US 12,132,775 B2
Method and apparatus for providing metaverse environment
Sang Il Ahn, Seoul (KR); Yoon Woo Jang, Seoul (KR); Dong Woo Kang, Seoul (KR); Ye Li Kim, Seoul (KR); Seo Hee Choi, Seoul (KR); Yae Jin Han, Seoul (KR); Sun Yeop Lee, Seoul (KR); Han Ryeol Seong, Seoul (KR); Eun Hee Choi, Seoul (KR); and Dan Ha Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Hyperconnect Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyperconnect Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/937,982.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0137236 (KR), filed on Oct. 15, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0032151 (KR), filed on Mar. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0123698 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); H04L 65/1093 (2022.01); H04L 65/80 (2022.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 65/80 (2013.01) [G06F 3/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 65/1093 (2013.01); H04M 3/563 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operating method of a server, the operating method comprising:
generating a plurality of avatars based on profile information of a plurality of user terminals;
providing a map space in which the plurality of avatars are able to travel;
providing a first audio space, wherein the first audio space is a sub-map space located on the map space,
wherein the providing of the first audio space comprises setting an entry condition for entering the first audio space,
wherein the entry condition comprises at least one of a condition regarding ages of avatars to enter the first audio space, a condition regarding a gender ratio of avatars present in the first audio space, and a condition regarding a number of avatars present in the first audio space;
identifying a first avatar generated based on a first user terminal and a second avatar generated based on a second user terminal from a plurality of avatars that entered into the first audio space by satisfying the entry condition;
moving the identified first avatar and second avatar to a second audio space;
in the second audio space, facilitating a conversation between the first user terminal and the second user terminal based on the identified first avatar and second avatar in the first audio space, wherein the conversation is a video call or a voice call; and
matching a user of the first user terminal and a user of the second user terminal upon detecting a sign of attraction transmitted from the first user terminal to the second avatar and a sign of attraction transmitted from the second user terminal to the first avatar after the conversation,
wherein the matching further comprises providing for transmission and reception of messages between the first user terminal and the second user terminal through chat windows.