Ghost Spider Avatars for Metaverse Trademark Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The Metaverse faces challenges in efficiently managing avatars, including complex avatar interactions, trademark infringement detection, and optimizing VR room resources, particularly with issues like zombie avatars and high computational costs for rendering multiple user views.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of advanced avatar management systems, including ghost spiders for data collection, avatar rental and purchase mechanisms, and optimized video streaming in VR environments, which utilize multiple display configurations and user interaction controls to enhance user experience and resource management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple user views are rendered in VR environments, then user experience is improved, but computational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the VR environment rendering by identifying and separating zombie avatars from active avatars. Ghost spiders are deployed to monitor and categorize avatars based on their activity status, allowing the system to render only relevant portions of the environment for each user view, thereby reducing overall computational load while maintaining user experience quality.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of rendering full-detail views for all avatars, the system creates simplified copies or representations of zombie avatars. These copied representations require significantly less computational resources to render while still providing sufficient visual information for user interaction and immersion.
2Reliability
If avatar interactions are monitored and managed, then trademark violations are detected, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Avatars are equipped with self-identifying characteristics or metadata that automatically indicate their ownership and authorization status. This self-service approach allows the system to detect trademark violations through automated recognition of these markers during avatar interactions, eliminating the need for complex manual monitoring systems.
Solution Approach 2:
Ghost spiders act as intermediary agents between avatars and the central management system. These spider programs monitor avatar interactions, collect data on potential trademark violations, and report findings without requiring direct complex processing in the main system, thereby simplifying overall system architecture while maintaining detection capability.
3Measurement precision
If ghost spiders are deployed for data collection, then avatar monitoring is improved, but resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Ghost spiders perform partial monitoring actions by focusing only on specific aspects of avatar behavior relevant to trademark violation detection. Rather than comprehensively monitoring all avatar activities, the spiders concentrate on key indicators such as avatar appearance, location patterns, and interaction types, reducing resource consumption while maintaining effective detection capability.
Data Source
AI summary
Spiders scans websites. A ghost spider scans VR/Metaverse “rooms”. The ghost spider does not use an avatar to represent itself when it visits rooms. It has no visible presence to avatars. A ghost spider can follow an avatar, documenting its activities. A room can have policies on forbidden items for avatars. Two common problems with rooms are (a) unauthorised use of trademarks; (b) when users with avatars visit a room, (zombie) avatars often remain logged in and static, as their users do other tasks. The room falsely benefits in attendance numbers with zombies present. Our specification attacks both problems.