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Delivery of objects in a virtual world using a descriptive container
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Inventors: Brush, II, Abbott Purdy; Gage, Christopher Arnell Surtees; Lection, David Bruce; Schell, David Allen;
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Phu K.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Ray-Yarletts; Jeanine S.
A method and apparatus for encasing one or more virtual objects in a container for delivery in a virtual world. The container can be opened by automatic time-out, simple manual opening or security-enforced manual opening. The container can hide all or part of the virtual objects, filter events to or from the objects, present advertising information, group multiple objects and enforce access security checkpoints. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The preferred embodiment of the present invention is implemented using VRML in a virtual world.
An avatar is implemented to represent user, or one or more aspects of a user, in a virtual world.
An example used in describing virtual containers is one where a user goes shopping on the Internet through the use of an avatar in a virtual shopping mall.
The virtual world of the preferred embodiment is a shopping mall, although a virtual world could be created to be any perceived world; both those mimicking our reality and those of science fiction.
The virtual shopping mall contains many stores which, in the present implementation, physically reside on multiple servers within the Internet.
An example of this is shown in FIG.
1.
In our example, the computer labeled 101 is the client computer used by a user (USER1) for accessing the world wide web as depicted by 100.
USER1 created an avatar (AVATAR1) for use in traversing a virtual world.
A subset of the world-wide web is depicted by enumerated servers 102-105.
In the present example server 102 contains a hardware store, server 103 contains a drug store, a card shop and a florist, and a department store is split between servers 104 and 105.
As is shown by this example, a single store or a single virtual world can reside across multiple servers which may physically reside in multiple locations.
The present invention focuses on AVATAR1 and the processes necessary to interact with objects in a virtual world.
FIG.
2 demonstrates prior art of how a virtual world is presently traversed involving direct object interactions.
The process begins with USER1 accessing a virtual world, for example a hardware store, with AVATAR1 in step 201.
In step 202, the virtual world is transferred to USER1's client workstation which allows for visual representation of the world.
In step 203, any avatars in the same virtual world are transferred to USER1 's client workstation.
Now that the world and other avatars have been transferred, step 204 proceeds to load AVATAR1 into the client workstation
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