US Patent Issued to Airbnb on March 24 for "Outputting emotes based on audience member expressions in large-scale electronic presentation" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,399, issued on March 24, was assigned to Airbnb Inc. (San Francisco).

"Outputting emotes based on audience member expressions in large-scale electronic presentation" was invented by Avand Amiri (Mariposa, Calif.) and Stepan Parunashvili (New York City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A presentation service generates an audience interface for an electronic presentation. The audience interface may simulate an in-person presentation, including features such as a central presenter and seat locations for audience members. The audience members may select emotes which may be displayed in the audience interface. The emotes may indicate ...