Patent ID: 11863335
Assignee: ZOOM VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to:
establish, by a video conference provider, a first chat channel for exchanging chat messages between a plurality of client devices;
receive, by the video conference provider, an indication to generate a first spotlight card within the first chat channel, wherein the indication identifies spotlight content from a first resource external to the first chat channel;
generate, by the video conference provider, the first spotlight card identifying the spotlight content, wherein to generate the first spotlight card the processor-executable instructions further cause one or more processors to:
access the first resource external to the first chat channel;
identify the spotlight content responsive to the indication to generate the first spotlight card; and
generate the first spotlight card based on the spotlight content from the first resource external to the first chat channel; and

transmit, by the video conference provider to one or more of the client devices connected to the first chat channel, the first spotlight card for display within a spotlight panel within the first chat channel, the spotlight panel positioned proximate to a chat messaging panel comprising one or more chat messages posted to the chat channel.