Patent ID: 9294522
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program is executable by a processor to perform operations comprising: providing, using one or more computing devices, a plurality of users of a social network with an ability to schedule a topic-specific, synchronous communication session to occur at a future time by specifying a specific topic for the communication session, one or more members of a social network group to invite, and a date and time; receiving an indication, from a first user of the plurality of users, to schedule the topic-specific, synchronous communication session to occur at the future time, the indication including a proposed topic for the communication session, one or more members of the first user's social network groups to invite, and the date and time; providing, using the one or more computing devices, electronic invitations concerning the topic-specific, synchronous communication session to one or more invited users chosen from the plurality of users of the social network, the electronic invitations including the proposed topic for the communication session and the date and time; receiving an invitation response notification, from at least one of the invited users, in response to the electronic invitation concerning the topic-specific, synchronous communication session; and providing, using the one or more computing devices, the topic-specific, synchronous communication session for the first user and the at least one of the invited users at the date and time by rendering an audio-video stream received from one or more of the first user and the at least one of the invited users within the topic-specific, synchronous communication session.