Patent ID: 8612868
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer method of persisting a portion of group conversations in a virtual environment, comprising: providing a group conversation in a virtual environment, the group conversation being formed of a plurality of group member communications; displaying to a user chat bubble indications of the group member communications in the plurality, wherein the virtual environment includes avatars representing users and includes the chat bubble indications of the group member communications, the displayed chat bubble indications initially being non-persistent wherein each of the chat bubble indications has a non-persistent state and a persistent state and has a user interface effecting change in state of the chat bubble indication; and enabling the user to selectively persist a portion of the group conversation by the user selecting, through respective user interface of chat bubble indications, ones of the group member communications, and each of the user selected ones of the group member communications and corresponding chat bubble indications changing from the respective non-persistent state to a persistent state and being persisted as a respective virtual object in the virtual environment such that the user selected ones are prevented from disappearing, after a time limit, from the virtual environment, and such that the corresponding chat bubble indications change, user-selectively, from being non-persistent to being respective persistent virtual objects displayed as chat bubble indications, wherein the respective virtual objects are user moveable in the virtual environment and are user manipulateable in the virtual environment.