Patent ID: 6738807
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A virtual space communication system, comprising:a virtual space management computer to manage information representing a virtual space that has objects with states; a plurality of client computers each to receive the information representing the virtual space from said virtual space management computer, and to generate change request messages representing client changes to the states of the objects in the information that the clients received from the management computer, each of said plurality of client computers having an object state changing means for changing the states of the objects in the information received from the virtual space management computer; a communication management computer to transfer, to both the clients and the virtual space management computer, the change request messages generated by the clients, where the communication management computer transfers responsive to receiving the messages from the clients; and changing means for changing the information managed by said virtual space management computer based on changes to the states of the objects, said virtual space management computer and said communication management computer being coupled via a network, so that the states of the objects managed at the virtual space management computer are changed by the changing means of the virtual space management computer responsive to and after said communication management computer receives the change request messages from the client computers and transfers them to said virtual space management computer.