Managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRick A. Hamilton, II, Brian M. O'Connell, Clifford A. Pickover, Anne R. Sand, Keith R. Walker
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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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A system for advertising in a virtual universe (VU), comprising causing a computer infrastructure to:
- render an ephemeral location in the VU by creating a mapping between a VU grid of the VU and the 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;
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- un-render the ephemeral location to cause the ephemeral location to disappear from the VU.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.