Interactive toy assembly workshop and method for creating a toy with a digital profile
AssigneeBuild-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.
InventorBrandon Elliott
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing an interactive toy assembly workshop and methods for making a toy which utilizes a digital profile so as to be increasingly personalized. The workshop is composed of a variety of stations which are specifically related to various assembly tasks in the process of taking an unfinished plush toy and producing a finished toy design. While some of these stations are geared to more hands on tasks in selecting and actually assembling the toy, others are specifically designed to provide interactive experiences that enhance the personality of the toy, make it unique, and provide for it to be anthropomorphized by the user in a particular way by creating and using a digital profile with the toy.
Claims19
A method for associating characteristics to a non-digital device, the method comprising:
- providing a non-digital device, said non-digital device being uniquely identifiable via an indicia attached to the device;
- at a first station:
- creating a digital profile for said non-digital device;
- associating said digital profile with said indicia;
- and
- populating said digital profile with characteristics;
- at a second station:
- obtaining said characteristics via said indicia;
- and
- displaying said characteristics as being from said non-digital device.
A workshop for assembling a toy, the workshop comprising:
- A station network interconnecting
- a selection station;
- a characteristic station;
- a stuffing station;
- and
- a checkout station;
- wherein a toy is selected at said selection station;
- wherein characteristics are assigned to said toy at said characteristic station, said characteristics being stored as a profile in said station network;
- and
- wherein said stuffing station and said checkout station access said profile to display said characteristics of said toy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.