RELOCATING A USER'S ONLINE PRESENCE ACROSS VIRTUAL ROOMS, SERVERS, AND WORLDS BASED ON LOCATIONS OF FRIENDS AND CHARACTERS

摘要

Techniques are disclosed that allow a user to efficiently move their online presence from a current location in a virtual world to a target location near a friend or character. The target location may be in another instance of the virtual world or in another virtual world. Further, the movement of the user-referred to as a jump-may be in response to a request from the user to jump their online presence to the target location of a friend or character. In the other direction, a user can send a "jump to me" request to their friends.