Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Christian P Shrigley

John Holbrook Crocker

Vita G Markman

Paul Pak

Sean O'Dell

Robert Todd Ogrin

Drew Beechum

Arkady G Trestman

Marc Adam Silbey

Lane Merrifield

Kip Martin

Jacob D Wagaman

Stephane Jankowski

Kevin O'Sullivan

Starr Long

Content may be provided within a virtual space responsive to user characters performing available actions solicited via visual indications within the virtual space. One or more available actions may be determined. A given available action may include an action that is available to be performed by one or more user characters within the virtual space. Individual ones of the one or more available actions may be solicited via visual indications of the respective available actions. Performance of individual available actions by one or more user characters may be effectuated responsive to one or more conditions being satisfied. Content may be presented in the virtual space responsive to performance of at least one of the available actions.

Providing content responsive to performance of available actions solicited via visual indications

Techniques are disclosed for supplying users in an online environment with a safe and effective chat facility. The chat facility is 'safe' in the sense that the ability of users to compose inappropriate messages is greatly restricted, while 'effective' in the sense that users are still allowed a broad range of expressivity in composing and exchanging chat messages.

Soft-sending chat messages

Dynamically generated phrase-based assisted input

Techniques are disclosed to facilitate user matching in a virtual environment. Social interactions of a first user in the virtual environment are monitored. A request to participate in a desired activity is received from the first user. A set of users currently eligible to participate in the first desired activity is retrieved. A match is programmatically generated between the first user and at least a second user of the retrieved set of users, based on the monitored social interactions. The first user and the second user participate in the desired activity in the virtual environment.

User matching in a virtual environment

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Simi Valley, CA, United States of America

Christian P Shrigley