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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Rick A. Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Dimitri Kanevsky, Ossining, NY (US);
Michael D. Kendzierski, New York, NY (US);
Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method to enhance user accessibility in a virtual universe and, in particular, to enhance user accessibility by providing information and/or actions to users participating in the virtual universe. The system comprises an assignment engine configured to assign an accessibility unit to an item within a virtual universe and a detection engine configured to detect a triggering event, which triggers the accessibility unit. The system also comprises an accessibility action engine configured to provide at least one of information and an action to a user when the accessibility unit is triggered.