US 12,010,156 B1
System and method of enabling a non-host, participant-initiated breakout session in a videoconferencing system, and displaying breakout session participants in a participant-initiated breakout session view
Benjamin Slotznick, Mt. Gretna, PA (US)
Filed by Benjamin Slotznick, Mt. Gretna, PA (US)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/942,638.
Application 17/942,638 is a continuation of application No. 17/749,568, filed on May 20, 2022, granted, now 11,444,990.
Application 17/749,568 is a continuation of application No. 17/569,134, filed on Jan. 5, 2022, granted, now 11,343,293, issued on May 24, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/161,727, filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/137,429, filed on Jan. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/134,713, filed on Jan. 7, 2021.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 65/401 (2022.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 65/1093 (2022.01); H04N 5/272 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 65/4015 (2013.01) [G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04L 65/1093 (2013.01); H04N 5/272 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
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1. A method for displaying a session view of a host-initiated videoconferencing session and a non-host participant-initiated breakout session view in online meeting user interfaces, the session view displaying a video feed of the videoconferencing session to meeting participants of the videoconferencing session on their respective participant computers, wherein breakout session participants are a subset of the meeting participants, the method comprising:
(a) receiving, by a videoconferencing system, video feeds of each of the meeting participants, the video feeds being camera-captured views of each of the meeting participants;
(b) generating, by the videoconferencing system, instructions for a session view of the host-initiated videoconferencing session in the online meeting user interface for viewing by the meeting participants;
(c) creating, by the videoconferencing system, a non-host participant-initiated breakout session upon initiation by one of the meeting participants who is not a session host, the non-host participant-initiated breakout session including the meeting participant who initiated the non-host participant-initiated breakout session and any meeting participants who accepted an invitation to join the non-host participant-initiated breakout session,
wherein the meeting participant who initiated the non-host participant-initiated breakout session and any meeting participants who accepted the invitation to join the non-host participant-initiated breakout session are the breakout session participants;
(d) generating, by the videoconferencing system, instructions for a non-host participant-initiated breakout session view in the online meeting user interface for the breakout session participants using the video feeds of the respective breakout session participants; and
(e) transmitting, by the videoconferencing system, via an electronic network in communication with the videoconferencing system, instructions to the respective meeting participant computers, the instructions being instructions to:
(i) display only the session view of the host-initiated videoconferencing session to each of the meeting participants who are not breakout session participants, and
(ii) display the non-host participant-initiated breakout session view to each of the meeting participants who are breakout session participants,
wherein the breakout session participants are allowed to interact with each other within the non-host participant-initiated breakout session, and
wherein the non-host participant-initiated breakout session view is a gallery view that includes the breakout session participants, and
wherein the session view of the host-initiated videoconferencing session is a gallery view that includes a plurality of the meeting participants.