Patent 11451667 was granted and assigned to Zoom Video Communications on September, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A request for a contact center agent interaction is received from a user device associated with a user. The user device is connected to a virtual waiting room that includes waiting users of a contact center queue. The virtual waiting room enables the user to virtually interact with at least a subset of the waiting users. Responsive to an indication to activate a private session between the user device and an agent device associated with a contact center agent, the user is removed from the virtual waiting room.