Area of interest subscription

• US 10,146,877 B1
• Filed: 08/17/2015
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zolnieryk, Martin Paul, Villalobos, Adam Julio, Stajos, Alexander Neil
• Primary Examiner(s): Bibbee, Jared M
• Application Number:
  US14/827,882
• Time in Patent Office: 1,205 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser

Abstract

Techniques for area of interest subscription are described herein. In some examples, a requestor, such as a client or other component, may be focused on a particular area of interest within a virtual space. A requestor may, for example, provide information indicating its area of interest within the virtual space. This information may then be used to determine one or more sub-spaces that are at least partially included within the area of interest. The requestor may then be subscribed to each sub-space that is at least partially included within the area of interest. When subscribed to a sub-space, object registration information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space may be received from one or more sub-space components that are associated with the sub-space.

Claims

1. A computing system for providing information associated with an area of interest within a virtual space comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memories having stored therein computer instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processors, cause at least the computing system to perform operations comprising;

receiving information indicating the area of interest within the virtual space, wherein the virtual space comprises a plurality of sub-spaces associated with a plurality of sub-space components, the plurality of sub-space components receiving information indicating registration of objects to associated sub-spaces and de-registration of objects from associated sub-spaces;

determining one or more sub-spaces of the virtual space that are at least partially included within the area of interest, wherein the one or more sub-spaces comprise less than all of the plurality of sub-spaces;

for each of the one or more sub-spaces, subscribing to the sub-space to receive, from one or more associated sub-space components, information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space, wherein a first object registers to or de-registers from a first sub-space of the one or more sub-spaces during a course of a subscription to the first sub-space; and

providing, for rendering and display of at least part of the area of interest, object data associated with at least one object that is registered to at least one of the one or more sub-spaces.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space comprises information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space at an initiation of a subscription, one or more objects that register to the sub-space during a course of the subscription, and one or more objects that de-register from the sub-space during the course of the subscription.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an indication of an adjustment to the area of interest within the virtual space; and

performing, based at least in part on the adjustment, at least one of de-subscribing from at least one of the one or more sub-spaces or subscribing to at least one additional sub-space.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein one or more objects within the virtual space each have one or more associated object components, and wherein the object components notify the sub-space components regarding associated objects registering to and deregistering from associated sub-spaces.

5. A method for providing information associated with an area of interest within a virtual space comprising:

receiving information indicating the area of interest within the virtual space, wherein the virtual space comprises a plurality of sub-spaces associated with a plurality of sub-space components, the plurality of sub-space components receiving information indicating registration of objects to associated sub-spaces and de-registration of objects from associated sub-spaces;

determining one or more sub-spaces of the virtual space that are at least partially included within the area of interest, wherein the one or more sub-spaces comprise less than all of the plurality of sub-spaces;

for each of the one or more sub-spaces, subscribing to the sub-space to receive, from one or more associated sub-space components, information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space, wherein a first object registers to or de-registers from a first sub-space of the one or more sub-spaces during a course of a subscription to the first sub-space; and

providing object data associated with at least one object that is registered to at least one of the one or more sub-spaces.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space comprises information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space at an initiation of a subscription, one or more objects that register to the sub-space during a course of the subscription, and one or more objects that de-register from the sub-space during the course of the subscription.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving an indication of an adjustment to the area of interest within the virtual space; and

performing, based at least in part on the adjustment, at least one of de-subscribing from at least one of the one or more sub-spaces or subscribing to at least one additional sub-space.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein one or more objects within the virtual space each have one or more associated object components, and wherein the object components notify the sub-space components regarding associated objects registering to and deregistering from associated sub-spaces.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one of the object components or the sub-space components include actors that maintain state.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the objects are registered to sub-spaces when the objects are at least partially included within the sub-spaces.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving one or more filters indicating one or more object characteristics; and

providing object data associated with each object that is registered to at least one of the one or more sub-spaces and that has at least one of the one or more object characteristics.

12. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

identifying duplicate indications of a single object that is registered to multiple sub-spaces; and

determining to ignore one or more of the duplicate indications in response to the identifying.

13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by one or more compute nodes, cause the one or more compute nodes to perform operations comprising:

receiving information indicating an area of interest within a virtual space, wherein the virtual space comprises a plurality of sub-spaces associated with a plurality of sub-space components, the plurality of sub-space components receiving information indicating registration of objects to associated sub-spaces and de-registration of objects from associated sub-spaces;

determining one or more sub-spaces of the virtual space that are at least partially included within the area of interest, wherein the one or more sub-spaces comprise less than all of the plurality of sub-spaces;

for each of the one or more sub-spaces, subscribing to the sub-space to receive, from one or more associated sub-space components, information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space, wherein a first object registers to or de-registers from a first sub-space of the one or more sub-spaces during a course of a subscription to the first sub-space; and

providing object data associated with at least one object that is registered to at least one of the one or more sub-spaces.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space comprises information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space at an initiation of a subscription, one or more objects that register to the sub-space during a course of the subscription, and one or more objects that de-register from the sub-space during the course of the subscription.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an indication of an adjustment to the area of interest within the virtual space; and

performing, based at least in part on the adjustment, at least one of de-subscribing from at least one of the one or more sub-spaces or subscribing to at least one additional sub-space.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein one or more objects within the virtual space each have one or more associated object components, and wherein the object components notify the sub-space components regarding associated objects registering to and deregistering from associated sub-spaces.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 16, wherein at least one of the object components or the sub-space components include actors that maintain state.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the objects are registered to sub-spaces when the objects are at least partially included within the sub-spaces.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving one or more filters indicating one or more object characteristics; and

providing object data associated with each object that is registered to at least one of the one or more sub-spaces and that has at least one of the one or more object characteristics.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying duplicate indications of a single object that is registered to multiple sub-spaces; and

determining to ignore one or more of the duplicate indications in response to the identifying.