Patent ID: 11870660
Assignee: ZOOM VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer storage medium comprising processor-executable program instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices of an audio/video conference (AVC) provider, configure the one or more computing devices to:
host an AVC for a group of client machines participating in the AVC to exchange audio or video streams during the AVC, wherein the AVC provider is remote from the group of client machines;
determine a mesh reliability variable;
generate a mesh network, wherein generating the mesh network involves:
based on the mesh reliability variable, assigning a first portion of client machines from the group of client machines to operate as parent nodes, and assigning a second portion of client machines from the group of client machines to operate as child nodes in the mesh network; and
assigning child nodes to parent nodes; and

deliver a media data stream from the AVC to the parent nodes, wherein the media data stream is provided from the parent nodes to the assigned child nodes.