Patent ID: 8584024

Claim:
A method for avatar cloning in a virtual world, comprising: receiving an input indicating a user desires to access a cloning feature to clone an avatar of the user; presenting a graphical user interface that comprises an option for the user to predefine actions for a cloned avatar of the avatar of the user to perform in the virtual world, the predefined actions for the cloned avatar of the avatar of the user to perform being different from and occurring simultaneously with the current activity of the original avatar, wherein the predefined action for the cloned avatar of the avatar of the user to perform and the current activity of the original avatar occur at separate locations in the virtual world, wherein the predefined actions comprise recording an interaction of the cloned avatar; allowing the cloned avatar of the user to be cloned from the avatar of the user; presenting a split screen comprising at least two portions that are split from each other to permit the user to control either the original avatar of the user on a first portion of the split screen or the clone of the original avatar of the user on a second portion of the split screen; and identifying between the cloned avatar of the user in the second portion and the avatar of the user in the first portion which one is currently being actively controlled by the user, wherein the cloned avatar of the user and the avatar of the user are located in different portions of the virtual world; wherein the split screen comprises a first tool bar that is shared by the at least two portions and a second tool bar that is smaller than the first tool bar and positioned and used only in the second portion of the split screen, wherein the second tool bar comprises an indicator of the current actions of the cloned avatar and is configured to allow the user to directly control the actions of the cloned avatar.