Patent ID: 8712442
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: A63F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing information related to a virtual environment, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, information identifying a condition related to the virtual environment; determining, by the processor, that a mobile wireless communication device associated with the virtual environment is within a predetermined distance of the condition; determining, by the processor, whether a user of the mobile wireless communication device is to be notified of conditions related to the virtual environment; in response to determining that the mobile wireless communication device is within the predetermined distance of the condition and that the user of the mobile wireless communication device is to be notified of conditions related to the virtual environment, providing, by the processor, a notification to the mobile wireless communication device of the condition; and receiving, by the processor, input instructing that the notification corresponding to the condition related to the virtual environment be provided to a user of the mobile wireless communication device via a first type of output and that a further notification corresponding to a condition related to a further virtual environment be provided to the user of the mobile wireless communication device via a second type of output.