US 11,706,386 B1
Identifying an activity specifying thematic content for a video exchange session between users of an online system using a trained model
Kathleen Warner, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/118,274.
Int. Cl. H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04L 67/104 (2022.01)
CPC H04N 7/155 (2013.01) [H04L 67/1046 (2013.01); H04N 7/157 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a creation request for establishing a video exchange session from a requesting user at an online system, the creation request identifying one or more other users to exchange video content with the requesting user;
receiving a request from the requesting user to specify an activity for the video exchange session;
retrieving a plurality of activities maintained by the online system, each activity specifying thematic content for display to users participating in the video exchange session;
generating, for each of the plurality of activities, a probability that one or more of the other users would accept an invitation to join the video exchange session when the activity is specified for the video exchange session by applying a trained machine learned model to the activity and to characteristics of the one or more other users maintained by the online system; and
displaying a set of the activities to the requesting user to specify for the video exchange session, wherein the displayed set of activities are arranged based on their generated probabilities.