Cross-Experience Immersive Communication in a Virtual Environment
PATENT
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App Num: US19/318,783
File Date: 2025-09-04
Pub Date: 2026-03-05
Pub Num: US20260067340A1
Assignee: Roblox Corporation
Inventors: Zatorski, Lukasz ; Lapchuk, Dmytro ; Bacon, John ; Nealer, Bryan ; Babarik, Jan ; Liang, Brian ; Katz, Alex; Covarrubias Gomez, Alberto
IPC: H04L 65/1069 ; H04L 65/75
CPC: H04L 65/1069
Abstract
Methods, computer-readable media, and systems provide cross-experience communication in a virtual environment, including receiving a request from a requesting user in a first virtual experience to form a communication session with a receiving user in a second virtual experience; verifying a permission for the requesting user; in response to successfully verifying the permission: reserving a platform instance to coordinate forming the communication session; notifying the receiving user about the communication session; receiving a notification from the receiving user accepting the communication session; notifying the requesting user that the communication session was accepted; starting a designated data model to host the communication session; and forming the communication session between the requesting user and the receiving user using the designated data model and the platform instance, the designated data model having access to a subset of information in a data model associated with the receiving user related to the communication session.