Patent ID: 8468178

Claim:
A method for providing location information to users in a virtual environment, the method comprising: determining that a first user is communicating with a second user in a virtual environment, wherein the virtual environment comprises a plurality of virtual locations within a virtual world that are accessible by graphical representations of human users, wherein the graphical representations of human users are controllable by human users; determining that one of the first user and the second user has entered a character set matching a keyword in a database entry; identifying a set of location information associated with the keyword, wherein the set of location information indicates at least one virtual location in the plurality of virtual locations within the virtual environment; linking the set of location information to the character set; visually changing the character set to indicate to the first user and second user that set of location information has been linked to the character set, wherein the character set that has been visually changed is selectable by each of the first user and the second user; determining that at least one of the first user and the second user has selected the character set that has been visually changed; and transporting at least one of a graphical representation of the first user and a graphical representation of the second user to the virtual location within the virtual environment corresponding to the set of location information.