VIRTUAL WORLD OPERATING SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD

• US 20130103755A1
• Filed: 03/30/2011
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Park, Woo Chool, Seo, Hae Moon, Yoon, Kyong Ro
• Application Number:
  US13/806,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20130103755A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/60 Generating or modifying game content before or while executing the game program, e.g. authoring tools specially adapted for game development or game-integrated level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/209 characterized by low level software layer, relating to hardware management, e.g. Operating System, Application Programming Interface
• 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: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/27 Server based end-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

The present invention relates to a virtual world operating system and operating method, and is adapted to support a variety of virtual worlds so as to allow linked operation or individual operation of the same by providing a base able to commonly define virtual objects and avatars present in a virtual world. Disclosed is a configuration that comprises: at least one service server which stores data for building at least one virtual world of the present invention and which builds a virtual world based on the data; and a network which supports a communication pathway for service server access, wherein the service server defines common feature types of virtual object types and avatar types positioned in the virtual world based on MPEG-V.

Claims

1. A virtual world operating system comprising:

at least one service server configured to store data for constructing at least one virtual world, and to construct the virtual world based on the data; and

a network configured to support a communication path for access to the service server,

wherein the service server is further configured to define, based on MPEG-V, a common characteristics type of VirtualObjectType and AvatarType in the virtual world.

2. The virtual world operating system of claim 1, wherein the service server is further configured to define:

an identifier of a virtual world object in MPEG-V XML schema so as to distinguish respective objects existing in the at least one virtual world; and

an identifier of an avatar in the MPEG-V XML schema so as to distinguish one or more avatars operated in the at least one virtual world.

3. The virtual world operating system of claim 2, wherein the service server is further configured to define a specific ID or a specific URI to the object or the avatar so as to define the identifier.

4. The virtual world operating system of claim 1, wherein the service server is further configured to create contents which contain, at least in part, data of object or avatar having the identifier.

5. A virtual world operating method based on MPEG-V, the method comprising steps of:

defining common characteristics of virtual object types of virtual objects constituting at least one virtual world; and

defining common characteristics of avatar types of one or more avatars operated in the at least one virtual world.

6. The virtual world operating method of claim 5, further comprising step of:

defining identifiers for identifying the virtual objects and the avatars.