Patent ID: 8341662
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method in a data processing system for user controlled selection of multimedia data streams for an event, the method comprising: receiving a set of video streams; receiving a set of audio streams; selecting a subset of the set of video streams; selecting a subset of the set of audio streams; responsive to user input to the data processing system, selecting a plurality of video streams from the video stream subset for the event, and one or more audio streams from the audio stream subset for the event, wherein the selecting step omits ones of the video stream subset while retaining the selected plurality of video streams, and omits ones of the audio stream subset while retaining other ones of the audio stream subset; and presenting each of the retained plurality of video streams concurrently with one another, and also concurrently with the retained other ones of the audio stream subset.