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Providing an ad-hoc 3D GUI within a virtual world to a non-virtual world application

US8219921B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Anthony Bussani · Adliswil, CH
Jan L. Camenisch · Thalwil, CH
Thomas R. Gross · Sinzing, DE
Dirk Husemann · Adliswil, CH
Ansgar Schmidt · Berlin, DE
Dieter M. Sommer · Zürich, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 23, 2008
Grant date	Jul 10, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 3, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/451
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for receiving input from a user of a virtual world, the method including: interacting with an object displayed in the virtual world; displaying another object in the virtual world in response to the interacting, the another object adapted to interact with the user; displaying at least one of a user specific label and a service specific label in place of a generic label associated with the another object; selecting the another object; and receiving the generic label and the at least one of the user specific label and the service specific label as the input in response to the selecting.

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