Method for translucent online interaction

US6970931B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Rachel K. E. Bellamy · Bedford, US
• Jason B. Ellis · New York, US
• Thomas D. Erickson · Minneapolis, US
• Wendy A. Kellogg · Hawthorne, US
• Mark Richard Laff · Mount Kisco, US
• Peter K. Malkin · Yorktown Heights, US
• John T. Richards · Honeoye Falls, US
• Philip Yu · Chappaqua, US
• Tracee L. Wolf · Ossining, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 14, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 29, 2005
• Expiry date: May 4, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99939
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for representing users within an online environment. The method allows users to define environmental parameters for controlling user interaction, define user representation parameters of user data within the environment, capture user data from the users, build an abstract graphical display of the environment, and build a user representation within the abstract graphical display for each user's data.