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US 9,288,242 B2Granted
Bridging physical and virtual spaces
AssigneeSocial Communications Company
InventorsDavid Van Wie, Paul J. Brody, Joseph W. Jennings
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Abstract
Examples of systems and methods for bridging virtual and physical spaces are described. In some of these examples, a particular communicant's real world state drives changes in one or more of the communications connections, virtual state, and communications interface of the particular communicant or another communicant.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- administering realtime communications between network nodes respectively associated with a user and other communicants in a network communications environment;
- receiving real world data comprising one or more attributes defining a physical state of the user, wherein at least one of the one or more attributes defines a real world location of the user;
- applying one or more conditions to the one or more attributes;
- and
- based on results of the applying, establishing a presence of the user in a virtual area defining a context for realtime communications in the network communications environment based on a determination that the real world location of the user is within a particular physical area that is defined in relation to a current real world location of another communicant.
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A method, comprising:
- administering realtime communications between network nodes respectively associated with a user and other communicants in a network communications environment;
- receiving real world data comprising one or more attributes defining a physical state of the user;
- applying one or more conditions to the one or more attributes;
- and
- based on results of the applying, establishing a presence of the user in a virtual area defining a context for realtime communications in the network communications environment based on a determination that the user and the other communicant are physically co-present.
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A method, comprising:
- administering realtime communications between network nodes respectively associated with a user and other communicants in a network communications environment;
- receiving real world data comprising one or more attributes defining a physical state of the user;
- applying one or more conditions to the one or more attributes;
- and
- based on results of the applying, establishing a presence of a other a communicant other than the user in a virtual area defining a context for realtime communications in the network communications environment.
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A method, comprising:
- administering realtinme communications between network nods respectively associated with a user and other communicants in a network communications environment;
- receiving real world data comprising one or more attributes defining a physical state of the user, wherein at least one of the one or more attributes defines a real world location of the user;
- applying one or more conditions to the one or more attributes;
- and
- based on results of the applying, terminating the presence of the user in a virtual area defining a context for realtime communications in the network communications environment based on a determination that the real world location of the user is outside a particular physical area that is defined in relation to a current real world location of a communicant other than the user.
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A method, comprising:
- administering realtime communications between network nodes respectively associated with a user and other communicants in a network communications environment;
- receiving real world data comprising one or more attributes defining a physical state of the user;
- applying one or more conditions to the one or more attributes;
- and
- based on results of the applying, terminating the presence of the user in a virtual area defining a context for realtime communications in the network communications environment based on a determination that the real world locations of the user and a communicant other than the user are not physically co-present.
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A method, comprising:
- administering realtime communications between network nodes respective associated with a user and other communicants in a network communications environment;
- receiving real world data comprising one or more attributes defining a physical state of the user;
- applying one or more conditions to the one or more attributes;
- and
- based on results of the applying, terminating the presence of a communicant other than the user in a virtual area defining a context for realtime communications in the network communications environment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.