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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dwayne B. Mercredi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Chi Wang Ho, Redmond, WA (US);
Pavol Mravec, Redmond, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a computer server machine maintains a persistent real-time group chatroom comprising one or more participants. At any given time, zero or more participants are active in the group chatroom. The computer server machine receives one or more video streams associated with a video session associated with one or more users. The video streams are communicated from one or more client devices with each client device respectively associated with the one or more users. The computer server machine provides a notification to one or more non-active participants, wherein the one or more non-active participants are not active in the persistent real-time group chatroom.