Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

Matthew Wesson

Robert Allen Ryskamp

Jeffrey William Smith

Ross Douglas Mayfield

Adam Justin Spooner

Amanda Naomi Etheridge

Michelle Frances Koike

Benjamin Gareth Dove

Li-An Huang

Jason Clark

One example method includes determining, by a computing device, a user present in a room is associated with a virtual space hosted at a video conference provider, wherein the room includes one or more peripheral devices; connecting, by the computing device, to the virtual space; receiving, by the computing device, data from at least one of the one or more peripheral devices or one or more user devices while connected to the virtual space, the one or more user devices associated with the user or one or more other users within the room; transmitting, by the computing device, at least a portion of the data to the virtual space; determining, by the computing device, a state change associated with the room based on the data received from the one or more peripheral devices or one or more user devices; generating, by the computing device, a change detection signal; and transmitting, by the computing device, the change detection signal to the video conference provider to cause the video conference provider to store data associated with the change detection signal in the virtual space.

Enhanced conference rooms for persistent hybrid virtual collaborative workspaces

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

Systems and methods for providing spotlight cards within a chat channel are provided. In an aspect, a method includes establishing, by a video conference provider, a first chat channel for exchanging chat messages between a plurality of client devices and receiving, by the video conference provider, an indication to generate a first spotlight card within the first chat channel, wherein the indication identifies spotlight content from a first resource external to the first chat channel. The method also includes generating, by the video conference provider, the first spotlight card identifying the spotlight content and transmitting, by the video conference provider to one or more of the client devices connected to the first chat channel, the first spotlight card for display within a spotlight panel within the first chat channel, the spotlight panel positioned proximate to a chat messaging panel including chat messages posted to the chat channel.

Chat channel highlights

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Boulder, CO, United States of America

Matthew Wesson