Catherine B Clinch

US Patent:

8565387, Oct 22, 2013

Filed:

Jun 18, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/819026

Inventors:

Catherine B. Clinch - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

H04M 11/00

US Classification:

379 8813, 463 43, 4554141

Abstract:

A method of delivering a story for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, includes the steps of recording onto a memory device a series of calls by multiple persons who pretend to be friends of a user recipient; making calls using the recorded calls in a predetermined sequence to a user recipient and preferably displaying; telling a story in the first person perspective from multiple points of view by means of the calls; and doing everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real. A system for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, having a memory for storing a series of calls by multiple persons who pretend to be friends of a user recipient; a mechanism for communicating with the memory for making calls using the recorded calls in a predetermined sequence to the user recipient; a mechanism for receiving the series of calls, wherein the series of calls tell a story in the first person perspective from multiple points of view; and the calls simulate everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real.