ARCHITECTURE FOR TELECONFERENCING WITH VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION

摘要

A communications system includes a teleconferencing system for hosting teleconferences, and a server system for providing a virtual representation for the teleconferencing system. The virtual representation includes objects whose states can be commanded to transition gradually. The server system provides clients to client devices, and each client causes its client device to display the virtual representation. Each client device is capable of generating a command for gradually transitioning an object to a new state in the virtual representation and sending the command to the server system. The server system commands the clients to transition an object to its new state by a specified time.