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System and method for providing information in a virtual world

US8140978B2 · kind B2 · utility

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21Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Boas Betzler · Poughkeepsie, US
Bernd Beyrodt · Stuttgart, DE
Dieter Buehler · Lörrach, DE
Ansgar Schmidt · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 14, 2009
Grant date	Mar 20, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 20, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F3/011
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Providing tracking information about events in a virtual world using a computer is presented including: causing the computer to provide a re-usable code portion, the re-usable code portion configured with a unique identifier and an address of an external data storage, causing the computer to configure at least a set of events to be tracked for sending information about tracked events to the external data storage; causing the computer to associate the re-usable code portion with a virtual object to be tracked in the virtual world. In some embodiments, methods are presented wherein the causing the computer to associate the re-usable code portion with the virtual object comprises causing the computer to integrate the re-usable code portion on a source code level into the virtual object.”

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