Patent ID: 9729497
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for implementing a subscription-based social media platform comprising the steps of: a server receiving from at least one of a computer and a mobile device of a content creator, a first REpresentational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) request for initializing a live stream from the mobile device, the first REST API request generated by an application running on the mobile device; the server storing metadata information of the received first REST API request in a database coupled to the server; the server sending a second REST request to an encoding service provider, the second REST request comprising a request for a plurality of bitrate Real Time Messaging Protocol (“RTMP”) stream configurations; the server receiving an RTMP protocol location from the encoding service provider; the server storing RTMP stream information in the database; the server sending the RTMP protocol location to the mobile device; the server receiving a first notification from the mobile device that the mobile device has initiated the live stream; and the server sending a second notification to the database that the mobile device has initiated the live stream.