Patent ID: 11943510
Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A multimedia playback apparatus, comprising:
at least one memory configured to store program code; and
at least one processor configured to read the program code and operate as instructed by the program code, the program code comprising:
first playing code configured to cause at least one of the at least one processor to play first multimedia data; and
second playing code configured to cause at least one of the at least one processor:
switch from playing the first multimedia data to playing second multimedia data starting from a multimedia frame corresponding to a target starting point in the second multimedia data, based on a media switching operation, the second multimedia data comprising multimedia frames corresponding to a plurality of time points, the plurality of time points comprising pre-configured P candidate starting points, the target starting point belonging to the pre-configured P candidate starting points, and P being a positive integer greater than 1; and

switch, during the playing of the second multimedia data, from playing a first multimedia frame in the second multimedia data to playing a multimedia frame corresponding to a new starting point, based on a target triggering operation, the first multimedia frame being a multimedia frame in the second multimedia data that is being played at a moment at which the target triggering operation is performed, and the new starting point being a candidate starting point other than the target starting point among the pre-configured P candidate starting points, wherein
the first multimedia data belongs to a first data set;
when the media switching operation comprises a first interaction operation for instructing to perform multimedia switching in a same data set, the second multimedia data is multimedia data in the first data set other than the first multimedia data; and
when the media switching operation comprises a second interaction operation for instructing to perform multimedia switching in different data sets, the second multimedia data is multimedia data in a second data set, and the second multimedia data is determined according to one or more of a user preference profile of a target user and hot spot information of the second multimedia data.