Patent ID: 9289681
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for suggesting actions in a virtual environment, comprising: monitoring a first user interacting with the virtual environment; generating one or more records associated with a plurality of actions performed by the first user in a search index, wherein each record stores characteristics associated with the first user; in response to detecting a triggering event, determining, based on characteristics of at least one previous action of the first user within the virtual environment, one or more suggested actions available to the first user; and presenting the determined one or more suggested actions to the first user in a visual display of the virtual environment, wherein determining one or more suggested actions available to the first user comprises comparing characteristics associated with the first user to characteristics associated with one or more other users in the search index and, if the characteristics associated with the first user match characteristics associated with at least one of the one or more other users, then selecting actions associated with the at least one of the one or more other users as suggested actions available to the first user.