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Multiple users share a virtual environment through an interactive software application. State changes of a specific user are transmitted to one or more other users dependent on respective relative distances in the virtual environment between the specific user and each respective one of the other use

Multiple users share a virtual environment through an interactive software application. State changes of a specific user are transmitted to one or more other users dependent on respective relative distances in the virtual environment between the specific user and each respective one of the other users. This conditional transmission reduces message traffic and allows a virtual environment to scale indefinitely.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A method of processing a software application enabling interaction among multiple users sharing a virtual environment via an interconnecting network, the method comprising:for each specific one of the users transmitting a change of a state of the application, associated with the spe

[ I claim:] [1.] A method of processing a software application enabling interaction among multiple users sharing a virtual environment via an interconnecting network, the method comprising:for each specific one of the users transmitting a change of a state of the application, associated with the specific user, to one or more other users dependent on respective relative distances in the virtual environment between the specific user and each respective one of the other users.