Invention Application
- Patent Title: AUTOMATICALLY NAVIGATING BETWEEN ROOMS WITHIN A VIRTUAL CONFERENCING SYSTEM
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Application No.: US17390546Application Date: 2021-07-30
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Publication No.: US20220321617A1Publication Date: 2022-10-06
- Inventor: Maxwell Gale , Andrew Cheng-min Lin , Walton Lin
- Applicant: Snap Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Monica
- Assignee: Snap Inc.
- Current Assignee: Snap Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Monica
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F3/0482

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual space for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms included within the virtual space; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a participant video element which corresponds to the participant and which includes a user-selectable button for requesting that the participant follow another participant with respect to navigating between the plural rooms; receive a first indication of a user selection, by a first participant, of the user-selectable button corresponding to a second participant; receive a second indication that the second participant authorizes following the first participant when navigating between the plural rooms; and provide for the second participant to follow the first participant.
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