Transfer of items between social networking websites

• US 8,626,819 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2007
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GANZ An Ontario Partnership Consisting of SH GANZ Holdings Incorporated and 816877 Ontario Limited
• Original Assignee: Ganz
• Inventors: Ganz, Howard
• Primary Examiner(s): SERRAO, RANODHI N
• Application Number:
  US11/942,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,241 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/217, 715/706
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A first website earns rewards, e.g. points and items, for carrying out activities. Those rewards can be transferred to a second website. For example, a parent'"'"'s website allows the parent to carry more adult tasks and also earn points. The points can be transferred to the child'"'"'s website. A center of the universe website allows obtaining rewards for any of these websites. A social networking component operates across multiple websites.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a server computer, which includes a registration component that registers new items by receiving information indicative of registering a new item on the first server computer, and responsive to said receiving information, automatically adds said new item to a virtual collection of items that a user has acquired, where said virtual collection of items include a collection of item that the user has acquired and are registered on the first server computer, said server computer outputting information that produces a first website page that shows said virtual collection of items that are currently registered, and where said server computer also carries out first social networking on said first website page,

including displaying at least said items within said virtual collection of items on said first website page, and said first social networking automatically shows said new item as part of said social networking after said registering of said new item;

said server computer producing an output that controls said at least one of said items and that can be viewed by other viewers of the first website page other than a user who is displaying the item, and where said output automatically shows said new item after said registering of said new item; and

said server computer communicating contents of said first website page to a second website page, where the second website page receives information indicative of the at least one of said items, and automatically receives said new item after said registering of said new item, an said server computer also transferring

at least one item of personal information about said user.

2. A system as in claim 1, wherein the registration component controls registration of said items by receiving a code indicative of the transfer, where said code uniquely identifies the item being registered, and where after registration of each of said plurality of items, each of said plurality of items is stored on the server computer responsive to the registration as one of said virtual collection of items associated with said first website page.

3. A system as in claim 1, wherein the registration component controls registration of an additional item, and after registration of the additional items, the item and the additional item are both stored on the server computer as members of said virtual collection of items associated with said first website page.

4. A system as in claim 1, wherein further comprising a component that controls purchasing the item, and provides a secure code for the purchase, where said code uniquely identifies the item to be registered, and wherein said first server computer automatically adds said item to said collection responsive to said secure code being entered.

5. A system as in claim 1, further comprising controls associated with said website that carry out individualizing the character in a way that makes the character look different than a character as first registered, and wherein said information indicative of said at least one of said items is automatically updated to include information about said individualizing said character.