A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.

A computing device is coupled to a display device, and includes a data monitoring software application program executing on a processor within a data monitoring system. Via the data monitoring software application program, various techniques are performed for generating user interfaces for data monitoring and event response. In a first technique, the data monitoring software application program displays a user interface that includes a first region including a data visualization and a second region including one or more images of a video stream. In a second technique, the data monitoring software application program generates a user interface associated with an event, receive an input corresponding to interaction with a user interface element in the user interface, and initiates an event channel associated with the event in response to the input.

A system, device and method for secure message thread communication is provided. The device comprises a communication interface; a display device; and, a controller configured to: generate, at the display device, a plurality of message threads, the plurality of message threads associated with different incident reports; receive multimedia data for transmission in a first message thread of the plurality of message threads; compare the multimedia data with data from the different incident reports; and when an association is determined between the multimedia data and respective data from an incident report associated with a second message thread, of the plurality of message threads: transmit, using the communication interface, the multimedia data in the second message thread, and not the first message thread.

A method for monitoring and correcting playback performance for content player. The method includes detecting a content player request from a media player on a user device, the content player request corresponding to a content item request from a server, generating a playback identifier including data corresponding to the content item, detecting one or more playback events occurring during playback of the content by the content player, generating one or more playback packets including the playback identifier, a packet identifier, and the one or more playback events, and transmitting the one or more playback packets to a server.

A computer-implemented method for preserving media streams may include (i) identifying a media stream transmitted by a client device to a server that hosts the media stream for access by additional devices, (ii) detecting that the server is expected to go offline, (iii) sending, in response to detecting that the server is expected to go offline, a message to the client device indicating that the server is expected to go offline, (iv) receiving, at an additional server, a request from the client device to host the media stream, and (v) in response to receiving the request, hosting the media stream at the additional server while ceasing to host the media stream at the server that is expected to go offline. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

In a frictionless handoff of audio content playing, a client device listens for ultrasonic audio. The client hears a playing of a modified audio content by another client device, which includes audio content and an ultrasonic audio quick response (QR) code overlaid on the audio content. The ultrasonic audio QR code includes location information corresponding to a location in the audio content. The client device extracts the ultrasonic audio QR code from the modified audio content. After determining that the playing of the modified audio content has stopped, the client device receives a command to resume playing of the audio content on the client device. In, response to the command, the client device retrieves location information in a last extracted ultrasonic audio QR code and plays the audio content starting at a location in the audio content corresponding to the location information in the last extracted ultrasonic audio QR code.

In a frictionless handoff of audio content playing, a client device listens for ultrasonic audio. The client hears a playing of a modified audio content by another client device, which includes audio content and an ultrasonic audio quick response (QR) code overlaid on the audio content. The ultrasonic audio QR code includes location information corresponding to a location in the audio content. The client device extracts the ultrasonic audio QR code from the modified audio content. After determining that the playing of the modified audio content has stopped, the client device receives a command to resume playing of the audio content on the client device. In, response to the command, the client device retrieves location information in a last extracted ultrasonic audio QR code and plays the audio content starting at a location in the audio content corresponding to the location information in the last extracted ultrasonic audio QR code.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to render one or more workflow interface objects to a group-based communication apparatus in association with an operational sequence set returned by a query. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to detect a workflow trigger event associated with a workflow identifier, retrieve an operational sequence set based upon at least the workflow identifier from a group-based communication workflow repository, initiate the operational sequence set, and cause rendering of one or more workflow interface objects to the group-based communication interface. In some embodiments, the operational sequence sets are associated with a group-defined template.

A first screen device establishes a pairing session between a first screen device and a second screen device. The first screen device presents, in a user interface on the first screen device, a video and one or more media features related to the video. The media features pertain to at least one of a presentation of the video or user feedback about the video. The video is cast from the first screen device onto the second screen device. The first screen device receives, via the user interface, user input indicating a user request to enable presentation of at least one of the media features on the second screen device in connection with the video. In response to the user input, the first screen device causes the at least one of the media features to be presented on the second screen device in connection with the video.

A near end device is in a call (voice or video) over a communication link with a far end device. The near end device monitors constraints of the near end device, such as environmental noise at the near end device, latency between sequential data packets, signal strength or quality over the communication link, and energy level. The near end device detects when the near end device is having or is soon to have communication difficulty with the call due to one or more of the constraints. In response to detecting that the near end device is having or is soon to have communication difficulty with the call, the near end device communicates one or both of audible feedback and visual feedback to the far end device, notifying the far end device that the near end device is having or is soon to have communication difficulty with the call.