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Management of resources within a virtual world

  • US 10,369,477 B2
  • Filed: 10/08/2014
  • Issued: 08/06/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device comprising a connecting element arranged to receive one or more smart beads, wherein a smart bead represents a virtual resource in an interactive software experience or an action on a virtual resource in the interactive software experience, the device comprising:

  • a bead detection module arranged to detect and identify a combination of two or more smart beads attached to the connecting element, wherein a first smart bead in the combination of smart beads represents a first virtual resource or action and a second smart bead in the combination of smart beads represents a second virtual resource or action; and

    a resource management module arranged to autonomously update quantities of one or more additional virtual resources that are;

    different from both the first virtual resource or action and the second virtual resource or action, andnot represented by the first smart bead, the second smart bead, or the detected combination,wherein the autonomous updating is performed based at least in part on;

    the detected smart bead combination, andone or more equations or expressions defining an effect on the additional virtual resources of combining the first virtual resource or action with the second virtual resource or action represented by the detected smart bead combination.

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