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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2008
Susan M. Cox, Rochester, MN (US);
Janani Janakiraman, Austin, TX (US);
Fang LU, Billerica, MA (US);
Loulwa Salem, Austin, TX (US);
Susan M. Cox, Rochester, MN (US);
Janani Janakiraman, Austin, TX (US);
Fang Lu, Billerica, MA (US);
Loulwa Salem, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention described herein detects an external user entering into a virtual world that includes a virtual area. In turn, the invention described herein identifies a plurality of joined users that joined each virtual area and computes a joined user weighting for each of the plurality of joined users. The joined user weightings include friend of a friend level weightings and commonality weightings. Next, the invention described herein computes a virtual area friendliness level for each of the virtual areas by aggregating each of the joined user weightings for each of the virtual areas, and provides the virtual area friendliness levels to the external user in order for the external user to select the appropriate virtual area.