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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2017
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventor:
Gary Munson, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); A63F 13/40 (2014.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/18 (2013.01); A63F 13/10 (2013.01); A63F 13/12 (2013.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 13/87 (2014.09); G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 65/1083 (2013.01); H04L 67/38 (2013.01); A63F 2300/205 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5533 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5553 (2013.01); A63F 2300/572 (2013.01); A63F 2300/8082 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for providing unified location and presence information of and intercommunication among a plurality of networked users is disclosed, where the users may be real world people or virtual world personae. Generally, after receiving data representative of a first and second user's presence or location in the real or a virtual world over a communications network, the users are permitted to view each other's presence in a virtual network. The users are identified by endpoint addresses, and may intercommunicate using various types of media via the communications network.