Virtual World Transcript Bridge for Instant Messaging Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Virtual world communication sessions are limited as users cannot easily access or continue conversations outside of the virtual environment, restricting interaction and community engagement.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows users to initiate and continue instant messaging sessions with avatars after exiting the virtual world application, enabling the storage and retrieval of communication transcripts and providing a graphical user interface to choose whether to continue communication, with options to communicate or not, and access archived transcripts during instant messaging sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users communicate only within the virtual world session, then the virtual world environment is maintained, but communication accessibility is limited and cannot continue after exiting the virtual world
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual world communication transcript as an intermediary that bridges the virtual world session and post-session communication. The transcript stores communication data from the virtual world and enables retrieval and continuation of conversations after users exit the virtual environment, thus maintaining communication accessibility without requiring continuous presence in the virtual world.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically storing communication transcripts when virtual world sessions end. This preliminary storage of communication data enables users to resume conversations later without needing to re-establish the entire communication context, thereby maintaining communication continuity and reducing time loss.
2Reliability
If communication transcripts are stored and made accessible, then communication continuity is improved, but system complexity increases due to transcript storage and retrieval mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual world communication transcript serves multiple functions: it stores communication data from virtual world sessions, enables retrieval of past conversations, facilitates continuation of communication after exiting the virtual world, and provides a bridge between virtual and real-world communication. This multi-functionality improves communication continuity while managing system complexity through a single integrated mechanism.
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AI summary
A method, system and computer program product for associating a virtual instant messaging client, of an avatar, with a standard instant messaging account. When a communication transcript is completed in a virtual instant messaging session, the communication transcript is stored. Wherein the stored communication transcript is an archived virtual world (VW) communication transcript. The archived VW communication transcript is associated with one or more instant messaging clients. A request is received to continue communication, with one or more avatars, when a virtual instant messaging session is completed. When the request is received a graphical user interface (GUI) is automatically displayed. One or more of the following selections are enabled: communicate via the instant messaging session or do not communicate via the instant messaging session. When the selection to communicate, with the one or more avatars, via the instant messaging session is received, the system dynamically initiates an instant messaging session. The GUI is automatically closed when a do not communicate via the instant messaging session selection is received. Access to the archived VW communication transcript is enabled during one or more instant messaging sessions. The content of the archived VW communication transcript is automatically displayed when the archived VW communication transcript is accessed during the instant messaging session.