Patent ID: 8116323
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: A63F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing peer-to-peer negotiation between first and second peers in a distributed virtual environment, the method comprising: receiving profile data at the first peer controlling a first virtual space in the distributed virtual environment from the second peer controlling a second virtual space adjacent to the first virtual space in the distributed virtual environment, wherein the first virtual space comprises a first surface area and has a first boundary and the second virtual space comprises a second surface area and has a second boundary which is at least in part contiguous with a portion of the first boundary, wherein the first peer serves those clients of a plurality of clients having an agent in the first virtual space, and the second peer serves those clients of a plurality of clients having an agent in the second virtual space; determining relative profile data by comparing profile data of the first peer and the profile data of the second peer; and adjusting the first boundary and the second boundary between the first virtual space and the second virtual space responsive to the relative profile data to diminish a size of the first virtual space and to enlarge a size of the second virtual space.