Assigning participants to rooms within a virtual conferencing system

• Main Authors: Lin, Andrew Cheng-min, Lin, Walton
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.04.2024
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for assigning participants to rooms within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for accessing, in association with a virtual space comprising plural rooms for virtual conferencing between plural participants, room occupancy preferences for occupying the plural rooms; accessing metadata associated with one or more participants of the plural participants; assigning, based on the room occupancy preferences and the metadata, the plural participants to one or more rooms of the plural rooms; and providing, based on the assigning, for virtual conferencing between the plural participants within the one or more rooms.