Method for transferring inventory between virtual universes
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRick Allen Hamilton, II, Steven Mark Harrison, Brian Marshall O'Connell, Clifford Alan Pickover, Keith Raymond Walker
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Abstract
The present invention provides a computer implemented method for transferring an item from a source virtual universe to a target virtual universe. A target virtual universe host opens a session between a source virtual universe host and itself. Next, it determines that the source virtual universe host is authorized to transmit the item to the target virtual universe host. Next, it receives a command from a client computer to transfer the item from the source virtual universe host to the target virtual universe host. Next, it receives item data in the target virtual universe host.
Claims6
A computer implemented method to obtain a copy of an inventory from a source virtual universe to a target virtual universe comprising:
- receiving a user request to manipulate an inventory;
- determining that the inventory is not present in an inventory database coupled to the target virtual universe;
- responsive to a determination that the inventory is not present, looking up at least one item of the inventory in a master inventory index;
- receiving a reference to at least one item of the inventory from the master inventory index, wherein the master inventory index hosts references for a source virtual universe and a target virtual universe that participate in a federated access to inventory;
- querying the source virtual universe host based on the reference to the at least one item wherein the reference to the at least one item references the source virtual universe;
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- receiving the at least one item from the source virtual universe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.