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Virtual universe teleportation suggestion service

  • US 8,671,349 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2008
  • Issued: 03/11/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented system including a computing device configured to suggest teleportation locations within a virtual universe, comprising:

  • a suggestion generation service that determines a set of teleportation suggestions for a requesting avatar based on a social network analysis of the avatar that identifies each avatar with whom the requesting avatar has communicated for more than a first predefined period within a second predefined period, determines which of the identified avatars most closely match the requesting avatar responsive to an analysis of at least an inventory of each identified avatar, analyzes previous teleportation activities of the avatars that match the requesting avatar most closely, and selects sites to which the requesting avatar has not traveled as the set of teleportation suggestions;

    a triggering system for launching the suggestion generation service; and

    a system for outputting the set of teleportation suggestions.

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