Patent ID: 8375085

Claim:
A method for moderating the teleportation of a federated collaboration session to a 3-D virtual collaboration session, comprising: launching teleportation services in a federation server for facilitating a 2-D federated collaboration environment for the at least one set of participants; instructing the federation server to load gateway instance in a moderator client; selecting participants and meeting location for teleportation; notifying the federation server of the selections of participants and meeting location; instructing the federation server to launch gateway instances to every participant; scanning the participants for characteristic information; instructing a 3-D server to start and to load the characteristic information; instructing the 3-D server to take participants to 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, teleporting documents and things from the 3-D server to the federation server for use by the participants in the 2-D federated collaboration environment.