US 11,729,239 B1
Electronic real-time communications
Nigel Clarke, Mountain View, CA (US); Marc Estruch Tena, San Jose, CA (US); John Novak, Santa Clara, CA (US); Catherine Kim, San Jose, CA (US); and Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.
Filed on Jun. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/845,548.
Int. Cl. H04L 65/752 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/752 (2022.05) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
accessing real-time content captured by a first user's client device, wherein the real-time content is captured at a first high quality and is one of a plurality of content frames in a real-time stream of content;
downgrading the quality of the real-time content to a second lower quality for transmission to a second user;
transmitting, to the second user, the downgraded real-time content;
determining, based on a request made by the second user, an area of interest of a subsequent real-time content, wherein the subsequent real-time content is captured by the first user's client device at the first high quality;
modifying the subsequent real-time content to focus on the area of interest, wherein the modified subsequent real-time content is at the first high quality;
downgrading the modified subsequent real-time content for transmission to the second user and
transmitting the downgraded, modified, subsequent real-time content to the second user.