Patent ID: 7298378

Claim:
A system for enabling a visitor to access VR representations authored by different authors of locations in a virtual universe via a computer network, the system comprising: a plurality of VR data sets, each VR data set defining a VR representation of a location, each data set independently authored by a respective author different from the other authors; means for receiving and storing a VR data set from the author of the VR data set; one or more VR data servers adapted to access and transmit the VR data sets, each VR data set associated with a VR data server for access to the VR data set; domain data, the domain data comprising the location within the universe of each VR representation and the network address of the VR data server associated with the VR representation; a domain server adapted to access and transmit domain data; and a client host adapted to communicate with the domain server to receive domain data representing the network address of the VR data server associated with a selected VR representation, the client host further adapted to communicate with that VR data server to access the VR data set defining the VR representation without leaving the virtual universe.