Patent ID: 11924264
Assignee: GROOPVIEW, INC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A communal media system to form a trust network in a communal session, the communal media system comprising one or more processors to execute functions of the communal media system and a memory to store data of the communal session, the communal media system, comprising:
an integration system including a processor to integrate and communicatively couple the communal media system with a streaming application, wherein an initiator included within the streaming application executes the communal media system within the streaming application, wherein the integration system receives a source location for multimedia content selected in the streaming application and share the source location with a player, in the streaming application, that transmits the multimedia content to user devices participating in the communal session;
an engagement system including a processor to present offerings to the user devices in the communal session, obtain user data associated with user interactions with the offerings presented by the engagement system, analyze the user data, and optimize information presented to the user devices in the communal session based on the user data; and
a synchronization system including a processor to initiate video playback on the user devices, synchronize delivery, to the user devices, of the multimedia content and social media content generated on the user devices, and exchange playback control messages with the streaming application to direct synchronized transmissions of the multimedia content and social media content from the player to the user devices,
wherein the multimedia content and the social media content are delivered to the user devices at a same time, without any noticeable lag time during receipt of the multimedia content and the social media content by the user devices.