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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stephane Taine, Issaquah, WA (US);
Edward Young Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dwayne B. Mercredi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael Leggett, Seattle, WA (US);
Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peter Henry Martinazzi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Evan Patrick Noon, Seattle, WA (US);
Duckjin Kang, Issaquah, WA (US);
John Randall Ehrhardt, Issaquah, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes launching, by a client system of a first user, a video-call session to enable a video stream for display in a small-overlay-window on a display of the client system of the first user; receiving, by the client system of the first user, a video stream comprising video from a client system of a second user; determining at least one property for the small-overlay-window based on information associated with the second user; and displaying the video stream in the small-overlay-window, wherein the small-overlay-window is customized based on the determined at least one property, and wherein the small-overlay-window is positioned directly over an interface of an active application running on the client system of the first user.