Patent ID: 8180827

Claim:
A method of associating a graphic icon in a virtual world with a user's experience in a real world, the method comprising: storing correspondence information in a database, the correspondence information associating graphic data values of one or more events that have previously occurred to the user in the real world with an action of the graphic icon; logging data of an event currently occurring to the user in the real world; assigning a graphic data value representing the event currently occurring to the user based on the logged data; transmitting the graphic data value to the database; comparing the graphic data value representing the event currently occurring to the user with the correspondence information; when the comparison indicates that the event currently occurring to the user is the same as one of the one or more of the events that have previously occurred to the user, updating the graphic icon in the virtual world based on the correspondence information; and when the comparison indicates that the event currently occurring to the user is not the same as one of the one or more of the events that have previously occurred to the user, generating a new graphic icon representing the event currently occurring to the user, displaying the new graphic icon, and updating the correspondence information.