Method and system for filtering movements between virtual environments

摘要

In response to a teleport request, teleport destination characteristics are determined and compared against preferences, characteristics and restrictions of an avatar as indicated by metadata or tags to determine if the teleport destination is suitable for teleportation of that avatar. If the destination is found unsuitable, a search is conducted, preferably based on unmatched metadata of the avatar or the destination to suggest or directly substitute a suitable teleportation destination. Metadata for the avatar and the destination can include metadata which is dynamic (such as destination occupancy or processing capacity) adaptively developed or based on current or historical usage and virtual universe system status.

主权项

1. A method of teleportation in a virtual universe, comprising:
requesting a teleportation operation to a virtual universe destination said virtual universe destination being one of a plurality of locations in one or more virtual universes; determining characteristics of said virtual universe destination; filtering said characteristics of said virtual universe destination requested in said step of requesting a virtual universe destination against at least one of: preferences, characteristics and restrictions to determine mismatched and unmatched preferences, characteristics and restrictions, corresponding to an avatar; controlling a teleportation operation of said avatar in accordance with results of said filtering including, when said teleportation destination is found to be unsuitable, presentation of an interface indicating that said virtual universe destination was found unsuitable for said avatar by said filtering step based on said preferences, characteristics and restrictions which are unmatched or mismatched while delaying, altering or canceling said teleportation operation, and when said one or more preferences, characteristics and restrictions of said avatar is mismatched or unmatched, searching said virtual universe based on unmatched metadata of said avatar or said destination for alternative teleportation destinations corresponding to at least one of avatar preferences or characteristics, for which a match was found, wherein said interface displays and provides for acceptance of an alternative teleportation destination.