Facebook, Inc.

Anne Raynor

Jason Duane Clark

Stephane Taine

Shyamalan Pather

Nora Micheva

Michelle Ruby Hwang

Joel Alexander Bullard

Sarah Morris

Candace Button Disco

Joseph Stephen Gonzalez

Kelly Nicole Stevens

Hoang Le

Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for providing modifiable views when capturing an image of a video call. When a user takes a picture of a video call (e.g., a screen shot), associated applications may scrape the phone of the call participants to acquire a better-quality image than what might be displayed in the call interface, which may be of reduced quality due to compression and/or bandwidth limitations. Problematically, the layout of the call interface is different on each user's device, which can cause the resulting screenshot to not look as expected. Exemplary embodiments therefore place the data scraped from each device into movable elements, which can be rearranged on the screen to alter the layout (even post-capture). Moreover, new layouts are possible, potentially with additional graphical elements. In some embodiments, information gathered from a user's social networking information can determine the layout parameters.

Methods and systems for configuring multiple layouts of video capture

The present application describes a new protocol for broadcasting and managing participation in virtual calls via a digital communication service, such as a social medial platform. The protocol allows broadcasting indications of virtual conversations between user accounts to other user accounts. In some embodiments, the indications may include invitations to join the virtual conversation. The protocol allows broadcasting and managing of virtual conversations between multiple devices via a real-time communication (RTC) channel. The protocol includes exchange messages to cooperatively establish the conversation, broadcast an indication of the conversation to at least one non-participating user, and/or manage a set of participants for the conversation.

Broadcasting and managing call participation

Users of multiple clients participate in a video chat session by exchanging video streams. A user initiates generation of a high-quality composite image of the video chat session. The clients each capture high-quality local images and send the images to a chat server via a communications channel that is out-of-band from the video streams. The chat server stores the images in a repository. The initiating user views the images and selects images and a layout to use for the composite image. The chat server assembles the composite image based on the selections and saves the composite image to the repository. The initiating user can retrieve the composite image and view it, post it to social media, and/or use it for other purposes.

Generating images of video chat sessions

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Anne Raynor