US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Nov. 18 for "Shared group reactions within a video communication session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,929, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Shared group reactions within a video communication session" was invented by Abhishek Balaji (San Jose, Calif.) and Oded Gal (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide for the ability to display reactions within a video communication session. First, the system displays, for each of a number of participants within a video communication session, a user interface (UI), with the UI including a reactions session with a variety of selectable visual reactions, a number of participant windows corresponding to participants,...