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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2021
Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Oded Gal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew Law, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sally Lu, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ping Luo, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Sharvari Nerurkar, Redmond, WA (US);
Archil Vardidze, Austin, TX (US);
Zheng Yuan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems provide for a spatialized display of chat messages within a messaging platform. First, the system displays, for each of a number of participants within a messaging session, a spatial chat user interface (hereinafter 'UI') consisting of: a virtual background; and one or more spatialized avatars representing the participants. The system receives initial chat messages sent by a participant from the plurality of participants, then displays, adjacent to each of a subset of the spatialized avatars, one or more initial chat bubbles corresponding to messages sent by one or more of the participants represented by the subset of the spatialized avatars. Concurrently or subsequently, the system displays one or more other participant chat bubbles. The system receives additional chat messages sent by the participant, and then displays the additional chat bubbles, repositioning the initial chat bubbles while the additional chat bubbles are displayed in their place.