Patent ID: 8782263

Claim:
A system configured to manage a single client session in which two or more virtual instances are presented without regard to technologies of the different virtual instances, individual ones of the two or more virtual instances being of a virtual environment or a virtual space, the system comprising: physical memory with computer readable instructions stored thereon; one or more physical processors configured by the computer readable instructions stored on the physical memory to: manage a client session to present virtual instances via a browser, wherein the session management module is further configured to receive a request to load a first virtual instance into the client session; receive authentication information via the browser responsive to the request to load the first virtual instance, and to authenticate a user for the first virtual instance based on the received authentication information, wherein the session management module is further configured to load the first virtual instance into the client session responsive to the user being authenticated for the first virtual instance; receive a request to load a second virtual instance into the client session; to authenticate the user for the second virtual instance based on the received authentication information, wherein the session management module is further configured to load the second virtual instance into the client session responsive to the user being authenticated for the second virtual instance; and provide instance services to virtual instances including the first virtual instance and/or the second virtual instance, the instance services including information associated with the user and/or information associated with a user character controlled by the user.