Patent ID: 11902766
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
providing, by a collaboration space provider system, a virtual collaboration session that allows for audio communication between a user and one or more other users virtually located within a virtual collaboration space, the user represented by an avatar located at an avatar location within the virtual collaboration space;
receiving, by the collaboration space provider system from the user, user input representative of a voice origination location that is within the virtual collaboration space and is distinct from the avatar location; and
simulating, by the collaboration space provider system during the virtual collaboration session, propagation within the virtual collaboration space of a voice communication spoken by the user, the propagation of the voice communication simulated to originate from the voice origination location and not from the avatar location.