Patent ID: 8682832

Claim:
A method for applying an avatar behavior rule within a virtual universe environment, comprising: monitoring a behavior of a collective plurality of avatars within a virtual universe environment for compliance with a violation threshold of an avatar behavior rule for the virtual universe environment, and to determine if any of the avatars is complaining that the monitored behavior of another of the avatars is at an objectionable level within the virtual universe environment; determining an amount of compliance of the monitored collective plurality behavior with the rule; comparing the determined compliance amount with the violation threshold; if the determined compliance amount does not exceed the violation threshold and any of the avatars is determined to be complaining that the monitored behavior of another of the avatars is at an objectionable level within the virtual universe environment, revising the violation threshold downward, wherein a lower level of the determined compliance amount is required to exceed the violation threshold; and repeating the steps of monitoring the behavior of the collective plurality of avatars within the virtual universe for compliance with the rule and to determine if any of the avatars is complaining that the monitored behavior of another of the avatars is at the objectionable level within the virtual universe environment, determining the amount of compliance of the monitored collective plurality behavior with the rule, comparing the determined compliance amount with the revised violation threshold, and revising the violation threshold downward, until the monitored compliance amount exceeds the revised violation threshold or none of the avatars is determined to be complaining that the monitored behavior of another of the avatars is at the objectionable level within the virtual universe environment.