Virtual World Avatar Alternative Action Queue System
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Solution Overview
Problem
In virtual world simulations, when a requested service or location becomes overloaded, users' avatars must wait or navigate away, leading to lost opportunities and server overload issues, as they cannot continue waiting for the original service while exploring alternative options.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows avatars to perform alternative actions while waiting for an original requested service or location to become available, using a processor module to queue requests and present alternative actions to users, allowing them to accept and perform these alternatives without losing their original request's priority.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the avatar waits for the original requested service or location to become available, then the avatar can access the original service when available, but the avatar cannot explore alternative options or perform other actions during the wait time
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by queuing the original request and proactively identifying and presenting alternative actions to the user before the original service becomes available. This allows the user to engage in alternative actions during the wait time while preserving their original request's priority position in the queue.
2Productivity
If the avatar navigates to other locations or picks different services when the original service is unavailable, then the avatar can remain productive, but the avatar loses its place in the queue for the original service
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the queue status and notifying the user when the original service becomes available. This feedback mechanism ensures that users who perform alternative actions during wait time are reminded of their original request's availability, allowing them to return to the original service without having lost their queue position.
3Reliability
If the service or location capacity is increased to handle more users, then the service becomes more available, but the server load and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments users into different groups: those whose original services are available and those whose services are overloaded. By implementing a queueing system for overloaded services and allowing alternative actions, the system manages server load more efficiently without requiring uniform capacity increases across all services.
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AI summary
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.