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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2011
Marc Silbey, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Kevin Yockey, Kelowna, CA (US);
Marc Silbey, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Kevin Yockey, Kelowna, CA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for presenting information related to a user's friends within a virtual environment. For example, when a user requests to view a friends list, the virtual environment may respond by identifying interactions between that user and their friends. From this, the virtual environment may determine an order to present the users in the list. For example, individual with whom the user interacts with frequently may be more prominently displayed. However, the user may fix or 'pin' the position of certain users (e.g., a close friend with whom contact is infrequent). Further, in addition to displaying friends' names, the list may display an animation of a user's friend generated based on the then current activity, location, or appearance of that friend within a virtual environment.