REACTIVE AVATARS

Patent №

US 7,484,176

Granted

2009-01-27

Filed 2003

Owner

AMERICA ONLINE, INC.

Lab

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.

PlanningG06T 13/40H04L 51/043H04L 51/046G09G 5/14

AI classification

Planning1.00
Speech0.15
Machine learning0.08
Knowledge representation0.02
Natural language0.01
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

AMERICA ONLINE, INC.

assignment · 147120026

Assignors

BLATTNER, PATRICK D., ROBINSON, JOHN D.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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