Patent ID: 9338132
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method in a virtual universe (VU) system comprising: identifying, by a VU server having at least one computing device, a spam avatar operating in a region of a virtual universes; rendering, by the VU server automatically in response to the identifying of the spam avatar, the spam avatar by altering an original avatar of a user associated with the spam avatar with a distinguishable mark added to the original avatar that modifies only a portion of the appearance of the original avatar and differentiates the spam avatar from non-spam avatars; eliminating by the user, using the at least one computing device, the distinguishable mark; re-rendering, using the at least one computing device, the spam avatar as the original avatar with the distinguishable mark eliminated; and removing, using the at least one computing device, the spam avatar from a black list of spam avatars in response to the re-rendering.