Patent ID: 11888905
Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. 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.