Patent ID: 8615713

Claim:
A method for managing document interactions in a collaborative document area of a virtual world comprising: displaying one or more documents in the collaborative document area, the collaborative document area being a shared virtual space in the virtual world; capturing document interactions of one or more avatars, an avatar being a representation of a user in the virtual world, with the one or more displayed documents in the collaborative document area of the virtual world using an interaction tool deployed in the collaborative document area using one or more computing devices, the document interactions comprising focusing of the avatar's attention upon, gestures and visual expression, the document interactions being related to at least one displayed document in the collaborative document area; associating the document interactions with the at least one document based on a reference scheme applied to the collaborative document area by an interaction association unit using the one or more computing devices; and storing the document interactions with the documents in a content repository, the document interactions being associated with one or more meta-data properties to facilitate searching and navigating of the content repository with respect to the document interactions.