AGGREGATION & DISTRIBUTION OF DIVERSE MULTIMEDIA FEEDS

Organization Name

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Dennis Paul Rubery of Pittsford NY US

Shane Paul Springer of San Mateo CA US

Chi-chian Yu of San Ramon CA US

AGGREGATION & DISTRIBUTION OF DIVERSE MULTIMEDIA FEEDS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250097277 titled 'AGGREGATION & DISTRIBUTION OF DIVERSE MULTIMEDIA FEEDS

Original Abstract Submitted

systems and methods for aggregation and distribution of diverse multimedia feeds are provided herein. in an aspect, a method including establishing, by a video conference provider, a virtual meeting having a plurality of participants is provided. each participant joined to the virtual meeting may use a respective client device to exchange one or more audio or video streams via the virtual meeting. the method may also include receiving, from a first client device, a request to share a multimedia stream from an external source with one or more of the client devices during the virtual meeting. responsive to the request, the method may include receiving a connection to the multimedia stream from the external source and transmitting, by the video conference provider, the multimedia stream from the external source to the one or more client devices via the virtual meeting.