Differential resource application in virtual worlds based on payment and account options
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRick A. HAMILTON, II, Steven M. HARRISON, Brian M. O'CONNELL, Clifford A. PICKOVER, Keith R. WALKER
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Abstract
A system and method for enhancing the rendering of one or more objects based on payment and account options. The system includes a computer infrastructure configured to control enhancement rendering of an object in a virtual universe by providing at least one augmentation attribute to a tag of the object. The method includes providing enhancement rendering of an object in a virtual universe by augmenting the object based on a status of a user viewing the object.
Claims19
A method for controlling display of an object on a display device comprising:
- determining whether one or more levels of enhancement rendering on the display device is to be applied to the object displayed on the display device;
- obtaining instructions describing the one or more levels of the enhancement rendering of the object;
- determining a status of a user;
- providing one or more levels of the enhancement rendering of the object in a virtual universe by augmenting the display of the object on the display device based on the status of the user viewing the object, the status of the user being related to one or more actions taken by the user within the virtual universe;
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- determining whether the object has the possibility of being enhanced with more than one level of enhancement of at least one of refresh rate, to have a faster refresh rate than a standard refresh rate, and level of bit color of the object, to have a higher level of bit color than a standard level of bit color, prior to determining whether the one or more levels of enhancement rendering on the display device is to be applied to the object displayed on the display device;
- wherein the augmenting the object on the display device includes at least one of increasing the refresh rate to have a faster refresh rate than the standard refresh rate, and increasing the level of bit color of the object to have a higher level of bit color than the standard level of bit color, and
- wherein the determining includes determining whether the object has the possibility of being enhanced with regard to both the refresh rate and the level of bit color of the object, and
- further comprising determining whether the object has the possibility of being enhanced with more than one type of shading, and, based on the determining of the possibility of being enhanced with more than one type of shading, augmenting the object on the display device with one of possible enhanced shadings.
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