Presenting participant reactions within a virtual conferencing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11784841-B2
Application number	US-202217856588-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2022
Priority date	Mar 30, 2021
Publication date	Oct 10, 2023
Grant date	Oct 10, 2023

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting participant reactions to a virtual conference. The program and method provide for a virtual conference between plural participants; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a reaction button which is selectable by the participant to indicate a reaction to the virtual conference; receive indication of selections of the reaction button by one or more of the plural participants; and in response to receiving the indication, provide, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction icons and audio output based on the selections, determine that a rate at which the selections were received meets a threshold rate, and provide, in response to the determining, for modified audio output associated with the selections.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
providing for a virtual conference between plural participants;
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of a reaction button which is selectable by the participant to indicate a reaction to the virtual conference;
receiving indication of selections of the reaction button by one or more of the plural participants; and
in response to receiving the indication,
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction icons based on the selections,
determining that a rate at which the selections were received meets a threshold rate, and
providing, in response to the determining, for display of supplemental images which are separate from the reaction icons and which are associated with the selections.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reaction icons comprise clapping hands.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the supplemental images comprise confetti displayed together with the clapping hands.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the supplemental images comprise fireworks displayed together with the clapping hands.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that the rate at which the selections were received meets a second threshold rate, and
providing, in response to determining that the rate meets the second threshold rate, for modified display of the supplemental images.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reaction button corresponds to an applause button to indicate applause with respect to the virtual conference.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtual conference is provided within a room of plural rooms, the plural rooms being included within a virtual space for virtual conferencing.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of a participant video element which corresponds to the participant and which includes a video feed for the participant.

9. A system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to perform operations comprising:
providing for a virtual conference between plural participants;
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of a reaction button which is selectable by the participant to indicate a reaction to the virtual conference;
receiving indication of selections of the reaction button by one or more of the plural participants; and
in response to receiving the indication,
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction icons based on the selections,
determining that a rate at which the selections were received meets a threshold rate, and
providing, in response to the determining, for display of supplemental images which are separate from the reaction icons and which are associated with the selections.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the reaction icons comprise clapping hands.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the supplemental images comprise confetti displayed together with the clapping hands.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the supplemental images comprise fireworks displayed together with the clapping hands.

13. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
determining that the rate at which the selections were received meets a second threshold rate, and
providing, in response to determining that the rate meets the second threshold rate, for modified display of the supplemental images.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the reaction button corresponds to an applause button to indicate applause with respect to the virtual conference.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the virtual conference is provided within a room of plural rooms, the plural rooms being included within a virtual space for virtual conferencing.

16. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of a participant video element which corresponds to the participant and which includes a video feed for the participant.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:
providing for a virtual conference between plural participants;
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of a reaction button which is selectable by the participant to indicate a reaction to the virtual conference;
receiving indication of selections of the reaction button by one or more of the plural participants; and
in response to receiving the indication,
providing, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction icons based on the selections,
determining that a rate at which the selections were received meets a threshold rate, and
providing, in response to the determining, for display of supplemental images which are separate from the reaction icons and which are associated with the selections.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the reaction icons comprise clapping hands.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the supplemental images comprise confetti displayed together with the clapping hands.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the supplemental images comprise fireworks displayed together with the clapping hands.

Assignees

• Snap Inc

Inventors

• Gale Maxwell
• Lin Andrew Cheng-Min
• Lin Walton

Classifications

• H04L12/1831 Primary

  Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status · CPC title

• H04L12/1822

  Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission · CPC title

• H04L65/4038

  with floor control · CPC title

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L65/4015

  where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference · CPC title