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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
hosting, by an audio/video conference (AVC) provider, an AVC, wherein a group of client machines participate in the AVC to exchange audio or video streams during the AVC, and wherein the AVC provider is remote from the group of client machines;
determining, by a mesh orchestrator executed by a first server operated by the AVC provider, a mesh reliability variable;
generating, by the mesh orchestrator executed by the first server for the AVC, a mesh network, wherein generating the mesh network involves:
based on the mesh reliability variable, assigning, by the mesh orchestrator executed by the first server, 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, by the mesh orchestrator executed by the first server, child nodes to parent nodes; and

delivering, by the AVC provider, 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.