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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsJames William Scott, Haiyan Zhang, Nicolas Villar, Alexandra Keeley Bunting, Jonathan Leslie Venables, Simon Jay Carter
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Methods of managing virtual resources within a virtual world are described which use a device comprising a connecting element to which one or more smart beads can be attached. A smart bead represents either a virtual resource in the virtual world or an action on a virtual resource in the virtual world. The device is arranged to detect and identify which smart beads are attached to the connecting element and to autonomously update quantities of one or more virtual resources based on combinations of virtual resources and/or actions on virtual resources, where at least one of the virtual resources or actions in any combination is represented by a detected smart bead. In an embodiment, the device is a fashion item such as a wearable device.
A device comprising a connecting element arranged to receive one or more smart beads, wherein a smart bead represents a virtual resource in an interactive software experience or an action on a virtual resource in the interactive software experience, the device comprising:
A system comprising one or more smart beads, a smart bead being connectable to a connecting element to form a fashion item and comprising a storage element, wherein the storage element is arranged to store a parameter representing a quantity of a virtual resource in an interactive software experience or data describing an action on a virtual resource in the interactive software experience.
A method comprising:
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