Patent ID: 8751580

Claim:
A real-time communication and Information collaboration system including: one or more user accounts, the one or more user accounts being associated with respective one or more users, the user's account being administered by the user to control aspects of client collaboration formation; one or more client devices for participating in the client collaboration, such that client device interaction is controlled in an agent collaboration though an active affiliation that appears in the client collaboration as a participant, whereby an active affiliation is associated with the user's account and provides one or more connections and one or more affiliations; an agent device wherein agent collaboration aware client devices connect to the agent device, and one or more agent devices participate in one or more agent collaborations wherein the agent collaboration is a virtual environment in which the one or more users participate in client collaborations with the one or more client devices providing a physical environment which is implemented as a network of one or more agent collaboration agent devices; and wherein media profiles facilitate communication between the agent collaboration and the client devices such that each client device interfaces with at least one media profile before connecting to an agent collaboration through a user's account and each media profile identifies a known set of interaction parameters forming a medium, composed of one or more enabling constraints to allow the agent collaboration whereby the media profile allows a collaboration's media-specific behaviour to be reflected in the agent device.