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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2023
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Rebecca A. Little, Mesa, AZ (US);
Bryan R. Nussbaum, Bloomington, IL (US);
Deanna L. Stockweather, Normal, IL (US);
Jacob Simonson, Tempe, AZ (US);
An Ho, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Vicki King, Bloomington, IL (US);
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for facilitating virtual collaboration between users within virtual environments are disclosed. A plurality of users access a collaborative virtual environment system at various times using interface devices to establish an asynchronous virtual collaboration session in which users collaborate in real-time and/or asynchronously. To enable asynchronous collaboration, data from virtual collaboration session is stored and presented to later users, including user movements and interactions with the environment, user annotation, and audio communications or comments. Other users may then access the data at a later time, and later user interactions, annotations, and audio may likewise be stored for further review by other users.