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Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2021
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vivek Garg, Seattle, WA (US);

Mudit Goel, Sammamish, WA (US);

Paul Seia Ogawa, Seattle, WA (US);

Eduardo Diaz Real, Bellevue, WA (US);

Joel Alexander Sharin, Seattle, WA (US);

Keetaek Hong, Seattle, WA (US);

Ross Legacy, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/152 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure describes a video room system that can efficiently and flexibly generate and facilitate video rooms for video chatting between participant devices by prioritizing video streams to provide to participant devices based on performance parameters. For example, the video room system can provide different video room streams to different participant devices based on the performance parameters of the participant devices. In addition, the video room system can customize or tailor video room streams based on identifying dominant speaker devices, determining connections between participant devices as indicated by a social graph of a social networking system, and/or based on join methods utilized by participant devices to join a video room.


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