Patent ID: 8817065

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a selection of one or more users of a social networking service, the selection based on user input provided via a social networking interface; receiving a plurality of property settings via the social networking interface, the plurality of property settings being associated with a received live visual data feed; receiving the received live visual data feed over a network and derived from a video camera, wherein the received live visual data feed includes a plurality of frames having a time interval between the frames; detecting bandwidth conditions over the network; modifying the received live visual data feed to create a modified live visual data feed based on the detected bandwidth conditions; and sending the modified live visual data feed over the network using the social networking service to be distributed to the one or more users via the social networking service, wherein the modified live visual data feed includes a plurality of still image frames derived from the frames of the received live visual data feed, and wherein the modified live visual data feed provides a longer time interval between its successive still image frames than the time interval between the frames of the received live visual data feed, wherein the longer time interval is based on the detected bandwidth conditions over the network.