Patent ID: 9256347
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of suggesting teleportation destinations in one or more virtual universes (VU) which are personalized to a current context of a user, the method comprising: collecting current contextual metadata corresponding to at least one of a location, a time/date, an activity/event and a person/object and wherein said contextual metadata is related to a current island or VU of an avatar of said user, wherein said contextual metadata comprises information corresponding to the current context or circumstances of current usage of a computer or terminal by said user in regard to said at least one of said location, time/date, activity/event and/a person/object and excludes terms derived from a query or communication using said computer; developing a search query for a search engine based on said current contextual metadata; when a change occurs in said contextual metadata collected in said collecting step, developing a new search query and searching for VU locations having metadata corresponding to said new search query to form search results; and responsive to said forming of search results based on said new search query, suggesting one or more VU locations having metadata corresponding to a portion of said current contextual metadata based on said search results as a potential teleportation destination for an avatar corresponding to said user into said VU location, wherein the one or more VU locations are in one or more alternative islands or VUs offering a similar or same virtual experience of said current island or VU in terms of setting, whereby suggestions of potential teleportation destinations related to said current context and circumstances of computer usage by said user are made to said user transparently.