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US 2006/0190282 A1Published application
Providing risk mitigation in a virtual world
OwnerEdward Jung, Royce Levien +3inventors
InventorsEdward Jung, Royce Levien, Robert Lord, Mark Malamud, John Rinaldo
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Abstract
Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a method includes operating a protection entity associated with a virtual world configured to interact with a participant via a network, participating in a risk management arrangement with the participant, and saving a record of the arrangement.
Claims34
A method comprising:
- operating a protection entity associated with a virtual world configured to interact with a participant via a network;
- participating in an arrangement with the participant that includes the protection entity providing a compensation to the participant upon a future occurrence of a described loss in the virtual world in exchange for rceiving a consideration;
- and
- saving a record of the arrangement.
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A system comprising:
- a computing system that includes a computing device which is configured to communicate with a virtual world via a network, the virtual world including an operability to interact with a participant via the network;
- and
- instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing system to:
- operate a protection entity having an association with the virtual world;
- participate in an arrangement with the participant that includes the protection entity providing a compensation to the participant upon a future occurrence of a described loss in the virtual world in exchange for receiving a consideration;
- and
- save data indicative of the arrangement.
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A computer program product comprising:
- (a) program instructions operable to perform a process in a computing device, the process comprising:
- operate a protection entity having an association with the virtual world that includes an operability to interact with a participant via a network;
- participate in an arrangement with the participant that includes the protection entity providing a compensation to the participant upon a future occurrence of a described loss in the virtual world in exchange for a consideration;
- and
- save data indicative of the arrangement;
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- (b) a computer-readable signal-bearing medium bearing the program instructions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.