Facilitating user configured assistance requests through a chat in a virtual space

摘要

A system and method for facilitating a user to initiate and accept an assistance request through a chat session is disclosed. Controls may be provided in a graphical chat interface to enable the user to specify inputs to request assistance from other users participating in the chat session. An assistance request may be generated and communicated to those users through the chat session. Graphical representation for the assistance request and controls that facilitate the users to accept the assistance request may be provided in the graphical chat interface. Upon an acceptance to the assistance request by a responding user through the graphical chat interface, an assistance command may be generated and executed in the virtual space.

主权项

1. A system configured to facilitate a user configured assistance request communicated through a chat session, the system comprising:
one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising:
a space module configured to execute an instance of the virtual space, to implement the instance of the virtual space by receiving and executing commands to facilitate user interactions with the virtual space, and to determine view information for presentation of the virtual space on client computing platforms through space interfaces to facilitate user actions in the virtual space;a chat module configured to implement an instance of a chat session to facilitate synchronous textual communications between users within the virtual space, the chat module being configured to transmit the textual communications that make up the chat session to the computing platforms for presentation through graphical chat interfaces, the graphical chat interfaces being presented on the client computing platforms such that they replace the space interfaces to facilitate the presentation of the textual communications;a chat-request module configured to
receive user inputs requesting assistance submitted through graphical chat interfaces;generate assistance requests based on the received user inputs; andeffectuate communication of the generated assistance requests through the chat sessions for presentation through the graphical chat interfaces; and,wherein responsive to receiving inputs from a first user requesting assistance, the chat-request module generates a first assistance request and effectuate communication of the first assistance request to a second user through a chat session participated by the second user for presentation through a graphical chat interface implemented on a client computing platform associated with the second user;a request-response module configured to receive user acceptances to assistance requests, and to generate assistance commands executable by the space module, wherein responsive to receiving an acceptance to the first assistance request from the second user, the assistance request response module generates a first assistance command executable by the space module; and,wherein the space module is further configured such that responsive to the first assistance command generated by the assistance request response module, the space module executes the first assistance command in the virtual space.