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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2021
User-definable sound boundaries to regulate audio communication within a virtual collaboration space
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Samuel Charles Mindlin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kunal Jathal, North Hills, CA (US);
Shan Anis, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Budd Lake, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An illustrative collaboration space provider system provides a virtual collaboration experience that allows for audio communication between a plurality of users represented by a plurality of avatars located within a virtual collaboration space. The collaboration space provider system defines, based on user input from a first user included in the plurality of users and represented by a first avatar located within the virtual collaboration space, a sound boundary between a first location of the first avatar within the virtual collaboration space and a second location of a second avatar within the virtual collaboration space. Based on the sound boundary between the first and second locations, the collaboration space provider system then prevents audio communication in at least one direction between the first user and a second user represented by the second avatar. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.