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US 2006/0190283 A1Published application
Participating in risk mitigation in a virtual world
AssigneeSearete LLC
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 system includes a computing device couplable to a virtual world via a public network, and instructions. The instructions when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to activate a virtual character that represents a participant in the virtual world, enable a participation by the virtual character in an arrangement with a protection entity and make a record of the arrangement.
Claims23
A system comprising:
- a computing device couplable to a virtual world via a network;
- and
- instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to
- activate a virtual character in the virtual world,
- enable a participation by the virtual character in an arrangement with a protection entity that includes the protection entity providing a compensation to the virtual character upon a future occurrence of a described loss in the virtual world in exchange for a consideration transferred to the protection entity, and
- make a record of the arrangement.
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A method comprising:
- accepting an input operating a virtual character in a virtual world;
- participating in an arrangement with a protection entity that includes the protection entity providing a compensation to the virtual character upon a future occurrence of a described loss in the virtual world in exchange for a consideration transferred to the protection entity;
- and
- saving data indicative of the arrangement in a computer-readable medium.
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A computer program product comprising:
- (a) program instructions operable to perform a process in a computing device, the process comprising
- sending an instruction to a virtual world related to a virtual character,
- enabling a participation by the virtual character in an arrangement with a risk distribution entity that includes the risk distribution entity providing a compensation to the virtual character upon a future occurrence of a described loss in the virtual world in exchange for a consideration transferred to the risk distribution entity, and
- saving data representative of the arrangement;
- and
- (b) a computer-readable signal-bearing medium bearing the program instructions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.