Computer-implemented method and apparatus to allocate revenue from a derived avatar component

US7912793B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• IMVU, LLC · US

Inventors

• Matt Danzig · Menlo Park, US
• William David Harvey · Palo Alto, US
• Vernon Melvin Guymon, III · Seattle, US
• Eric Nathan Ries · Palo Alto, US
• Marcus Gosling · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 13, 2005
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Aug 14, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/188
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented hierarchical revenue model includes providing a first revenue value associated with a first avatar component, providing a second revenue value associated with a second avatar component, and combining the first revenue value with a second revenue value to produce a third revenue value associated with a third avatar component, the third avatar component being a derived avatar component that inherits characteristics of the first and the second avatar components, the third avatar component inheriting the first revenue value from the first avatar component, the third avatar component inheriting the second revenue value from the second avatar component.