Patent ID: 8612750
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing secure communication for a virtual universe client of a virtual universe, the method comprising: monitoring a communication stream to and from the virtual universe client by a proxy component between the virtual universe client and a hosting network hosting the virtual universe, the communication stream comprising communication between avatars in the virtual universe, in which the virtual universe simulates one or more real world rules including at least one of gravity, topography, or locomotion, and in which users of the virtual universe interact with the simulated one or more real world rules thereof via the avatars; and selectively encrypting a data packet of the communication stream, the data packet being sent by the virtual universe client to a destination, the selectively encrypting comprising: wherein at least one data packet of the communication stream not selected for encryption passes to the virtual universe absent encryption.