Avatar Profile Matching for Enhanced Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
In virtual universes, users face challenges in identifying and interacting with avatars of users who share common interests, as existing systems lack effective methods to visually distinguish or emphasize avatars based on user profiles within the virtual environment.
Innovation Solution
A server collects user profiles, identifies avatars within a user's view, and renders modified avatars that meet specific criteria by emphasizing or decorating them with additional features, such as color changes or transparency, based on matching interests, allowing users to visually distinguish compatible users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If avatars are rendered with standard appearance in virtual universes, then all users can view all avatars equally, but users cannot quickly identify avatars with matching interests
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color changes by modifying the rendered appearance of avatars based on interest profile matches. When an avatar's interest profile matches the user's criteria, the avatar is rendered with distinct visual attributes (such as different colors, highlights, or visual effects) compared to avatars that do not match. This allows users to quickly identify and distinguish compatible avatars without changing the underlying avatar model or requiring additional interface elements.
2Loss of information
If the server processes all avatars to determine interest matches, then complete information is available, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and storing interest profile information for all avatars in the virtual universe before runtime rendering. The server maintains a database of avatar interest profiles and pre-calculates compatibility metrics. During avatar rendering, the system queries this pre-processed information to determine which avatars match user criteria, rather than analyzing all avatar details in real-time. This significantly reduces processing time while maintaining complete information availability.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a computer implemented method, computer program product, and apparatus to decorate visible attributes of a rendered avatar. A server may collect a first user profile of a first avatar, the first user profile having at least one interest of a user. Next, the server may receive a location of the first avatar, wherein the location is associated with a view to at least a second avatar. The server can identify the second avatar among a group of avatars visible with respect to the first avatar. Further, the server may read a target profile of the second avatar then determine whether the second user profile satisfies a criterion based on the first user profile and the target profile. In addition, the server may render a modified rendered avatar to a client, responsive to the determination that the target profile satisfies the criterion.