Patent ID: 7890638
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A gateway system adapted to establish interactive sessions between a real world environment and a virtual world environment, the gateway system comprising: a real world interface adapted to receive a signaling message from a communication network of a real world user in the real world environment to initiate an interactive session with a virtual world user in the virtual world environment, wherein the real world user is not logged into the virtual world environment; a processing system adapted to process the signaling message to identify a virtual world identifier assigned to the virtual world user in the virtual world environment, and to convert the signaling message to a communication request message in a protocol used in the virtual world environment; and a virtual world interface adapted to transmit the communication request message to the virtual world user based on the virtual world identifier to establish the session between the virtual world user and the real world user; wherein a conversation for the session is through the virtual world environment from the standpoint of the virtual world user and is through the real world environment from the standpoint of the real world user.