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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsHarry R. Chesley, Greg Kimberly, Anoop Gupta, Manuel Vellon, Steven M. Drucker
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A database of objects is distributed between a server computer and multiple client computers as an object oriented virtual world environment (VWE) with multimedia presentation features. A primary database is maintained on the server and includes at least one entry for each object disposed within the VWE. In one implementation a presentation virtual world environment has a multi-user virtual presentation room object (ShowRoom) in which presentation or information element objects (ShowItems) are presented from a server to multiple viewers at multiple client computers. The presentation room object and presentation element objects are global objects in that they are provided from server to client computers as part of a presentation VWE. The presentation element objects provide a model representing a presentation in the presentation VWE. Interface objects at the client computers provide a view of the presentation, with user interface and control elements, which view is separate from the model provided by the presentation element objects.
In a multi-user virtual world environment in which multiple users can simultaneously perceive and interact with the virtual world environment and with each other, virtual world environment software objects on a computer readable medium of a computer of a user and corresponding to a presentation within the virtual world environment, comprising:
In an object oriented multi-user domain in which multiple users can simultaneously perceive and interact with the domain and with each other, a persistent object oriented multi-user domain method in which objects are distributed between computer readable media associated with a server computer and plural client computers with corresponding users, comprising:
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