Patent ID: 9124662
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: displaying a graphical user interface comprising a graphical representation of a virtual area that supports establishment of respective presences of communicants operating respective client network nodes, a graphical representation of each of the communicants who is present in the virtual area, and a graphical representation of an object associated with the virtual area, wherein the object has a configurable uniform resource identifier (URI) property that enables a communicant who is present in the virtual area to associate the object with a URI of a network resource associated with data; requesting a configuration of the configurable URI property of the object to create between the object and a particular URI of a particular network resource a persistent association that is maintained across communication sessions in the virtual area to provide communicants with automatic access to the particular network resource upon entry in the virtual area; retrieving data from the particular URI based on communicant input received in connection with the graphical representation of the object; displaying a graphical representation of the retrieved data in the graphical user interface; and sharing the displayed graphical representation of the retrieved data with one or more respective client network nodes of one or more of the communicants who are present in the virtual area.