公开(公告)号：US20100169796A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-01

申请号：US12344569

申请日：2008-12-28

申请人： John Chris Lynk ,  Arn Hyndman

发明人： John Chris Lynk ,  Arn Hyndman

IPC分类号： G06F3/14

CPC分类号： A63F13/537 ,  A63F13/10 ,  A63F13/87 ,  A63F2300/306 ,  A63F2300/5553 ,  A63F2300/572 ,  A63F2300/6081 ,  H04L67/38

摘要： A method and apparatus for providing a visual indication of audio context in a computer-generated virtual environment is provided. In one embodiment, visual indicators of which other Avatars are within communication distance of an Avatar may be generated and provided to the user associated with the Avatar. The visual indication may be provided for Avatars within the viewing area regardless of whether the other Avatar is visible or not. The visual indication may be provided for Avatars outside of the viewing area as well. When Avatars are engaged in a communication session, an indication of which Avatars are involved as well as which Avatar is currently speaking may be provided. Context may be user specific and established for each user of the virtual environment based on the location of that user's Avatar within the virtual environment and the relative location of other users' Avatars within the virtual environment.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于在计算机生成的虚拟环境中提供音频上下文的视觉指示的方法和装置。 在一个实施例中，可以生成其他头像在“化身”的通信距离内的视觉指示符，并将其提供给与“阿凡达”相关联的用户。 视觉指示可以提供给观看区域内的头像，而不管其他头像是否可见。 视觉指示也可以在观看区域之外为头像提供。 当化身从事通信会话时，可以提供涉及哪个头像以及当前使用哪个头像的指示。 基于虚拟环境中的该用户的头像的位置以及虚拟环境中的其他用户头像的相对位置，可以为虚拟环境的每个用户建立上下文。

公开(公告)号：US08584026B2

公开(公告)日：2013-11-12

申请号：US12344686

申请日：2008-12-29

申请人： John Chris Lynk ,  Arn Hyndman

发明人： John Chris Lynk ,  Arn Hyndman

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F3/04815 ,  G06F9/453

摘要： When new users are first introduced to virtual environments, the new users may be confused and uncertain as to how to interact with the virtual environment. Several new user orientation features have been added to the virtual environment user interface to help orient new users to the three dimensional computer-generated virtual environment and to prevent the new users from making common mistakes. Example beginning user orientation features include clearly distinguishing when the user is interacting with the virtual environment and when the user is interacting with virtual environment application controls, limiting the vertical field of view of the new user's Avatar to prevent the user from becoming stuck looking straight up or straight down, providing the user with visual feedback when switching between first and third person points of view, and providing the user with clear instructions as to how to control their Avatar and how to reenter the virtual environment.

摘要翻译： 当新用户首次引入虚拟环境时，新用户可能会对如何与虚拟环境进行交互感到困惑和不确定。 已经在虚拟环境用户界面添加了几个新的用户导向功能，以帮助将新用户导向三维计算机生成的虚拟环境，并防止新用户发生常见错误。 开始的用户导向功能的示例包括明确区分用户何时与虚拟环境交互，以及用户在与虚拟环境应用控件进行交互时，限制新用户的头像的垂直视野，以防止用户直视 或直接向下，在第一和第三人之间切换时向用户提供视觉反馈，并向用户提供关于如何控制他们的头像以及如何重新进入虚拟环境的明确指令。

公开(公告)号：US20100169797A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-01

申请号：US12344686

申请日：2008-12-29

申请人： John Chris Lynk ,  Arn Hyndman

发明人： John Chris Lynk ,  Arn Hyndman

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F3/04815 ,  G06F9/453

摘要： When new users are first introduced to virtual environments, the new users may be confused and uncertain as to how to interact with the virtual environment. Several new user orientation features have been added to the virtual environment user interface to help orient new users to the three dimensional computer-generated virtual environment and to prevent the new users from making common mistakes. Example beginning user orientation features include clearly distinguishing when the user is interacting with the virtual environment and when the user is interacting with virtual environment application controls, limiting the vertical field of view of the new user's Avatar to prevent the user from becoming stuck looking straight up or straight down, providing the user with visual feedback when switching between first and third person points of view, and providing the user with clear instructions as to how to control their Avatar and how to reenter the virtual environment.

摘要翻译： 当新用户首次引入虚拟环境时，新用户可能会对如何与虚拟环境进行交互感到困惑和不确定。 已经在虚拟环境用户界面添加了几个新的用户导向功能，以帮助将新用户导向三维计算机生成的虚拟环境，并防止新用户发生常见错误。 开始的用户导向功能的示例包括明确区分用户何时与虚拟环境交互，以及用户在与虚拟环境应用控件进行交互时，限制新用户的头像的垂直视野，以防止用户直视 或直接向下，在第一和第三人之间切换时向用户提供视觉反馈，并向用户提供关于如何控制他们的头像以及如何重新进入虚拟环境的明确指令。

公开(公告)号：US20090240359A1

公开(公告)日：2009-09-24

申请号：US12344542

申请日：2008-12-28

申请人： Arn Hyndman ,  Andrew Lippman ,  Nicholas Sauriol

发明人： Arn Hyndman ,  Andrew Lippman ,  Nicholas Sauriol

IPC分类号： G06F17/00 ,  G06F3/048

CPC分类号： H04L65/4015 ,  H04L67/38 ,  H04M3/42221 ,  H04M2201/22 ,  H04M2203/301

摘要： A participant in a three dimensional computer-generated virtual environment is able to control a dispersion pattern of his Avatar's voice such that the Avatar's voice may be directionally enhanced using simple controls. The audio dispersion envelope is designed to extend further in front of the Avatar and less to the sides and rear of the Avatar. The audio dispersion envelope may be static or controllable by the participant to enable the distance that the Avatar's voice travels within the virtual environment to be adjusted. This enables the Avatar to whisper or “shout” in the virtual environment such that other Avatars normally outside of hearing range of the Avatar may selectively receive audio generated by the user. Separate audio streams are mixed for each user from audio generated by users with Avatars within their Avatar's dispersion envelope. The volume of audio from a user in the mixed audio stream depends on the separation of the Avatars within the virtual environment.

摘要翻译： 三维计算机生成的虚拟环境中的参与者能够控制他的“阿凡达”的声音的色散模式，使得使用简单的控制可以使“阿凡达”的声音定向增强。 音频分散包络被设计为在阿凡达前面进一步扩展，而不是在阿凡达的侧面和后面。 音频分散包络可以由参与者静态或可控，以使得阿凡达的语音在虚拟环境内行进的距离被调整。 这使得阿凡达在虚拟环境中耳语或“呼喊”，使得通常在“阿凡达”听觉范围之外的其他化身可以选择性地接收用户产生的音频。 对于每个用户，独立的音频流与Avatar的分散包络中的Avatars所产生的音频混合。 来自混合音频流中的用户的音频音量取决于虚拟环境中化身的间隔。

公开(公告)号：US20080092215A1

公开(公告)日：2008-04-17

申请号：US11526789

申请日：2006-09-25

申请人： Martin Soukup ,  Albert Reiche ,  Arn Hyndman ,  Hongbo Li

发明人： Martin Soukup ,  Albert Reiche ,  Arn Hyndman ,  Hongbo Li

IPC分类号： H04L9/32

CPC分类号： H04L63/0815

摘要： System and method for transparent single sign-on authentication on computers in a networked environment. A preferred embodiment comprises receiving an authentication request from an operating system of a first computer, requesting credentials of an application making the authentication request, authenticating the credentials, storing the credentials if the authentication is successful, and transmitting the credentials to a second computer. On subsequent access requests made by the user on the second computer, the credentials can be retrieved from the secure store, eliminating the need to prompt the user to re-enter authentication information.

摘要翻译： 在网络环境中的计算机上进行透明单点登录认证的系统和方法。 优选实施例包括从第一计算机的操作系统接收认证请求，请求进行认证请求的应用的凭证，认证凭证，如果认证成功则存储凭证，以及将证书发送到第二计算机。 在用户在第二计算机上进行的后续访问请求时，可以从安全存储器检索凭证，从而不需要提示用户重新输入认证信息。

公开(公告)号：US09176579B2

公开(公告)日：2015-11-03

申请号：US12345376

申请日：2008-12-29

申请人： Arn Hyndman ,  Nicholas Sauriol

发明人： Arn Hyndman ,  Nicholas Sauriol

IPC分类号： G06F3/048 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/30 ,  G06F3/0481

CPC分类号： A63F13/537 ,  A63F13/12 ,  A63F13/71 ,  A63F13/79 ,  A63F2300/305 ,  A63F2300/5546 ,  A63F2300/5553 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06F3/04817

摘要： Users create profiles containing their interests, professional qualifications, and/or personal information. When users encounter each other in the virtual environment, the information contained in the personal profiles is used to provide visual indications of the profile information so that other users know some modicum of information about the user associated with the Avatar. The user associated with the personal profile may control what information is provided publicly and what information is provided privately. Information in other users' profiles may be filtered to enable relevant information to be presented to the user. Filtering may be explicit and based on user-defined criteria. Filtering may be inherent as well and implemented to select visual indications based on similarities between the user's profile information and the other users' profile information. Inherent matching of attributes may be exact, based on pre-defined similarities or groups, or based on learned similarities between types of attributes, or based on previous interactions of the user with other users in the virtual environment.

摘要翻译： 用户创建包含他们的兴趣，专业资格和/或个人信息的资料。 当用户在虚拟环境中彼此相遇时，个人资料中包含的信息用于提供个人资料信息的视觉指示，以便其他用户了解有关与“阿凡达”相关联的用户的一些信息。 与个人资料相关联的用户可以控制公开提供的信息以及私人提供哪些信息。 可以对其他用户的配置文件中的信息进行过滤，以使相关信息能够呈现给用户。 过滤可能是明确的，并且基于用户定义的标准。 滤波也可以是固有的，并且被实现为基于用户的简档信息和其他用户的简档信息之间的相似性来选择视觉指示。 属性的固有匹配可以基于预定义的相似性或组，或者基于在属性类型之间的学习相似性，或者基于用户与虚拟环境中的其他用户的先前交互来精确地进行。

公开(公告)号：US09064023B2

公开(公告)日：2015-06-23

申请号：US12345092

申请日：2008-12-29

申请人： Arn Hyndman

发明人： Arn Hyndman

IPC分类号： G06F3/048 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F3/0481

CPC分类号： G06F17/30882 ,  G06F3/04815 ,  G06F17/30887 ,  G06F2203/04804

摘要： Information URLs may be associated with three dimensional objects in a three dimensional virtual environment. When a URL is selected, an overlay web rendering engine renders a web page associated with the URL over the object in the three dimensional virtual environment. The web page may include rich content, interactive content, or any other type of web content supported by the user's local browser and browser plugging. The user may interact with the content in the overlay web rendering engine to obtain successive layers of content or to affect the object in the virtual environment. The web page is rendered with a transparent background so that the three dimensional content of the virtual environment continues to be visible through the web page and provides context for the overlayed content. Information URLs may be used to provide information about objects, Avatars, or the virtual environment itself.

摘要翻译： 信息URL可以与三维虚拟环境中的三维对象相关联。 当选择URL时，覆盖网络呈现引擎在三维虚拟环境中呈现与URL对应的网页相对应的对象。 网页可以包括丰富的内容，交互式内容或用户本地浏览器和浏览器插件支持的任何其他类型的网页内容。 用户可以与覆盖网络呈现引擎中的内容交互以获得连续的内容层或者影响虚拟环境中的对象。 该网页以透明背景呈现，使得虚拟环境的三维内容通过网页继续可见，并为覆盖的内容提供上下文。 信息URL可用于提供有关对象，头像或虚拟环境本身的信息。

公开(公告)号：US08762861B2

公开(公告)日：2014-06-24

申请号：US12344562

申请日：2008-12-28

申请人： Arn Hyndman ,  Nicholas Sauriol ,  Christopher Andrew Hatko

发明人： Arn Hyndman ,  Nicholas Sauriol ,  Christopher Andrew Hatko

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F9/542 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G06F2209/545

摘要： Interaction with web content in a web browser can control actions in an embedded virtual environment, and events in the virtual environment can be used to update content and applications running in the web browser. In one embodiment, particular events in the virtual environment are passed to a mapping component that listens for triggers and issues commands in the web browser. A JavaScript mapping component may be used to listen for the triggers, capture parameters associated with the trigger, lookup the trigger type in a mapping table, and call a mapped JavaScript function with the trigger parameters. In the reverse direction, if a JavaScript function call is entered in the web browser, the JavaScript function invokes a function exposed by a virtual environment plugin. The plug-in invokes an event within the virtual environment so that interaction with the web content can control actions in the virtual environment.

摘要翻译： 与Web浏览器中的Web内容交互可以控制嵌入式虚拟环境中的操作，虚拟环境中的事件可用于更新在Web浏览器中运行的内容和应用程序。 在一个实施例中，虚拟环境中的特定事件被传递到监视触发器并在web浏览器中发出命令的映射组件。 可以使用JavaScript映射组件监听触发器，捕获与触发相关的参数，在映射表中查找触发器类型，并使用触发器参数调用映射的JavaScript函数。 在相反的方向，如果在Web浏览器中输入JavaScript函数调用，JavaScript函数将调用虚拟环境插件公开的函数。 插件调用虚拟环境中的事件，以便与Web内容的交互可以控制虚拟环境中的操作。

公开(公告)号：US08243903B1

公开(公告)日：2012-08-14

申请号：US12344474

申请日：2008-12-27

申请人： Arn Hyndman

发明人： Arn Hyndman

IPC分类号： H04M3/42

CPC分类号： H04M3/568

摘要： A separate peer-to-peer multi-directional audio channel is established between a subset of the participants to an existing multi-party communication session on the same channel as the original multi-party communication session. Since the secure channel is established on the existing call, the same NAT/firewall traversal mechanisms may be used, and even the same socket may be used. Participants on the secure side conversation can hear both the secure side conversation and the main multi-party communication session. Participants that are not on the secure side conversation may receive packets from the secure side conversation, but are not part of the security association for the secure side conversation and, hence, cannot hear the audio from the secure side conversation.

摘要翻译： 在参与者的子集之间建立分离的对等多方向音频信道到与原始多方通信会话相同信道上的现有多方通信会话。 由于在现有呼叫上建立安全通道，因此可以使用相同的NAT /防火墙穿越机制，甚至可以使用相同的套接字。 安全侧对话的参与者可以听到安全侧对话和主要的多方通信会话。 不在安全侧对话的参与者可以从安全侧对话接收分组，但不是用于安全侧对话的安全关联的一部分，因此听不到来自安全侧对话的音频。

公开(公告)号：US20120059880A1

公开(公告)日：2012-03-08

申请号：US13295176

申请日：2011-11-14

申请人： Dany Sylvain ,  Nicholas Sauriol ,  Arn Hyndman

发明人： Dany Sylvain ,  Nicholas Sauriol ,  Arn Hyndman

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： A63F13/87 ,  A63F13/215 ,  A63F2300/572 ,  H04L67/38

摘要： A method and apparatus for managing communication between participants in a virtual environment enables the participants to elect to automatically connect with each other via a preferred communication mechanism, manually connect with each other, or choose not to connect with each other. The connection may be point-to-point between two participants or may include multiple participants. Establishment of a connection, or the ability to establish a connection, may be based on the proximity of the participants, or the Avatars representing the participants, in the virtual environment. Once the connection is established, the connection may be managed so that the connection is maintained while the Avatars remain proximate each other and is automatically severed once the Avatars move away from each other. Environmental noise and other audio aspects may be included in the connection to simulate a real-world conversation.

摘要翻译： 用于管理虚拟环境中的参与者之间的通信的方法和装置使参与者能够通过优选的通信机制选择彼此自动连接，彼此手动连接或者选择不彼此连接。 该连接可以是两个参与者之间的点到点，或者可以包括多个参与者。 建立连接或建立连接的能力可以基于虚拟环境中参与者或代表参与者的化身的距离。 一旦建立连接，可以管理连接，使得维护连接，而化身保持彼此靠近，并且一旦头像彼此远离就自动切断。 环境噪声和其他音频方面可能包含在连接中以模拟真实世界的对话。