Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtual chat rooms
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Application No.: US16531415Application Date: 2019-08-05
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Publication No.: US10798034B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Cédric Beust
- Applicant: Oath Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: Oath Inc.
- Current Assignee: Oath Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: H04L12/58
- IPC: H04L12/58 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W4/08

Abstract:
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for hosting virtual chat rooms of a chat room are provided. For example, users (e.g., 3,000 users) may access video interfaces, hosting a video, and chat room interfaces associated with a chat room for the video (e.g., users may access a news website providing a live stream of a current event along with a chat room for discussing the live stream). Signals of the users (e.g., a user location, age, account profile information, prior chat room message behavior, etc.) are evaluated to identify user properties (e.g., the user is an active participant within chat rooms). The chat room may be sharded into a set of virtual chat rooms into which users are assigned based upon the user properties (e.g., 300 virtual chat rooms of 100 users each). In this way, users may have more meaningful interactions within the smaller virtual chat rooms.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190356619A1 VIRTUAL CHAT ROOMS Public/Granted day:2019-11-21
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