Patent ID: 7921128

Claim:
An automated method comprising: selecting, using a computer system, one or more region edges from each of a first virtual universe region and a second virtual universe region, wherein the first virtual universe region is disparate from the second virtual universe region, and are not associated together by shared software or hardware components; instructing, by the computer system, a source virtual universe grid to lock the first virtual universe region to form a first locked virtual universe region corresponding to at least one edge among selected one or more region edges, said lock preventing avatars entering or exiting the first locked virtual universe region and preventing changes to resources in the first locked virtual universe region; retrieving, from the source virtual universe grid, data and resource information for the first locked virtual universe region; storing the data and resource information retrieved from the source virtual universe grid in a temporary table; sending a delete query to the source virtual universe grid to delete the data and resource information in the source virtual universe grid; sending an insert query to a destination virtual universe grid that contains the second virtual universe region, wherein the insert query includes the data and resource information stored in the temporary table; and stitching, by the computer system, the first virtual universe region to the second virtual universe region in the destination virtual universe grid, wherein the stitching is a three-dimensional geometric merging of the first virtual universe region to the second virtual universe region along the at least one edge.