H04N 7/157
Defining a virtual conference space and using avatars or agents
Official title: {defining a virtual conference space and using avatars or agents (computer conference optimisation or adaptation H04L12/1827)}
H04N7/157 (Defining a virtual conference space and using avatars or agents) appears on 1,131 US grants and 1,491 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- User Interface for Displaying Key Participants in a Conference8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313069 A1Zoom Communications, Inc.
- Reusable virtual conference space8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313073 A1Avaya Management L.P.
- Spatial chat view8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313074 A1Zoom Communications, Inc.
- Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying a representation of a person8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313075 A1Apple Inc.
- Avatar call platform8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313076 A1Snap Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Animated electronic meeting place947US 5,347,306 AMitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. · 1994
- Method and system for facilitating wireless, full-body, real-time user interaction with a digitally represented visual environment568US 5,563,988 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1996
- Avatar animation, social networking and touch screen applications526US 9,460,541 B2Intel Corporation · 2016
- Avatar-based video encoding509US 9,589,357 B2Intel Corporation · 2017
- System and method for avatar management and selection498US 9,357,174 B2Intel Corporation · 2016