Avatar Profile Correlation Across Virtual Worlds
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack effective methods for managing and correlating information across multiple virtual worlds, leading to challenges in identifying marketing opportunities, detecting fraud, and optimizing user interactions, as they fail to consistently link and maintain accurate relationships between avatars from different virtual environments.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that receives and correlates avatar profiles from multiple virtual worlds, storing the correlations to enable the identification of user relationships and preferences, allowing for targeted advertising and fraud detection by deriving and managing master data across virtual worlds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If avatar profiles are collected from multiple virtual worlds, then user relationship identification capability is improved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central server as an intermediary component that receives, stores, and correlates avatar profile data from multiple virtual worlds. This central server acts as a mediator between the distributed virtual world systems, centralizing data management functions and reducing the complexity burden on individual virtual world systems while enabling comprehensive user relationship identification across platforms.
Solution Approach 2:
The central server is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle diverse avatar profile data from different virtual worlds, perform correlation analysis, identify user relationships, and support various applications including fraud detection and targeted advertising. This universal platform approach consolidates multiple specialized systems into a single versatile infrastructure.
2Reliability
If avatar profile data is correlated across virtual worlds, then fraud detection capability is improved, but information processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary correlation of avatar profile data and pre-identifies potential fraud indicators by analyzing relationships between avatars across virtual worlds in advance. By proactively establishing baseline relationship patterns and detecting anomalies before they manifest as actual fraud incidents, the system reduces the time required for real-time fraud detection and response.
3Productivity
If comprehensive avatar information is stored and correlated, then targeted marketing effectiveness is improved, but data storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and stores only the essential correlation data and relationship indicators needed for targeted marketing purposes, rather than retaining complete raw avatar profile data from all virtual worlds. By selectively extracting key attributes such as user relationships, interaction patterns, and preference indicators, the system maintains marketing effectiveness while reducing overall data storage requirements.
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AI summary
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for managing relationship information across virtual worlds. In one embodiment, information about avatars in virtual worlds may be received. A correlation may be derived between two avatars based on the received information. The derived correlation between the two avatars may be stored. Applications may query for derived correlations.