PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983328
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["715", "753000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments described herein determine reputation scores for users of a VR environment based on gestures. Directional information, location information, and gesture information are received from respective client computing devices used by users of the VR environment. Based on the directional and location information, there is a determination of when a user (or their avatar) is looking at an avatar of another user within a specified distance of the avatar of the user within the VR environment. Based on the gesture information, there is a determination of whether the user has a positive impression of the other user, and a reputation score associated with the other user is assigned or modified based thereon. A record of reputation scores associated users is maintained and made available so a user can control an interaction with another user based on the reputation score associated with the other user.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for use with a computer implemented virtual reality (VR) environment in which users can explore the VR environment and interact with one another within the VR environment using client computing devices that are being used by the users, the method comprising:\n (a) for each user, of a plurality of users of the VR environment,\n (a.1) receiving, from a client computing device used by the user of the VR environment, directional information, location information, and gesture information,\n the directional information indicative of a direction that the user, or an avatar of the user, is looking within the VR environment, \n the location information indicative of a location of an avatar of the user within the VR environment, and \n the gesture information indicative of one or more gestures that the user, or the avatar of the user, is making; \n \n (a.2o ) determining based on the directional information and the location information when the user, or the avatar of the user, is looking at an avatar of another user that is within a specified distance of the avatar of the user within the VR environment; \n (a.3) determining based on the gesture information whether the user who is looking, or whose avatar is looking, at the avatar of the other user that is within the specified distance of the avatar of the user within the VR environment has a positive impression of the other user; and \n (a.4) assigning or modifying a reputation associated with the other user based on whether the user has a positive impression of the other user as determining based on the gesture information; \n (b) maintaining a record of reputation scores associated with at least some of the plurality of users; and (c) enabling one of the users of the VR environment to access, using the client computing device they are using, a reputation score associated with another one of the users of the VR environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19718
- Patent Class: 715.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15404074', '15885369', '15481236', '12412232', '14273327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3199645078670106
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4786618624670983
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3358342433270194
- Mean Citation Score: 191.867794
- Max Citation Score: 217.8785
- Similarity Product: 165.5664508523643

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test