Facilitating physical gifting from a virtual environment
OwnerJennifer Richards Garbos, Timothy Charles Janes +3inventors
InventorsJennifer Richards Garbos, Timothy Charles Janes, William David Moses, Gary Thomas Pratt, Kevin Weldon Swanson
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Abstract
A system and method is provided that incident to a triggering event within a virtual environment, includes receiving recipient-profile information of an initial recipient who is associated with the virtual environment and configuration information of a first physical product that is useable to facilitate conveying the first physical product in the real world to the initial recipient and utilizing the descriptive information to facilitate conveying the first physical product to the initial recipient.
Claims20
One or more non-transitory computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more processors of a system, cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- incident to a triggering event within a virtual environment, receiving (1) recipient-profile information of a first user who is to become an initial recipient of a first physical product and who is associated with the virtual environment and (2) configuration information of the first physical product that is useable to facilitate conveying the first physical product in the real world to the initial recipient;
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- utilizing the recipient-profile information to facilitate conveying the first physical product to the initial recipient.
One or more non-transitory computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more processors of a system, cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- from within a virtual environment, receiving a first indication of a desire by a first virtual user to convey a first virtual item to a second virtual user;
- incident to receiving the first indication, determining that a physical item is to be conveyed to a recipient;
- determining a physical mailing address associated with the second virtual user;
- identifying the physical item;
- initiating a conveyance process that results in delivering the physical item to the physical mailing address.
A gift conveyance system, comprising:
- at least one processor coupled to a profiles database that stores profile information of an initial recipient who is associated with a virtual environment;
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- a configuration system coupled to the database that is useable to receive customization information of a physical product to be conveyed to a physical address associated with the initial recipient, wherein the configuration system is coupled with a delivery system that usable to facilitate a delivery process that results in delivery the physical product to the physical address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.