Managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe
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1. A method for advertising in a virtual universe (VU), comprising:
- providing a computer infrastructure structured and arranged to;
render an ephemeral location in the VU;
update a state table regarding information associated with the rendered ephemeral location;
transport a user avatar from the VU grid to the ephemeral location;
present a VU-ad to the user at the ephemeral location;
transport the user avatar from the ephemeral location back to the VU grid;
un-render the ephemeral location to cause the ephemeral location to disappear from the VU; and
update the state table to indicate that the ephemeral location has been un-rendered.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for advertising, and, more particularly, systems and methods for managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe. A method for managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe (VU) includes causing a computer infrastructure to: render an ephemeral location upon a triggering in the VU; teleport a VU user avatar to the ephemeral location; permit the user avatar to interact in the ephemeral location; teleport the user avatar out of the ephemeral location; and un-render the ephemeral location.
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1. A method for advertising in a virtual universe (VU), comprising:
providing a computer infrastructure structured and arranged to; render an ephemeral location in the VU; update a state table regarding information associated with the rendered ephemeral location; transport a user avatar from the VU grid to the ephemeral location; present a VU-ad to the user at the ephemeral location; transport the user avatar from the ephemeral location back to the VU grid; un-render the ephemeral location to cause the ephemeral location to disappear from the VU; and update the state table to indicate that the ephemeral location has been un-rendered. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14)
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8. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program embodied in the medium, the computer usable medium being an apparatus that stores the computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computing device is operable to cause the computing device to:
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render an ephemeral location in a virtual universe (VU); update a state table regarding information associated with the rendered ephemeral location; teleport a user avatar of the user from a VU grid location to the ephemeral location, permit the user avatar to interact in the ephemeral location; un-render the ephemeral location to cause the ephemeral location to disappear from the VU; and update the state table to indicate that the ephemeral location has been un-rendered. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16)
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