US 11,968,055 B2
Assigning participants to rooms within a virtual conferencing system
Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Long Island City, NY (US); and Walton Lin, Chatham, NJ (US)
Assigned to SNAP INC., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/963,724.
Application 17/963,724 is a continuation of application No. 17/393,186, filed on Aug. 3, 2021, granted, now 11,489,684.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/168,131, filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0032922 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 12/1818 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1822 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
accessing, in association with a virtual space comprising plural rooms for virtual conferencing between plural participants, room occupancy preferences for occupying the plural rooms;
accessing metadata associated with one or more participants of the plural participants;
assigning, based on the room occupancy preferences and the metadata, the plural participants to one or more rooms of the plural rooms; and
providing, based on the assigning, for virtual conferencing between the plural participants within the one or more rooms,
wherein the room occupancy preferences include a preference to assign participants to rooms with higher participant conversation.