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AssigneeActivision Publishing, Inc.
InventorsGakuto Kurata, Tohru Nagano, Michiaki Tatsubori
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A dialog server which provides dialogs made by at least one user through their respective avatars in a virtual space. A method and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing the steps of the method are also provided. The dialog server includes: a position storage unit which stores positional information on the avatars; an utterance receiver which receives at least one utterance of avatars and utterance strength representing an importance or attention level of the utterance; an interest level calculator which calculates interest levels between avatars based on their positional information; a message processor which generates a message based on the utterance in accordance with a value calculated from the interest levels and the utterance strength; and a message transmitter which transmits the message to the avatars.
A method comprising the steps of:
A computer readable article of manufacture comprising a tangible, computer-readable recordable storage medium tangibly embodying, in a non-transitory manner, computer readable instructions which cause at least one hardware processor to execute a method, said method comprising the steps of:
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