Patent ID: 8453212
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a request to allow a user to access a secure computing network, the user associated with an avatar, the avatar having a unique set of one or more identifiers that are associated with the user, the unique set of one or more identifiers including biometric information of the user; determining a security clearance level of the avatar from the unique set of one or more identifiers of the avatar; authorizing the avatar to access one or more virtual compartments of the secure computing network according to the security clearance level of the avatar, a virtual compartment of the one or more virtual compartments comprising one or more resources of the secure computing network; displaying a virtual compartment of the one or more virtual compartments as a room of a virtual building that the avatar may enter when the avatar is authorized to access the virtual compartment; when the avatar accesses the virtual compartment, displaying the one or more resources of the virtual compartment; monitoring communication between the avatar and a second avatar; disabling the communication if the communication references information that the avatar is unauthorized to access; facilitating display of the avatar to one or more second avatars of a higher security clearance level; and preventing display of the one or more second avatars of the higher security clearance level to the avatar.