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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsChristopher J. Dawson, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Brian M. O'Connell, Clifford A. Pickover, Keith R. Walker
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A system and method in a virtual universe (VU) system for identifying spam avatars based upon the avatars' multimedia characteristics may have a table that stores multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars. It further may have an analysis unit that compares the multimedia characteristics of avatars against the multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars to determine if the avatar has known spam avatar characteristics. It may further have a scoring system to calculate a spam score based upon the similarities of the comparison and identifying the avatar as a spam avatar based upon the calculated spam score. It may further compare the calculated spam score with a spam score threshold wherein the avatar is identified as a spam avatar if the calculated spam score is equal to or greater than the calculated spam score. Multimedia characteristics include graphics, audio, movement, interactivity, voice, etc.
A method in a virtual universe (VU) system for identifying spam avatars, the VU system comprising one or more avatars, wherein at least one of the one or more avatars has multimedia characteristics, wherein at least one of the one or more avatars is a spam avatar, the VU system having memory that stores multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars, the method for identifying spam avatars comprising:
A spam avatar identification system in a virtual universe (VU) for identifying spam avatars, the VU comprising one or more avatars that each have multimedia characteristics, wherein at least one of the avatars is a spam avatar, the spam avatar identification system comprising:
A computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium for operating in a system comprising a network I/O, a CPU, and one or more databases, for implementing a method in a virtual universe (VU) system for identifying spam avatars, the VU system comprising one or more avatars that each have multimedia characteristics, wherein at least one of the avatars is a spam avatar, the VU system having memory that stores multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars, the method for identifying spam avatars comprising the steps of:
A method for deploying a computer infrastructure in a virtual universe (VU) for managing spam avatars, the VU having one or more avatars, at least one of the avatars being a spam avatar and at least one of the avatars has multimedia characteristics, the method comprising integrating computer-readable code into a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system is capable of performing a process of identifying spam avatars, the process comprising:
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