Patent ID: 8990715
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: A63F,G06F,G06N,G06Q,H04M

Abstract:
1. A system configured to guide the design of an emblem by a user in a virtual space, the system comprising: one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules comprising: a virtual space module configured to determine view information for transmissions to client computing platforms associated with users that facilitate presentation of views of a virtual space to the users on the client computing platforms, wherein the virtual space is common among the users, wherein individual users are represented in the virtual space by avatars, wherein individual ones of the avatars include one or more objects within the virtual space that represent a virtual character, wherein individual ones of the avatars are visually associated with distinct emblems, and wherein the virtual space module is configured to facilitate customization of individual ones of the avatars by individual ones of the users based on selections by the individual users; a design module configured to receive one or more selections selected from an offered set of user-selectable design options, the one or more selections being received from the users, wherein the one or more selections, responsive to selection, define emblems for the users; a design rule module configured to determine whether non-textual aspects of emblems being defined through the received selections from the users are in compliance with a set of design rules for non-textual aspects of emblems wherein the set of design rules facilitate identification of combinations of selections that are selectable from the offered set of user-selectable design options but are not in compliance with the set of design rules for non-textual aspects of emblems, wherein the set of design rules includes rules related to: a distinctiveness module configured to determine whether non-textual aspects of emblems being defined by the users via the design module are visually distinct from a set of designs of emblems; wherein the virtual space module is further configured such that, responsive to a determination by the distinctiveness module that non-textual aspects of a first emblem being defined by a first user via the design module are visually distinct, and responsive to a determination by the design rule module that non-textual aspects of the first emblem are in compliance, the first emblem is visually associated with an avatar of the first user in views of the virtual space such that the first emblem is entirely spatially distinct from the avatar of the first user.