A survey of peer-to-peer overlay approaches for networked virtual environments

E Buyukkaya, M Abdallah, G Simon - Peer-to-peer networking and …, 2015 - Springer
This paper identifies and analyzes the key design approaches that have been proposed
over the last decade to construct a peer-to-peer (P2P) networked virtual environment (NVE) …

Mirror world: creating digital twins of the space and persons from video streamings

L Jiang, L Cai, W Wu, Z Zhou - The Visual Computer, 2024 - Springer
Creating digital twins of scenes has been widely studied in smart city applications. The
development of 3D virtual games attracts many researchers. However, most products have …

Message propagation in a distributed virtual world

K Kandekar, RJ Walsh - US Patent 8,135,018, 2012 - Google Patents
(*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this EP O 614 139 A2 9, 1994 patent is
extended or adjusted under 35(Continued) USC 154 (b) by 1236 days. This patent is …

Prioritizing virtual object downloads in a distributed virtual environment

K Kandekar, RJ Walsh - US Patent 8,126,985, 2012 - Google Patents
As a client connects to a peer in a distributed virtual environ ment, the peer provides the
client with virtual objects that are relevant to the client so that the virtual objects can be …

Semantic overlay network for large-scale spatial information indexing

Z Zou, Y Wang, K Cao, T Qu, Z Wang - Computers & geosciences, 2013 - Elsevier
The increased demand for online services of spatial information poses new challenges to
the combined filed of Computer Science and Geographic Information Science. Amongst …

Group licenses for virtual objects in a distributed virtual world

J Evans, RJ Walsh - US Patent 8,433,656, 2013 - Google Patents
WIRTUAL SPACE a number of distributed virtual world servers hosts a cell, or virtual space,
of the virtual world. In operation, a first virtual world server categorizes virtual objects into a …

Facilitating object searches in virtual worlds

S Branca, P Cavazza - US Patent 8,812,475, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A mechanism is provided for facilitating object search in a virtual world
environment where each object is defined by a plurality of attributes and the search is …

Message propagation in a distributed virtual world

K Kandekar, RJ Walsh - US Patent 8,750,313, 2014 - Google Patents
A message propagation scheme for a distributed virtual world is provided. In general, each
of a number of peer servers hosts a cell of the virtual world, where the cell is also referred to …

Method and system for grou** user devices based on dual proximity

K Kandekar, RJ Walsh - US Patent 8,260,873, 2012 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method and system for grou** user devices based on dual proximity.
Avatars in a virtual environment are determined to be in virtual world proximity of one …

Methods for providing peer negotiation in a distributed virtual environment and related systems and computer program products

J Evans, K Kandekar, R Walsh - US Patent 8,116,323, 2012 - Google Patents
US8116323B1 - Methods for providing peer negotiation in a distributed virtual environment
and related systems and computer program products - Google Patents US8116323B1 …