US 11,792,031 B2
Mixing participant audio from multiple 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 Aug. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/393,235.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/168,511, filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0321375 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 12/1827 (2013.01) [G06F 3/165 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
providing, in association with designing a first room for virtual conferencing, display of a user interface for mixing participant audio of conversation in from one or more second rooms into an audio channel corresponding to participant audio of conversation in for the first room;
receiving indication of user input via the user interface, the user input corresponding to settings for mixing the participant audio from the one or more second rooms into the audio channel corresponding to the participant audio for the first room; and
causing, based on the settings and during virtual conferencing within the first room, the participant audio from one or more second rooms to be mixed into the audio channel corresponding to the participant audio for the first room, such that the audio channel comprises a combination of audio captured from participants in the one or more second rooms and audio captured from participants in the first room,
wherein the settings include a setting specifying a rotation time for sampling participants in the one or more second rooms with respect to mixing the participant audio, the rotation time corresponding to a duration to sample a first participant in the one or more second rooms before rotating to sample a second participant in the one or more second rooms, wherein the first participant is different than the second participant.