US 2014/0208239 A1 · GRAPHICAL AGGREGATION OF VIRTUALIZED NETWORK COMMUNICATION

Abstract

Techniques are described for aggregating information from multiple network-accessible service providers (such as multiple social networking service providers) using virtual objects to represent information, media and services in a plurality of rendered virtual environments, each of which may be associated with one or more users of the multiple service providers. A virtual environment associated with one or more particular users may be presented as any of a variety of internal or external spaces. Users may be represented in the room by virtual avatars, which may move or otherwise operate within one or more of the provided virtual environments. Virtual environments, virtual objects and avatars may be displayed as two- or three-dimensional.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by one or more computing systems configured to provide a social network service aggregation system, first social network data relating to a first user from a first social network service;
receiving, by the one or more configured computing systems, second social network data relating to the first user from a second social network service;
displaying, by the one or more configured computing systems, a first virtual object representative of the first social network data within a virtual environment associated with the first user;
and
displaying, by the one or more configured computing systems and concurrently with the displaying of the first virtual object, a second virtual object representative of the second social network data within the virtual environment associated with the first user.

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A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying, by one or more configured computing systems, a first virtual environment associated with a first user on a computing system of a second user, the first virtual environment including a virtual object selected by the first user for display in the first virtual environment;
and
based at least in part on a selection by the second user of the virtual object in the first virtual environment:
displaying, by the one or more configured computing systems, the virtual object in a second virtual environment associated with the second user;
providing, by the one or more configured computing systems, information related to the virtual object, the first user, and the second user to one or more sponsors associated with the virtual object;
and
facilitating, by the one or more configured computing systems, a providing of promotional information associated with at least one of the one or more sponsors to one or more of a group that includes the first user and the second user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Graphical aggregation of virtualized network communication

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Graphical aggregation of virtualized network communication

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Abstract

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