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Communicating between a virtual area and a physical space

  • US 9,575,625 B2
  • Filed: 11/02/2015
  • Issued: 02/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed by an apparatus in a physical space, the method comprising by the apparatus:

  • transmitting a login request to a network service to establish a presence in a virtual area;

    based on provisioning instructions received from the network service, establishing a communication session with a client network node of a communicant who is copresent with the established presence in the virtual area;

    based on copresence of the communicant with the established presence, exchanging realtime communications with the client network node in the communications session in a context defined by the virtual area;

    displaying image content on a physical viewscreen in the physical space, wherein the image content comprises a graphical user interface;

    sharing images of the displayed image content with the client network node to display in a graphical viewscreen interface in the context defined by the virtual area;

    receiving data describing communicant input in relation to the shared images from the client network node;

    based on the received data describing the communicant input, modifying the displaying of the image content on the physical viewscreen.

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