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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2007
Rick Allen Hamilton, Ii, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Steven Mark Harrison, Bremerton, WA (US);
Brian Marshall O'connell, Cary, NC (US);
Clifford Alan Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, TX (US);
Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Steven Mark Harrison, Bremerton, WA (US);
Brian Marshall O'Connell, Cary, NC (US);
Clifford Alan Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for allowing an administrator or program to select a region or set of avatars in a virtual universe grid for splitting into another, separate and distinct virtual universe grid. If a region is selected, all of the avatars and virtual universe resources associated with the region are locked, their data is retrieved, and another separate virtual universe grid is commanded to create and insert the avatars and resources in it. If avatars are selected, all of the resources, scripts, histories, and information regarding the selected avatars are retrieved, and the avatars are locked in the source universe. Then, another, separate virtual universe grid is commanded to create universe user identifiers for the avatars, and they are inserted into the separate VU grid. Cleanup includes deleting the region and/or avatars from the first (source) virtual universe grid.