System and method for merging user accounts

摘要

Disclosed herein is technology for merging a two separate user accounts. The virtual content in the accounts can be designated at mergeable content and managed content. The user chooses one account to the primary account and the mergeable content from the second user account is merged with the content—of the same type—of the first user account. The managed content is not simply merged into the designated account. Instead, certain components of the virtual content are selected to be migrated to the target account until a maximum number of components are reached.

主权项

1. A method, executed on a computer processor, for merging a first virtual content associated with a first user account associated with a user and a second virtual content associated with a second user account associated with the user, wherein the first user account and second user account are logically separate, the method comprising:
receiving, via an interface interacted with by the user through a client computing platform associated with the user, an instruction from the user to preserve the first virtual content; identifying a first set of managed components in the first virtual content that are stored on electronic storage media associated with the first user account and a second set of managed components in the second virtual content that are stored on electronic storage media associated with the second user account; identifying a maximum number of components of the second set of managed components to be merged; determining, by the computer processor, a ranking metric that quantifies a relative value; ranking, by the computer processor, the second set of managed components based on the ranking metric; and merging components from the second set of managed components from the stored electronic storage media associated with the second user account into the first set of managed components stored in electronic storage media associated with the second user account until the maximum number of managed components is reached, such that the first set of managed components and the merged managed components from the second set of components are stored in the electronic storage media associated with the first user account, wherein which components from the second set of managed components to be merged are automatically selected based on the ranking metric.