SOCIAL GROUPS SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20110265019A1
• Filed: 04/22/2011
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: OyunStudyosu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Oyunstudyosu Limited STI
• Inventors: Ecevit, Mehmet, Usul, Erdem, Sanalp, Tunga
• Application Number:
  US13/092,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20110265019A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/757
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/352 involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of servers managing partitions of the game world
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/63 by the player, e.g. authoring using a level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/795 for finding other players; for building a team; for providing a buddy list
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5553 user representation in the game field, e.g. avatar
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8082 Virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/40 Transformation of program code

Abstract

A system and method for the creation of a virtual world on top of an online community are provided. The system for the creation of a virtual world on top of an online community may be known as SROUPS. SROUPS creates or provides a tool for online community users to create virtual worlds on top of any online community.

Claims

1. A system for generating a virtual world on top of an online community, the system comprising:

one of more computing units;

a virtual world system connectable to each of the one or more computing units over a link;

the virtual world system having a user interface unit for generating a user interface to one of log into an existing virtual world and create a new virtual world;

one or more online communities from which data is extracted from a virtual world and on top of which the virtual world is formed, one or more data processing units that extract and process the data from the one or more online communities and generate the virtual world and one or more stores that store the data associated with the virtual world system.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each computing unit is one of a personal computer, a laptop computer, a tablet device, a smartphone and a cellular phone.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the link is one of the Internet, a wired link and a wireless link.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more data processing units further comprises a chat unit that broadcasts an action of a user of a particular virtual world to other users in the particular virtual world, a rope unit that provides a secure communications path between the chat unit and the user interface unit, a dynamic web unit that generates a plurality of dynamic web pages to the one or more computing units and a static file unit that servers a plurality of static files to the one or more computing units.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the chat unit is a server computer that stores a chat application that is executed by a processing unit of the server computer, the rope unit is a server computer that stores a rope application that is executed by a processing unit of the server computer, the dynamic web unit is a server computer that stores a dynamic web application that is executed by a processing unit of the server computer and the static file unit is a server computer that stores a static file application that is executed by a processing unit of the server computer.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the virtual world system further comprises one or more application programming interfaces that allow the virtual world system to interact with and extract data from the one or more online communities.

7. A method for generating a virtual world on top of a online community using one of more computing units and a virtual world system connectable to each of the one or more computing units over a link, the method comprising:

creating, using a computer implemented system, a virtual world for a group of user of an online community;

providing, using a user interface unit of the virtual world system, a user interface of the virtual world system to log into an existing virtual world and create a new virtual world; and

providing access to the group of user of an online community to the virtual world.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein creating the virtual world further comprises extracting from the online community data and processing the data from the online community to create the virtual world.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising broadcasting, using a chat unit of the virtual world system, an action of a user of a particular virtual world to other users in the particular virtual world.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising establishing, using a rope unit of the virtual world system, a secure communications path between the chat unit and the user interface unit.

11. The method of claim 7 further comprising generating, using a dynamic web unit of the virtual world system, a plurality of dynamic web pages to the one or more computing units.

12. The method of claim 7 further comprising generating, using a static file unit of the virtual world system, a plurality of static files to the one or more computing units.