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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Andrew Bryan Smith, Morrisville, NC (US);
Brian Ronald Bokor, Raleigh, NC (US);
Peter Frederick Haggar, Raleigh, NC (US);
Daniel Edward House, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Bruce Nicol, Durham, NC (US);
Andrew Bryan Smith, Morrisville, NC (US);
Brian Ronald Bokor, Raleigh, NC (US);
Peter Frederick Haggar, Raleigh, NC (US);
Daniel Edward House, Raleigh, NC (US);
William Bruce Nicol, Durham, NC (US);
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for allowing an alternative action in a virtual world may include a processor and a module operable on the processor for allowing an alternative action in a virtual world in response to a request for an original action for an avatar of a user being unavailable in the virtual world. A queue stores the request in response to the original action being unavailable. Another module may determine if an alternative action is available for the avatar in response to the original action being unavailable. A further module may present an interface to permit the user to accept the alternative action. The avatar is permitted to perform the alternative action in response to the user accepting the alternative action while the request for the original action is still in the queue.