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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 12, 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 Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems provide dynamic background selection in a chat interface. First, the system receives metadata about a chat session comprising a number of participants. The system then determines a virtual background based on one or more background selection criteria and at least a subset of the metadata about the chat session. Finally, the system displays, for each of the participants in the chat session, a spatial chat user interface including the determined virtual background, with the one or more spatialized avatars overlaid on the virtual background and positioned spatially within it.