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Virtual character with realtime content input

  • US 20070143679A1
  • Filed: 02/08/2007
  • Published: 06/21/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. In an interactive system of the type including an input device for accepting input command data from a user and a display screen for producing a graphical image representing a real or imagined human or animal whose displayed behavior varies in response said input command data, the improvement comprising:

  • a data transmission network for repetitively broadcasting update messages that contain the current values of one or more variable quantities, said update messages being broadcast to a plurality of different wireless data receivers each of which is located remotely from said information server and each of which includes a data receiver including a decoder for receiving said update messages and for extracting selected ones of said current values from said update messages, a cache memory coupled to said input device and to said decoder in one of said data recievers for storing said input command data and said selected ones of said current values extracted form said update messages, and a processor coupled to said cache memory and to said display screen for controlling the perceptible attributes of said graphical image in response to changes in the data stored in said cache memory.

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