Patent ID: 8645467

Claim:
A method to conduct a 3-D virtual collaboration session by use of a 3-D server, comprising: selecting, by use of a processor, participants and a meeting location for the 3-D virtual collaboration session; receiving confirmation that a gateway instance has been established by one or more of the selected participants; notifying the 3-D server of the selections of participants and the meeting location; scanning one or more of the selected participants for characteristic information; instructing the 3-D server to start and to load the characteristic information; instructing the 3-D server to take the selected participants to the meeting location and begin the 3-D virtual collaboration session in a 3-D virtual collaboration environment; and when the 3-D virtual collaboration session terminates, teleportinq documents and all related information from the 3-D server to a 2-D server for use by the selected participants in a 2-D federated collaboration environment.