Patent ID: 8990306
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: A63F,G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for pre-fetching items in a virtual universe (VU) based on avatar communications, comprising: analyzing, using at least one computing device, communications between a set of avatars in the VU, the communications comprising alphanumeric content of at least one electronic message, the alphanumeric content comprising a set of words; extracting, using the at least one computing device, the set of words from the communications based on the analysis; ranking, using the at least one computing device, each word of the set of words based on a frequency, a recency, and a relevance of the each word as used in the communications, the frequency comprising a number of occurrences of the each word in the avatar communications, the recency comprising a number of months since the each word was last used in the avatar communications, and the relevance comprising a number of occurrences, in the avatar communications, of other words associated with the each word as indicated by a folksonomy analysis; comparing, using the at least one computing device, the each word of the set of words against a database of known words relating to advertisements or spam; and calculating, using the at least one computing device, a relative priority of the each word of the set of words based on the comparing and a calculation, the calculation comprising subtracting the recency from a sum of the frequency and the relevance.