Patent ID: 9654535
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a server, a gesture indication from a mobile device, the gesture indication having been generated by the mobile device in response to a user gesture on a user interface of the mobile device with respect to a video currently being recorded by the mobile device; accessing a social network service to obtain a listing of one or more potential visitors to view the video, the listing being automatically generated based at least partially on user preferences set by a user of the mobile device; accessing historical data describing previous actions initiated by the one or more potential visitors, the historical data used to generate user preference data corresponding to the one or more potential visitors, the historical data describing previous media content received by the potential visitors; issuing availability notifications to a subset of the one or more potential visitors in the listing, the subset determined based on the user preference data; receiving a visit request from one of the one or more notified potential visitors; and in response to the receiving of a visit request, causing the broadcasting of the video currently being recorded to the notified potential visitor corresponding to the visit request.