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 17):
A system for supporting a computer implemented virtual reality (VR) environment in which users of the VR environment 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 system comprising:\n one or more processors configured to receive, from each of a plurality of client devices being used by respective users of the VR environment, directional information, location information, and gesture information, each instance of the directional information indicative of a direction that a said user or an avatar of the said user is looking within the VR environment, each instance of the location information indicative of a location of an avatar of a said user within the VR environment, and each instance of the gesture information indicative of one or more gestures that a said user or the avatar of the said user is making; the one or more processors also configured to determine, based on the directional information and the location information, when a said user, or the avatar of the said user, is looking at an avatar of another said user that is within a specified distance of the avatar of the said user within the VR environment; the one or more processors also configured to determine, based on the gesture information, whether a first said user who is looking, or whose avatar is looking, at the avatar of the a second said user that is within the specified distance of the first said avatar of the user within the VR environment has a positive impression of the second said user; the one or more processors also configured to assign or modify a reputation associated with the second said user based on whether the first said user has a positive impression of the second said user as determining based on the gesture information; the one or more processors also configured to maintain a record of reputation scores associated with at least some of the plurality of users; and the one or more processors also configured to enable 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): 0.3197538004859933
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4796590124994261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3357443216873366
- Mean Citation Score: 191.867794
- Max Citation Score: 217.8785
- Similarity Product: 163.74782449257373

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