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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:
Dec. 30, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 29, 2013
Applicant:

Yp Interactive Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);

Inventors:

Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ben Harris Lyon, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul G. Manca, Oakland, CA (US);

Sean Van der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);

Virginia Hong-Jia Yang, Foster City, CA (US);

Assignee:

YP Interactive LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/157 (2013.01); G06Q 30/2041 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for connecting people for real time communications via a virtual reality environment. One embodiment includes: receiving a call for a real time communication session at a virtual object presented in a virtual reality world; indicating to a plurality of residents of the virtual reality world that the virtual object is being called; and responsive to an input from one resident of the plurality of residents, connecting the call to the resident for a real time communication session.


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