Systems and methods for providing services are disclosed. One aspect comprises authenticating a user associated with a first service, receiving a selection of a second service, generating an opaque identifier associated with the user and the first service, wherein the opaque identifier facilitates the anonymous collection of data relating to the second service. Another aspect can comprise transmitting the opaque identifier to the second service, and receiving data relating to the second service.

This application provides a live streaming processing method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: displaying a live streaming room, the live stream room having a host account, a host sub-account and multiple viewer accounts, the host sub-account being used for assisting the host account of the live streaming room in operation; receiving real-time live streaming data of the live streaming room, and displaying a live streaming content on a live streaming room page according to the real-time live streaming data, the real-time live streaming data collected from the host account and the viewer accounts; and displaying, in response to a live streaming room operation of the host sub-account, an operation result of the live streaming room operation of the host sub-account in the live streaming room, wherein the operation result of the live streaming room operation updates the live streaming content on the live streaming room page.

A commentary video generation method and apparatus, server, and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a game instruction frame, the game instruction frame including at least one game operation instruction, and the game operation instruction being used for controlling a virtual object; generating a commentary data stream based on the game instruction frame, the commentary data stream including at least one piece of commentary audio describing a game event, and the game event being triggered during the virtual object performing the in-game behavior; rendering a game screen based on the game instruction frame to generate a game video stream, the game video stream including at least one game video frame; and combining the commentary data stream with the game video stream, the game video frame and the commentary audio corresponding to the same game event in the commentary video stream being aligned in time.

A method enables video surveillance service subscribers to share image streams with individual first responder agencies in the event of emergency. A customer administrator selects permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Permissions enable selection by static meta data such as type, audio, location, motion, recognition, spectrum, and epoch. Setting ranges of time controls access to video streams of present and past epochs. Under control by a customer administrator, a virtual machine dedicated to each responding agency instantiates a video server. A camera is shared by a customer administrator's selection of permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Video streams of present and past epochs are controlled by ranges of time. A notification is customized for each responding agency and each event by dynamically generating a link to a secure webserver which records geo-location or network identifiers for validation.

A method enables video surveillance service subscribers to share image streams with individual first responder agencies in the event of emergency. A customer administrator selects permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Permissions enable selection by static meta data such as type, audio, location, motion, recognition, spectrum, and epoch. Setting ranges of time controls access to video streams of present and past epochs. Under control by a customer administrator, a virtual machine dedicated to each responding agency instantiates a video server. A camera is shared by a customer administrator's selection of permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Video streams of present and past epochs are controlled by ranges of time. A notification is customized for each responding agency and each event by dynamically generating a link to a secure webserver which records geo-location or network identifiers for validation.

A method enables video surveillance service subscribers to share image streams with individual first responder agencies in the event of emergency. A customer administrator selects permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Permissions enable selection by static meta data such as type, audio, location, motion, recognition, spectrum, and epoch. Setting ranges of time controls access to video streams of present and past epochs. Under control by a customer administrator, a virtual machine dedicated to each responding agency instantiates a video server. A camera is shared by a customer administrator's selection of permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser or mobile device. Video streams of present and past epochs are controlled by ranges of time. A notification is customized for each responding agency and each event by dynamically generating a link to a secure webserver which records geo-location or network identifiers for validation.

Example techniques relate to playback queue subscriptions. An example implementation involves a computing system receiving, from a first computing device associated with a first user account, an instruction to enable subscription to a first playback queue associated with a first media playback system. In response to the instruction, the computing system enables second user accounts to subscribe to the first playback queue. The second user accounts are registered with respective second media playback systems in respective second household. The computing system receives, from a particular second media playback system, a request to subscribe to the first playback queue; and in response, sends one or more messages that update a control interface of the first control device to display a subscriber indication and (ii) sends one or more messages that populate a second playback queue of the particular second media playback system with audio tracks of the first playback queue.

Mechanisms for presenting media content items using multiple devices are provided. In some embodiments, methods for presenting media content are provided that include: detecting an offer to initiate a purchase of a content item being presented using the media device, wherein the media device has not been authenticated with a content service that provides the content item; in response to detecting the offer to initiate the purchase of the content item when the media device has not been authenticated with the content service that provides the content item, causing the media device to be discoverable by one or more mobile devices that are connected to a same local area network as the media device; encoding offer data corresponding to the detected offer to initiate the purchase of the content item; in response to receiving a status request from a mobile device that is connected to the same local area network as the media device, transmitting the encoded offer data associated with the purchase of the content item to the mobile device, wherein the encoded offer data causes a payment user interface to be presented on the mobile device; receiving a cast request from the mobile device to cast the content item on the media device; and in response to the cast request, executing a receiver application on the media device that accepts the cast request from the mobile device and causes the content item to be presented using the media device.

A method of determining content effectiveness, predicting content engagement, and recommending actions related to content is carried out by a content management system. The content management and analysis system analyzes a piece of content submitted by a user, determines a desired outcome for the piece of content, determines an audience engagement for the piece of content, tracks an audience behavior for the piece of content, determines a target persona related to the piece of content, determines a likely intent of the target persona related to the piece of content, and assigns a value to the piece of content based on a content effectiveness determined from the desired outcome, the audience engagement, the audience behavior, and the target persona. A user interface can include a dashboard interface that displays one or more pieces of content and an effectiveness score for each of the one or more pieces of content.

A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a reception function execution unit that transmits the program identification information and the program storage-destination information to the server device specified from the program storage-destination information; and an output unit that outputs sound information and image information on the broadcast program transmitted from the server device.