Systems and Methods to Provide Location Information
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method, comprising:
- obtaining geographical location information of a user in at least two worlds of a plurality of virtual worlds hosted on virtual reality servers and the real world;
associating the geographical location information in the at least two worlds with the user using a computer; and
providing the geographical location information via the computer to facilitate at least one location based service.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate location based services based on locations in virtual worlds and locations in the real world. In one aspect, a location server obtains and provides the locations of avatars of users in different virtual worlds and the locations of mobile devices of the corresponding users in the real world. An application server, for example, may provide location based services in a virtual world based on the location of a mobile device in the real world, or provide location based services to a mobile device based on the location of an avatar in a virtual world, or provide location based services to an avatar in one virtual world based on the location of a related avatar in another virtual world.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method, comprising:
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obtaining geographical location information of a user in at least two worlds of a plurality of virtual worlds hosted on virtual reality servers and the real world; associating the geographical location information in the at least two worlds with the user using a computer; and providing the geographical location information via the computer to facilitate at least one location based service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A machine readable storage media storing a plurality of instructions, the instructions causing a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
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obtaining geographical location information of a user in at least two worlds of a plurality of virtual worlds hosted on virtual reality servers and the real world; associating the geographical location information in the at least two worlds with the user using the computer; and providing the geographical location information via the computer to facilitate at least one location based service.
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20. A system, comprising:
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means for obtaining geographical location information of a user in at least two worlds of a plurality of virtual worlds hosted on virtual reality servers and the real world; means for associating the geographical location information in the at least two worlds with the user using a computer; and means for providing the geographical location information via the computer to facilitate at least one location based service.
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