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US 10,369,473 B2Granted
Method for extending a virtual environment through registration
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGeorge R. Dolbier, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Neil A. Katz, Brian M. O'Connell
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Abstract
A method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of a base virtual world having base virtual world functionality and a base world list of base virtual world users, includes providing a virtual world layer, communicating to the base virtual world that the virtual world layer will overlay the base virtual world and adding the virtual world layer to the base world list in order to register the virtual world layer with the base virtual world.
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A method for extending functionality of a base virtual world, comprising:
- coupling a virtual world layer to the base virtual world via a registration process to provide an extended base virtual world functionality, wherein the registration process adds the virtual world layer to a user list of the base virtual world;
- coupling a further virtual world layer to the base virtual world via the registration process, wherein the registration process adds the further virtual world layer to the user list of the base virtual world;
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- providing access to the extended base virtual world functionality by way of any of the virtual world layer and the further virtual world layer.
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