Patent ID: 8635303

Claim:
A method for tracking avatar activities within a virtual universe domain, comprising: defining a permissible proximity threshold of an avatar which symbolizes a user who is accessing the virtual universe domain with respect to a proximity of the avatar to a specified artifact of concern within a virtual universe domain screen display of a computer virtual universe client application of the user; tracking geographic positioning activity by the avatar within the virtual universe domain screen display; generating activity data from the geographic positioning tracking; analyzing the activity data to determine an engagement event whenever an engagement of the avatar with the specified artifact is more proximate than the permissible proximity threshold; generating a report from the analyzing, the report noting each occurrence of the engagement event; and notifying a supervisory entity if the generated report notes an occurrence of the engagement event; wherein generating the report comprises aggregating a list of at least one of a name of a region visited by the avatar within the virtual universe domain during the engagement event and a name of another avatar determined spatially proximate to the avatar within the proximity threshold during the engagement event, and noting an association of the specified artifact with each of the at least one listed region name and the listed another avatar name.