Patent ID: 7177928
Filing Date: 2007-02-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A user-status setting method in which a user terminal can send, receive, and display a user status and a character message on at least one virtual space shared on a network, the method comprising: storing a plurality of user status selection tables including user status options from which a user selects his/her own status for each virtual space in which the user participates; reading out the user status selection table of each virtual space in which a user terminal participates when the user terminal has participated in a plurality of virtual spaces; displaying on the user terminal the list of the selectable user statuses for each virtual space based on the read-out user status selection table; setting a user status which was selected from the list of selectable user statuses for each virtual space in which the user has participated; sending to each virtual space the set user status receiving from each virtual space the set user status; and displaying the set user status for each virtual space.