Patent ID: 11943186
Assignee: VOXER IP LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A method comprising:
maintaining a messaging infrastructure on a network;
receiving, at the messaging infrastructure, information from a first device used by an initiating participant, the information usable by the messaging infrastructure for forwarding video media of a video message, the video media received by the network infrastructure either concurrent with or after receipt of the information, but not before the information;
using the information at the messaging infrastructure for forwarding the video message by:
(i) ascertaining second participants for participation in a conversation using the information; and
(ii) streaming, by the messaging infrastructure, at least portions of the video media of the video message to one or more second devices associated with at least some of the ascertained second participants, the streaming to the one or more second devices occurring as the video media of the video message is streamed by the first device, received at the messaging infrastructure, and stored by the messaging infrastructure,
the streaming of the video media of the video message by the messaging infrastructure enabling the one or more second devices to render the at least portions of the video media of the video message in a real-time mode:

(a) while the video media of the video message is streamed by the first device; and
(b) without first setting up an end-to-end connection over the network between the first device and any of the one or more second devices respectively;
enabling one or more second participants that have joined the conversation to:
(i) selectively add to the conversation one or more additional messages; and
(ii) render the one or more additional messages.