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

Claim 17:
18. A system comprising:
a client device that transmits a media stream;
a server that hosts the media stream for access by additional devices;
a stream preservation module that:
prior to instructing the client device to connect to an additional server that is managed by a platform, receives, from the client device, a confirmation message indicating that the client device supports mid-stream reconnection;
detects that the server that hosts the media stream is expected to go offline; and
in response to detecting that the server is expected to go offline and based on receiving the confirmation message from the client device, instructs the client device to connect to the additional server by notifying the client device that the server is expected to go offline; and

wherein the additional server, prior to the server going offline:
receives a reconnect request from the client device to host the media stream; and
hosts the media stream.