VIRTUAL MESSAGING

• US 20130268869A1
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Be Labs, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Be Labs, Inc.
• Inventors: Balassanian, Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/668,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268869A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method for reserving a specific geographical location in a virtual environment corresponding to the real world.

Claims

1. A system for presenting information, comprising:

providing a virtual environment having a plurality of virtual walls, each virtual wall being associated with a real-world geographical location;

assigning at least one virtual wall to a merchant based on at least one criterion; and

posting content to the virtual wall assigned to the merchant, the content being generated by a user present in the real-world geographical location associated with the assigned virtual wall.

2. The system recited in claim 1, wherein the criterion is a selected one of a location, a location type, a size of area, a time, a length of time, or any combination thereof.

3. The system recited in claim 1, wherein the user is disallowed to post on the assigned virtual wall when the criterion is not satisfied.

4. The system recited in claim 3, wherein the assigned virtual wall is not displayed to users who do not satisfy the criterion.

5. The system recited in claim 1, wherein advertisements are presented on the assigned virtual wall for display to users present in the real-world geographical location of the assigned virtual wall.