Third Party Control Over Virtual World Characters
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Abstract
A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world experiences including activities, settings, events, purchases, sales and diverse transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world participation. In some circumstances, multiple persons can participate as a group or participate as individuals in the virtual world environment. Some embodiments provide an oversight procedure that enables a supervisory entity to exercise direct or indirect control over certain virtual world aspects of a participant or player. In some implementations the oversight procedure is at least partially based on an attribute related to the participant or player.
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49 Claims
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28. A computerized system to establish supplemental control of virtual world experiences of a participant or player, the system comprising:
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computer means for creating a virtual world environment, including operating procedures for one or more virtual characters; a supplemental oversight procedure authorized by an auxiliary supervisory entity to control one or more virtual world aspects involving a designated virtual character of the participant or player; and a control module operably coupled with the virtual world environment, wherein the control module implements the supplemental oversight procedures that affect the one or more virtual world aspects involving the designated virtual character. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computer program product comprising:
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(a) program instructions configured to perform a process that associates information in a computer system, the process including at least; providing a virtual world environment that is accessible to a player or participant, establishing a supplemental oversight procedure that is applicable to a particular virtual character of the player or participant, which supplemental oversight procedure has been authorized by or on behalf of a supervisory entity, and implementing auxiliary control over one or more aspects of the particular virtual character'"'"'s participation in the virtual world environment, which auxiliary control is authorized in accordance with the supplemental oversight procedure; and (b) a non-transitory computer-readable signal-bearing media bearing the program instructions. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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46. A computerized system comprising:
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computer apparatus capable of interaction with a computer-simulated virtual world environment; an interface that allows a real-world participant or player to access the computer apparatus and participate in the virtual world environment as a virtual character; and instructions that when executed by the computer apparatus enable the real-world participant or player to; activate the virtual character in the virtual world environment, and engage in one or more virtual world experiences which are subject to an oversight procedure authorized by a supervisory third party entity, which oversight procedure includes control over an aspect related to the one or more virtual world experiences. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49)
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