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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2008
Michael Hartman, Galway, IE;
Tony Mccormack, Galway, IE;
Neil O'connor, Galway, IE;
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of representing communications sessions in a virtual environment employs a presentation entity which is provided at a location in the environment where it will be visible and/or audible from the observation point of a user with whom a communications session has been requested. The presentation entity, which can represent a character or an object in the environment, for example, presents information to the user from within the environment. Also disclosed is an automated inhabitant which can operated to interact with other inhabitants of such an environment, obtaining information which is passed to and used by a contact center to queue contacts between such other inhabitants and contact center agents.