US 11,082,464 B1Granted

Displaying additional external video content along with users participating in a video exchange session

AssigneeFacebook, Inc.

InventorKathleen Warner

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Abstract

When an online system creates a video exchange session, a user participating in the video exchange session requests inclusion of external video data from an external source other than users participating in the video exchange session. The online system displays the external video content received from the external source in an interface in conjunction with video content received from the users participating in the video exchange session. Displaying the external video content in conjunction with video content from users participating in the video exchange session allows the online system to provide the users with a distraction while in the video exchange session. The online system may associate different external sources with different activities for the video exchange session, allowing selection of an activity to determine the displayed external video content.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving a creation request for establishing a video exchange session from a requesting user at an online system, the creation request identifying one or more other users to exchange video content with the requesting user;
receiving, at the online system, a request for an interface of the video exchange session to include external video content from an external source other than users participating in the video exchange session;
generating, by the online system, the interface of the video exchange session, the interface including regions associated with each user participating in the video exchange session, a region associated with a user displaying video content the online system receives from the user, and an external region in which external video content the online system receives from the source other than the users participating in the video exchange session is displayed;
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transmitting the interface from the online system to client devices of one or more users participating in the video exchange session.

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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions encoded thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive a creation request for establishing a video exchange session from a requesting user at an online system, the creation request identifying one or more other users to exchange video content with the requesting user;
receive, at the online system, a request for an interface of the video exchange session to include external video content from an external source other than users participating in the video exchange session;
generate, by the online system, the interface of the video exchange session, the interface including regions associated with each user participating in the video exchange session, a region associated with a user displaying video content the online system receives from the user, and an external region in which external video content the online system receives from the source other than the users participating in the video exchange session is displayed;
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transmit the interface from the online system to client devices of one or more users participating in the video exchange session.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.