System and method for item inquiry and information presentation via standard communication paths
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsVittorio Castelli, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Brian M. O'Connell, Clifford A. Pickover, Keith R. Walker
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for item inquiry and information presentation via standard communication paths. More particularly, the method and system detects an item associated with an avatar of a virtual universe (VU) user in a VU and determine information associated with the item. Additionally, the method and system are operable to display the information in the VU in a high-resolution component of the VU.
Claims25
A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium, comprising:
- detecting an item associated with an avatar of a virtual universe (VU) user in a VU;
- determining information associated with the item;
- and
- displaying the information in the VU in a high-resolution component of the VU.
A system, comprising:
- a virtual universe (VU) monitoring tool configured to detect an item associated with an avatar of a VU user in a VU and determine promotional information associated with the item;
- and
- a display tool configured to display the promotional information in the VU in a high-resolution component of the VU.
A computer program product comprising a computer usable storage medium having readable program code embodied in the storage medium, the computer program product includes at least one component operable to:
- detect an item associated with an avatar of a virtual universe (VU) user in a VU;
- determine if the avatar is currently using the item;
- determine information associated with the item;
- and
- display the information in the VU in a high-resolution component of the VU, wherein the item associated with an avatar is an item contained in the user's inventory.
A method comprising:
- providing a computer infrastructure operable to:
- detect an item associated with an avatar of a virtual universe (VU) user in a VU;
- determine information associated with the item;
- and
- display the information in the VU in a high-resolution component of the VU, wherein the high-resolution component of the VU comprises at least one of:
- a chat window;
- a bubble window;
- a graphical user interface (GUI) status bar;
- a GUI title bar;
- a map window;
- and
- an audio output device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.