Patent ID: 9251318
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method of designating items for transfer between avatars in a virtual universe without a requirement of concurrent presence of said avatars at a location, said method comprising the steps of: using a computer hosting a virtual universe used by a plurality of users to permit a designating avatar to drop and leave an item at said location; using said computer to assign a metadata identifier designating said item that is dropped and left by said designating avatar as tagged for permitted interaction by one or more designated avatars with said item to pick-up and add said item by one or more designated users to an inventory of one of said one or more designated avatars; using a database accessible by said computer to store said metadata identifier; using said computer upon or after said storing of said metadata identifier to send output to a user interface to inform said one or more designated users that the item has been tagged and specified for said permitted interaction to pick-up and add said item by said one or more designated users to said inventory of said one of said one or more designated avatars; and using said computer to allow only said one or more designated avatars, when said one or more designated avatars is at said location and when said item is not already picked-up, to perform said permitted interaction to pick-up and add said item to said inventory of said one of said one or more designated avatars, wherein said designating avatar is different from said one or more designated avatars.