Third party control over virtual world characters

Patent №

US 8,556,723

Granted

2013-10-15

Filed 2008

Owner

SEARETE LLC

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12286532

A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world experiences including activities, settings, events, purchases, sales and diverse transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world participation. In some circumstances, multiple persons can participate as a group or participate as individuals in the virtual world environment. Some embodiments provide an oversight procedure that enables a supervisory entity to exercise direct or indirect control over certain virtual world aspects of a participant or player. In some implementations the oversight procedure is at least partially based on an attribute related to the participant or player.

AI classification

Planning0.99
AI hardware0.09
Natural language0.03
Vision0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SEARETE LLC

assignment · 220590507

THE INVENTION SCIENCE FUND I, LLC

assignment · 304460973

Assignors

JUNG, EDWARD K.Y., LEVIEN, ROYCE A., LORD, ROBERT W., MALAMUD, MARK A., RINALDO, JR., JOHN D.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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