Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Eric D Cox

Siddhartha Shankara Rao

John Joseph Dunne

Ivan Marcin

Richard Newman

Tobias DiPasquale

Implementations for combining a plurality of content based on instructions for a layout of a video conference are described. A video conference is established between a plurality of devices of participants of the video conference. First content is received from a device of the plurality of devices in the established video conference. Second content is also received. Instructions for a layout of the first content and the second content during the video conference is received. Based on the instructions for the layout, the first content and the second content are combined into a composite video stream. The composite video stream is saved or transmitted.

Programmable video composition layout

A service provider may determine that an electronic message sent from a first user device of a first user to a second user device of a second user includes a URL. The service provider may cause the URL to be unfurled, resulting in a preview of the URL, using a combination of a server-based process and a client-based process and one or more policies. Based on the policies, a cloud-based unfurling service may attempt to obtain metadata associated with the URL in order to unfurl the URL. If the server-based unfurling process is unable to unfurl the URL, the first device and/or the second device may obtain the metadata and unfurl the URL. As a result, the recipient of the message (e.g., the second user) may view an unfurled URL that includes a preview of a website corresponding to the URL (e.g., a title/headline, representative text, images, videos, etc.).

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Eric D Cox