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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2021
Sococo, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Robert J. Butler, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew Leacock, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Van Wie, Eugene, OR (US);
Paul J. Brody, Palo Alto, CA (US);
F. Randall Farmer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sococo, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods of managing a virtual area based on communicant capabilities are described. The communicant capabilities are updated based on rules in response to events in the virtual area. An action by one communicant can affect the capabilities of another communicant. Communicant capabilities can be stored in respective server-side proxies and the virtual area can be managed without transmitting any of the capabilities to the communicants' client network nodes. Capability-based permissions checks can be performed against communicant capabilities with wildcarded attribute fields.