Patent ID: 11949968
Assignee: SW DIRECT SALES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. An interaction decoder for displaying interactive live video streams, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, comprising an interaction decoding application, where the interaction decoding application directs the processor to:
receive a manifest from an interaction encoder, where the manifest describes the location of an interaction track and a location of a video track, and where the interaction track comprises at least one interaction object comprising a data structure capable of being decoded in near-real time by the interaction decoder to produce the interaction object in the video track at a given timestamp;
request the interaction track using the location of the interaction track;
request the video track using the location of the video track;
receive the interaction track and the video track in response to the requests;
render the video track using a video player;
generate an interaction pane, where the interaction pane is transparent and overlays the video player;
render the interaction object in the interaction pane using the data structure at a time and location indicated by the data structure; and
displaying, in response to selection of the interactable object, an interaction effect indicated by the data structure.