Patent ID: 9299178
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for responding to gestures made by third parties in a virtual world, comprising: receiving a first gesture to be made by a first avatar directed to at least one second avatar, thereby forming a first received gesture; receiving a second gesture to be made by a third avatar directed to the at least one second avatar in a specific area of the virtual world, thereby forming a second received gesture; accessing a database comprising a first reply gesture and a second reply gesture, wherein the first reply gesture corresponds to at least one unique set of criteria, wherein each set of criteria comprises at least one user-defined criterion and a received gesture criterion in addition to the user-defined criterion and the second reply gesture corresponds to a set of default gestures that are based on the specific area of the virtual world; for the at least one second avatar, selecting the first reply gesture from the database corresponding to one of the unique sets of criteria based on at least a time period associated with the first received gesture, wherein the second reply gesture is different from the first reply gesture; and simultaneously outputting the first reply gesture for communication to the first avatar and the second reply gesture for communication to the third avatar.