Methods and user interfaces for video messaging

摘要

Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system by receiving, at an instant messaging host, a video file from a sender and intended for a recipient; authenticating the video file; and sending the video file to the intended recipient.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
establishing, by a processor, a communications session between a first computing device of a first user of a social communications system and a second computing device of a second user of the social communications system; determining, by the processor, whether the second computing device has video-enabled capabilities; and based on the determination that the second computing device has video-enabled capabilities, displaying a video-enabled graphical user interface on the first computing device that enables:
the first user to send video to the second user via the video-enabled graphical user interface;the first user to view video from the second user via the video-enabled graphical user interface; andthe first user to exchange textual messages with the second user, via the video-enabled graphical user interface, simultaneously with one or more of viewing or sending video; or based on the determination that the second computing device does not have video-enabled capabilities, displaying a non-video-enabled graphical user interface on the first computing device that enables the first user to exchange textual messages with the second user via the non-video-enabled graphical user interface, wherein the non-video-enabled graphical user interface does not enable the first user to view video from or send video to the second user.