Systems and methods for preserving media streams

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• transmitting, from a client device, a media stream to a server that hosts the media stream for access by additional devices;
• prior to receiving, at the client device, instructions to connect to an additional server that is managed by a platform, sending, from the client device and to the platform, a confirmation message indicating that the client device supports mid-stream reconnection;
• receiving, by the client device and based on sending the confirmation message to the platform, an instruction to connect to the additional server, the instruction comprising a message indicating that the server is expected to go offline;
• in response to receiving the message and prior to the server going offline:
• sending, by the client device to the additional server, a reconnect request to host the media stream;
• and
• transmitting, by the client device, the media stream to the additional server while ceasing to transmit the media stream to the server that is expected to go offline.

A system comprising:

• a client device that transmits a media stream;
• a server that hosts the media stream for access by additional devices;
• a stream preservation module that:
• prior to instructing the client device to connect to an additional server that is managed by a platform, receives, from the client device, a confirmation message indicating that the client device supports mid-stream reconnection;
• detects that the server that hosts the media stream is expected to go offline;
• and
• in response to detecting that the server is expected to go offline and based on receiving the confirmation message from the client device, instructs the client device to connect to the additional server by notifying the client device that the server is expected to go offline;
• and
• wherein the additional server, prior to the server going offline:
• receives a reconnect request from the client device to host the media stream;
• and
• hosts the media stream.