Lineage of user generated content
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsHenry C. Sterchi, Bradley Rebh, Robert Poerschke, Scott Fintel, Jason Major, Soren Hannibal Nielsen, James S. Yarrow, Ellery Charlson, Matthew D. Kerr
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed where users are rewarded and acknowledged for generating content and for remixing (modifying) the user generated content of others. In examples, the content may be levels of a virtual world for a gaming system.
Claims20
A method for tracking modifications to user generated content, comprising:
- (a) storing original user generated content, the original user generated content generated with a computing device executing a content generation software application;
- (b) storing a first identifier associated with the original user generated content;
- (c) providing access to the original user generated content so as to allow remixing of the original user generated content;
- (d) storing a remix of the original user generated content, the remix generated with a computing device executing a content generation software application;
- (e) storing a second identifier associated with the remix;
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- (f) linking the first and second identifiers to enable identification of the remix while the original user generated content is accessed, and to enable identification of the original user generated content while the remix is accessed.
A computer readable media for programming a processor to perform a method for tracking modifications to user generated content, comprising:
- (a) storing original user generated content, the original user generated content generated with a computing device executing a content generation software application;
- (b) storing a first identifier associated with the original user generated content;
- (c) providing access to the original user generated content so as to allow remixing of the original user generated content;
- (d) storing a remix of the original user generated content, the remix generated with a computing device executing a content generation software application;
- (e) storing a second identifier associated with the remix;
- (f) rewarding a creator of the remix for modifying the original user generated content;
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- (g) rewarding a creator of the original user generated content upon storing the remix of the user generated content.
A system for tracking modifications to a level of a virtual fantasy environment, comprising:
- a content generation software application for generating the level and generating one or more remixes of the level and other remixes;
- one or more natural user interfaces for interpreting audible and physical gestures as input to the content generation software application to generate the level and the one or more remixes of the level and other remixes;
- a central service for storing and publishing the level and the one or more remixes of the level and other remixes;
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- a lineage and award engine for linking the level and one or more remixes of the level and other remixes to allow identification of a lineage of remixes that were made from the level and other remixes, and for awarding creators of content whose content gets remixed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.