发明名称 Methods of efficiently recording and reproducing activity in virtual world
摘要 An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event.
申请公布号 US8825690(B2) 申请公布日期 2014.09.02
申请号 US201213594954 申请日期 2012.08.27
申请人 International Business Machines Corporation 发明人 Iizuka Shinji
分类号 G06F17/30 主分类号 G06F17/30
代理机构 Cahn & Samuels, LLP 代理人 Cahn & Samuels, LLP
主权项 1. A memory recall assistance apparatus for providing memory recall assistance to a user by a computer, the user operating an avatar in a virtual world divided into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique identifier (ID), the apparatus comprising: search means of searching an activity record database (DB), including recorded activity datasets, to find an activity dataset containing an entered block ID of the avatar, the activity datasets each obtained by recording data on an activity of an avatar including an event content, a movement history and a repetition count of the activity; determination means for determining whether the found activity dataset is appropriate for the memory recall assistance; and display means for displaying, on a display of the computer, the activity dataset determined as appropriate for the memory recall assistance, wherein the determination means includes means for calculating an importance score of the activity dataset from the event content and the repetition count and means for determining that the activity dataset is appropriate for the memory recall assistance if the importance score is greater than a predetermined value, wherein the display means includes means for displaying the movement history of the activity dataset near the avatar and means for displaying the event content of the activity dataset near the avatar, wherein the virtual world is shared by a server computer and a plurality of client computers, the activity record DB is recorded in the server computer, and wherein a search means, a determination means, and a display means operate by using activity datasets of the activity record DB to assist the user to recall memory according to an activity dataset of another client computer, and wherein the memory recall assistance based on activity datasets of the other client computers is distinctively displayed with an attribute different from that of the memory recall assistance based on its own activity dataset.
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