US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on Feb. 18 for "Optimizing video conferencing using contextual information" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,809, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Optimizing video conferencing using contextual information" was invented by Oliver Pell (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for optimizing video conferences. For instance, systems and methods described herein optimize both the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams. Systems and methods described herein optimize the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams by identifying a context associated with the one or more video conference d...