Patent ID: 9575625
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04N

Claim:
1. A method performed by an apparatus in a physical space, the method comprising by the apparatus: transmitting a login request to a network service to establish a presence in a virtual area; based on provisioning instructions received from the network service, establishing a communication session with a client network node of a communicant who is copresent with the established presence in the virtual area; based on copresence of the communicant with the established presence, exchanging realtime communications with the client network node in the communications session in a context defined by the virtual area; displaying image content on a physical viewscreen in the physical space, wherein the image content comprises a graphical user interface; sharing images of the displayed image content with the client network node to display in a graphical viewscreen interface in the context defined by the virtual area; receiving data describing communicant input in relation to the shared images from the client network node; based on the received data describing the communicant input, modifying the displaying of the image content on the physical viewscreen.