18375712. SIMULTANEOUS RENDERING OF MULTIPLE AVATARS (International Business Machines Corporation)
SIMULTANEOUS RENDERING OF MULTIPLE AVATARS
Organization Name
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventor(s)
Charan Acharya Chandrashekar of Bangalore IN
Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy of Pune IN
Zachary A. Silverstein of Georgetown TX US
SIMULTANEOUS RENDERING OF MULTIPLE AVATARS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18375712 titled 'SIMULTANEOUS RENDERING OF MULTIPLE AVATARS
Original Abstract Submitted
Requests are received from viewing users for rendering a virtual world in a computing environment that mimics real world, where at least one user appears in the virtual world. For each of the viewing users, a processor determines a group to which a viewing user belongs, determines a virtual representation of the at least one user that is mapped to the group, and renders the virtual representation of the at least one user in the virtual world to a device associated with the viewing user. Based on the determined mapping of the group to the virtual representation, the virtual representation of the at least one user rendered on the device associated with the viewing user appears at the same time differently from the virtual representation of the at least one user rendered on another device associated with another viewing user among the viewing users.