IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0229395
(2011-09-09)
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등록번호 |
US-8775595
(2014-07-08)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Leacock, Matthew
- Van Wie, David
- Brody, Paul J.
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출원인 / 주소 |
- Social Communications Company
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
2 인용 특허 :
67 |
초록
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Other communicants in a network communications environment who have relationship ties with a user that satisfy a particular relationship predicate and who are present in a zone of a respective other virtual area that is assigned to the other communicant are determined. Indications of presence of the
Other communicants in a network communications environment who have relationship ties with a user that satisfy a particular relationship predicate and who are present in a zone of a respective other virtual area that is assigned to the other communicant are determined. Indications of presence of the determined other communicants in the zones of the other virtual areas is transmitted to the user. Each virtual area is associated with a respective communicant who is present in the virtual area and has a relationship tie with the user that satisfies a relationship predicate. Responsive to user input referencing a selected virtual area, a request to establish a presence for the user in the selected virtual area is transmitted. Responsive to user input referencing a particular communicant, a request to establish a network communications link between the respective network nodes operated by the user and the particular communicant is transmitted.
대표청구항
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1. A method, comprising: in a network communications environment supporting realtime communications between a user and other communicants operating respective network nodes, determining each of one or more of the other communicants in the network communications environment who has a social network t
1. A method, comprising: in a network communications environment supporting realtime communications between a user and other communicants operating respective network nodes, determining each of one or more of the other communicants in the network communications environment who has a social network tie with the user that satisfies a particular relationship predicate and who is present in a zone of a respective other virtual area that is assigned to the other communicant; andtransmitting to the network node operated by the user a respective indication of presence of each of the determined other communicants in each of the one or more zones of the respective other virtual areas. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein satisfaction of the particular relationship predicate is conditioned on a communicant having social network tie with the user that meets a threshold relationship type level in a hierarchical arrangement of relationship types ordered by strength of relationship. 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering the virtual areas in which the determined communicants are present such that only those virtual areas in which at least two communicants are present are transmitted to the network node operated by the user. 4. A method, comprising: in a network communications environment supporting realtime communications between a user and other communicants operating respective network nodes, receiving a respective indication of presence of each of one or more of the other communicants in the network communications environment who has a social network tie with the user that satisfies a particular relationship predicate and who is present in a zone of a respective other virtual area that is assigned to the other communicant;determining a spatial layout of respective ones of the zones of the other virtual areas; andon a display, displaying the spatial layout of the zones of the respective ones of the other virtual areas. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the determined spatial layout comprises a two-dimensional spatial layout of zones of the respective ones of the other virtual areas. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the zones of each of the respective other virtual areas in the spatial layout are contained within a respective hexagonal tile. 7. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining comprises filtering the other ones of the virtual areas so that each of the respective other virtual areas in the spatial layout has at least one zone in which at least two communicants are co-present. 8. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining comprises filtering the other ones of the virtual areas so that the respective zones of the other virtual areas are associated with one or more target virtual area types. 9. A method, comprising: in a network communications environment supporting realtime communications between a user and other communicants operating respective network nodes, on a display, displaying a spatial layout of virtual areas, wherein each of the virtual areas is associated with a respective one of the other communicants who is present in the virtual area and who has a respective social network tie with the user that satisfies a particular relationship predicate;responsive to input from the user referencing a selected one of the virtual areas, transmitting a request to establish a presence for the user in the selected virtual area; andresponsive to input from the user referencing a particular one of the other communicants, transmitting a request to establish a network communications link between the respective network nodes operated by the user and the particular other communicant. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein each of the virtual areas is partitioned into multiple respective zones each of which is associated with a respective governance rule that is configurable by the associated other communicant and with respect to which the associated other communicant is permitted to have a presence. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the displaying comprises, for each of the virtual areas: on the display, displaying graphic representations of the respective zones of the virtual area; andon the display, showing a respective indication of the presence of the associated other communicant in a particular one of the zones of the virtual area in which the associated other communicant is present, conditioned on the user having a respective social network tie with the associated other communicant that satisfies the respective governance rule that is associated with the particular zone. 12. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the zones is associated with a respective semantic signifier that contextualizes communicant presence in the zone, and the respective indications of the associated other communicants' presences in the particular zones comprises the semantic signifiers that are respectively associated with the particular zones. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein at least one of the semantic signifiers comprises at least one of: a respective textual signifier of an element of a physical environment; and a respective graphical representation of an element of a physical environment. 14. The method of claim 11, wherein at least one of the zones of at least one of the virtual areas comprises a respective prop that is associated with a network service and is activatable by a communicant present in the at least one zone to establish a connection with the network service, and the displaying comprises displaying a graphic representation of the respective prop in the spatial layout. 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the network service is one of: an online content providing service; an online gaming service; an online social networking service; and an online shopping service. 16. The method of claim 14, wherein the displaying comprises, on the display, displaying an indication of activation of the prop in the spatial layout conditioned on satisfaction of the relationship predicate respectively associated with the at least one zone. 17. The method of claim 9, wherein the spatial layout of virtual areas comprises a respective graphic representation of each of the virtual areas arranged according to one or any combination of: strength of social network tie; frequency of interaction between the associated other communicant and the user; and recentness of interaction between the associated other communicant and the user. 18. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying a virtual area associated with the user in the spatial layout of virtual areas. 19. The method of claim 18, wherein the virtual area associated with the user is shown in a central location in the spatial layout and the virtual areas associated with the other communicants are shown in respective locations around the central location in the spatial layout. 20. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed by a computer in a network communications environment supporting realtime communications between a user and other communicants operating respective network nodes to implement a method comprising: on a display, displaying a spatial layout of virtual areas, wherein each of the virtual areas is associated with a respective one of the other communicants who is present in the virtual area and who has a respective social network tie with the user that satisfies a particular relationship predicate;responsive to input from the user referencing a selected one of the virtual areas, transmitting a request to establish a presence for the user in the selected virtual area; andresponsive to input from the user referencing a particular one of the other communicants, transmitting a request to establish a network communications link between the respective network nodes operated by the user and the particular other communicant. 21. The method of claim 1, wherein each social network tie represents a respective social relationship between the user and a respective one of the other communicants. 22. The method of claim 4, wherein each social network tie represents a respective social relationship between the user and a respective one of the other communicants. 23. The method of claim 9, wherein each social network tie represents a respective social relationship between the user and a respective one of the other communicants.
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