Patent №
US 7,484,176
Granted
2009-01-27
Filed 2003
Owner
AMERICA ONLINE, INC.
Lab
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AI components
1
planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
10747701
Avatars are used to graphically represent users in a communications session, and the avatars are capable of being animated. An indication of an animation of one of the avatars is received. Another avatar that represents another of the users is animated in response to, and based on, the animation of the avatar in the same communications session.
AI classification
Ownership
AMERICA ONLINE, INC.
assignment · 147120026
Assignors
BLATTNER, PATRICK D., ROBINSON, JOHN D.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.