US 12,438,929 B2
Limiting perception levels of media exchanges within multi-user virtual sub-spaces
Robert Allen Ryskamp, Mountain View, CA (US); Adam Justin Spooner, Greensboro, NC (US); and Aleksandra Swerdlow, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to Zoom Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Zoom Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/946,279.
Prior Publication US 2024/0095681 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 65/401 (2022.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2023.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/4015 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
implementing, by a server comprising multi-user virtual space software, a multi-user virtual space, wherein implementing the multi-user virtual space comprises transmitting first video data and first audio data between a plurality of devices assigned to the multi-user virtual space, each of the plurality of devices being associated with a respective user thereof of a plurality of users;
forming a multi-user virtual sub-space within the multi-user virtual space;
assigning a group of users from among the plurality of users to the multi-user virtual sub-space, the group of users corresponding to a group of devices of the plurality of devices;
implementing, by the server, the multi-user virtual sub-space by transmitting second video data and second audio data between the plurality of devices;
focusing media exchanges for the group of users within the multi-user virtual sub-space by limiting a perception level of media exchanges between users not assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space relative to users assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space, wherein limiting the perception level comprises reducing a media volume of users not assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space for the users assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space;
receiving, from a user not assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space, a request to notify the user not assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space if a subject is discussed by the users assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space;
notifying the user not assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space based on the subject being discussed by the users assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space;
receiving, from a user assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space, a user input associated with an additional multi-user virtual sub-space, wherein the user assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space is not assigned to the additional multi-user virtual sub-space; and
reducing, based on the user input, a perception level of media exchanges associated with the multi-user virtual sub-space, relative to a perception level of media exchanges associated with the additional multi-user virtual sub-space, for the user assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space.