Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention may permit retrieving and presenting media resources and/or providing online chat functionality. The embodiment may include a communication toolbar. The communication toolbar may be an interactive user tool that allows a user to retrieve and display document and media files, website/pages links, and/or conference links. The communication toolbar may also aid users in facilitating an on-line chat between one another. Another embodiment of the present invention takes the form of a media retrieval and display module that may show any and all retrieved search results to the user. Each search result may include a text description of the media record file, such as a title, a link to the media record file and a time bar associated with the media record file. The time bar may include at last one graphic indicator corresponding to a time in the media file where the search term is used.

Abstract: A virtual space and apparatus for constructing, displaying, and interacting with the virtual space. The virtual space may take the form of a tradeshow, complete with exhibit booths, video screens, a convention hall and so forth. In such an exemplary virtual space, the user may navigate between booths, displays, halls and so on. Navigation may be displayed as three-dimensional movement on a two-dimensional display, and may be rendered as real-time motion between booths controlled by the user or as short movies or “cutscenes” showing the motion from one booth (or other point of interest) to another booth (or point of interest). A door is a point or portion of the virtual space that may be accessed or interacted with in order to leave a booth, initiate a transition movie or travel between two parts or segments of the virtual space.