Initiate events through hidden interactions
AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsCyrus Hoomani, John Crocker
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Abstract
System, method, and computer program product to trigger events in a virtual environment, by monitoring a communication in the virtual environment between at least a first user represented by a first avatar and a second user represented by a second avatar, the communication having an explicit meaning to the first and second users, determining whether the communication is predefined as a trigger associated with a corresponding event based on the communication having a secondary meaning not discernible from the explicit meaning, and upon determining that the communication is predefined as the trigger, triggering the corresponding event in the virtual environment.
Claims24
A method to trigger events in a virtual environment, comprising:
- monitoring a communication in the virtual environment between at least a first user represented by a first avatar and a second user represented by a second avatar, the communication having an explicit meaning to the first and second users;
- determining, by operation of one or more computer processors, whether the communication is predefined as a trigger associated with a corresponding event based on the communication having a secondary meaning not discernible from the explicit meaning;
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- upon determining that the communication is predefined as the trigger, triggering the corresponding event in the virtual environment.
A computer program product to trigger events in a virtual environment, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising:
- computer-readable program code configured to monitor a communication in the virtual environment between at least a first user represented by a first avatar and a second user represented by a second avatar, the communication having an explicit meaning to the first and second users;
- computer-readable program code configured to determine whether the communication is predefined as a trigger associated with a corresponding event based on the communication having a secondary meaning not discernible from the explicit meaning;
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- computer-readable program code configured to, upon determining that the communication is predefined as the trigger, triggering the corresponding event in the virtual environment.
A system, comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
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- a memory containing a program, which when executed by the one or more computer processors, performs an operation to trigger events in a virtual environment, the operation comprising:
- monitoring a communication in the virtual environment between at least a first user represented by a first avatar and a second user represented by a second avatar, the communication having an explicit meaning to the first and second users;
- determining whether the communication is predefined as a trigger associated with a corresponding event based on the communication having a secondary meaning not discernible from the explicit meaning;
- and
- upon determining that the communication is predefined as the trigger, triggering the corresponding event in the virtual environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.