Patent ID: 8595632
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: A63F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring a user trajectory in a virtual universe, comprising: recording an activity of a first avatar within a virtual universe, the activity including a series of locations that the avatar has occupied within the virtual universe over a time period, the virtual universe including an interactive simulated environment accessed by multiple users simultaneously by using avatars to inhabit and interact with the virtual universe; rendering the recording of the activity as a visible path that illustrates a movement of the first avatar over the time period; recording a second activity of a second avatar, which is unaffiliated with the first avatar, within the virtual universe, the second activity including a second series of locations that the avatar has occupied within the virtual universe over a time period; rendering the recording of the second activity as a visible path that illustrates a movement of the second avatar over the time period; aggregating first and second visible paths to determine common movement patterns within the virtual universe; and using the aggregating to perform a subsequent activity in the virtual universe, wherein the subsequent activity includes modifying a geographic layout of the virtual universe by relocating a structural item within a virtual region in the virtual universe with respect to another structural item in the virtual region of the virtual universe.