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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2013
Rabbit, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Philippe Clavel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timophey Zaitsev, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stefan Birrer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexandre Francois, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rabbit, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for sharing media within a chat room system, including: in response to receipt of a sharing selection from a user at a device, rerouting an audio output from a default audio output of the device to a virtual audio output, capturing a primary audio stream generated by an application executed on the device with the virtual audio output, sending the primary audio stream to an external server for distribution to secondary user devices, receiving a secondary audio stream from the external server and concurrently playing the primary audio stream and secondary audio stream at an audio output of the device.