Patent ID: 9730023
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: establishing, by a server, communication with user devices, the user devices including a first user device and other user devices; for each user device, receiving, by the server, location data identifying a location of that user device; for each user device, determining, by the server, a geographical region based on the location of that user device, the geographical region having an area; for each user device, determining, by the server, the other user devices that are within the geographical region of that user device; receiving, by the server, audio streams from at least one of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device; transmitting, by the server, the audio streams to the first user device; and changing, by the server, a number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device by changing the area of the geographical region based on a level of communication traffic for audio streams received from the other user devices; wherein: the changing of the number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device includes at least one of: 1) decreasing, by the server, the number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device by decreasing the area of the geographical region, and 2) increasing, by the server, the number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device by increasing the area of the geographical region; the decreasing of the area of the geographical region is in response to the number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device being above a maximum threshold; and the increasing of the area of the geographical region is in response to the number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device being below a minimum threshold.