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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2022
Applicant:

Sococo, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventor:

David Van Wie, Eugene, OR (US);

Assignee:

Sococo, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04815 (2022.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2024.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04L 51/043 (2022.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); H04L 51/18 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/18 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01); G10L 2015/225 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples of systems and methods for voice-based navigation in one or more virtual areas that define respective persistent virtual communication contexts are described. These examples enable communicants to use voice commands to, for example, search for communication opportunities in the different virtual communication contexts, enter specific ones of the virtual communication contexts, and bring other communicants into specific ones of the virtual communication contexts. In this way, these examples allow communicants to exploit the communication opportunities that are available in virtual areas, even when hands-based or visual methods of interfacing with the virtual areas are not available.


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