US 12,271,839 B2
Participant attendance management at events including virtual reality events
Richard Palazzo, Stewartsville, NJ (US); Brian M. Novack, St. Louis, MO (US); Rashmi Palamadai, Naperville, IL (US); Tan Xu, Bridgewater, NJ (US); Eric Zavesky, Austin, TX (US); Ari Craine, Marietta, GA (US); and Robert Koch, Peachtree Corners, GA (US)
Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/541,112.
Prior Publication US 2023/0177416 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/063 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0631 (2013.01) [G06T 11/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor of the system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
creating attendance data describing remote attendance of a first attendee at an event at a first time;
maintaining the attendance data in association with an identifier of the first attendee in a participant registration data store;
presenting a replay of the event to a second attendee at a second time that is later than the first time, the presenting comprising accessing the attendance data in the participant registration data store to determine that the first attendee attended the event at the first time, and representing the first attendee in the replay of the event as attending the event, wherein the first attendee is represented in the replay of the event by an avatar, wherein the avatar is shown with a label identifying the first attendee only in a case that the first attendee is a social media contact of the second attendee, and wherein the label indicates in text form that the first attendee had been an original attendee; and
responsive to receiving input from the first attendee, modifying the attendance data, that corresponds to the first attendee and that is in the participant registration data store, into an encrypted form with a decryption key only known to the first attendee.