Patent ID: 8659623

Claim:
A method for a three dimensional (3D) virtual world wormhole comprising: hosting, by a server computer, a 3D virtual world; creating, by the server computer, a wormhole at a selected location in the 3D virtual world for automatic transport of an avatar from the selected location to a selected destination in the 3D virtual world; checking, by the server computer, a capacity of the selected destination in response to an avatar entering the wormhole and prior to transporting the avatar to the selected destination; checking, by the server computer, capacities of other possible destinations in response to the selected destination being full; continuing checking, by the server computer, the capacities of the selected destination and the other possible destinations until the selected destination or one of the other possible destinations has an available capacity; and transporting the avatar, by the server computer, to the selected destination or the one of the other possible destinations that has the available capacity.