmit the first recording and the social media content to each of the plurality of user devices; and
synchronizing delivery of the first recording and the social media content, via the player, by exchanging playback control messages with the streaming application to direct synchronized transmissions of the first recording and the social media content from the player to user devices, the first recording and the social media content being delivered to the user devices at a same time, without any noticeable lag time in delivery of the first recording and the social media content to the user devices.