Patent ID: 11960698
Assignee: SOCOCO, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by one or more processors executing one or more program instructions encoded in one or more non-transitory structures, the method comprising:
storing associations between a voiceprint of a communicant and a respective of the communicant;
receiving audio data transmitted by a device co-located in a physical space with the communicant, wherein activities in the physical space are bridged into a virtual area;
matching the received audio data to the communicant based on comparisons of features of the received audio data with the voiceprint;
automatically establishing a presence for the communicant in the virtual area based on the matching;
integrating transduced, human perceptible audio stimulus between the virtual area and the physical space to integrate audio interactions of the communicant between the physical space and the virtual area;
automatically establishing an audio communications channel between the device and the particular virtual area; and
processing the audio data transmitted over the audio communications channel, and tracking utterances of the particular communicant in the physical space based on the processed audio data.