US 12,462,445 B2
Expo floor layout
Andy Chan, Santa Clara, CA (US); Jeffrey Houng, Redmond, WA (US); Yuk Fai Lam, San Jose, CA (US); and Pankaj Prasad, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Zoom Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/773,132.
Application 18/773,132 is a continuation of application No. 17/582,955, filed on Jan. 24, 2022, granted, now 12,039,627.
Prior Publication US 2025/0014234 A1, Jan. 9, 2025
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 11/00 (2013.01) [H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a virtual expo floor layout, the virtual expo floor layout establishing a virtual expo floor and locations for a plurality of virtual expo booths on the virtual expo floor;
establishing, by a virtual conference provider, a virtual expo according to the virtual expo floor layout;
establishing, by a video conference provider, a video conference corresponding to the virtual expo floor;
in response to requests from a plurality of client devices to join the virtual expo:
joining the plurality of client devices to the virtual expo, and
providing, to each client device of the plurality of client devices, information indicating the virtual expo floor layout; and
in response to a first request from a first client device to join a first virtual expo booth:
joining the first client device to the first virtual expo booth, the first virtual expo booth comprising a plurality of booth spaces;
receiving a second request from the first client device to join a first booth space of the plurality of booth spaces, and
joining the client device to a first booth space virtual conference corresponding to the first booth space.