Patent ID: 9498727
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for pre-fetching items in a virtual universe (VU) in a network based on avatar communications, comprising: analyzing, by at least one computing device, a set of words in the avatar communications between a set of avatars in the VU in the network; extracting, by at least one computing device, a subset of words from the set of words based on the analysis; ranking, by at least one computing device, each word of the subset of words based on a frequency, a recency, and a relevance of the subset of words as used in the communications; and calculating, by at least one computing device, a relative priority of the each word of the subset of words based on a calculation comprising subtracting the recency from a sum of the frequency and the relevance.