Virtual music rights management
AssigneesSony Group Corporation, Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
InventorsBradley Spahr, Thomas Sachson
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Abstract
Management of virtual content rights of digital assets for a virtual environment, including: receiving data indicating a request from a user for assignment of virtual content rights of a digital asset; determining whether the requested virtual content rights are available for assignment to the user and a set of terms of the assignment for the requested virtual content rights; notifying the user of the availability and the set of terms for the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user; receiving data indicating agreement by the user to the assignment, including agreement to at least one term of the set of terms; and updating the virtual content rights database to indicate the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user.
Claims20
A method for management of virtual content rights of digital assets for a virtual environment, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a platform administrator server, data indicating a request from a user for assignment of virtual content rights of a digital asset;
- determining, by the platform administrator server, whether the requested virtual content rights are available for assignment to the user and a set of terms of the assignment for the requested virtual content rights, where the platform administrator server accesses a virtual content rights database storing data associating users of a digital content engagement platform with virtual content rights acquired with respect to digital assets and storing data indicating terms for assigning virtual content rights;
- notifying, by the platform administrator server, the user of the availability and the set of terms for the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user;
- receiving, by the platform administrator server, data indicating agreement by the user to the assignment, including agreement to at least one term of the set of terms;
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- updating, by the platform administrator server, the virtual content rights database to indicate the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user.
A method of managing music rights for a virtual environment, the method comprising:
- retrieving character information from a character database, where the character information is associated with an acquiring character associated with a virtual environment, and the character information includes character rights information;
- retrieving music information from a music database, where the music information is associated with a song, and the music information includes music rights information;
- updating the character rights information based on the music information;
- updating the music rights information based on the character information;
- receiving first user action information from a first client through a network, where the first user action information indicates the song, and where the first client is associated with a first user;
- updating the character information based on the first user action information;
- sending the updated character information to a second client through the network, where the second client is associated with a second user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.