# US 8,977,960 B2 · System and a method in a computer-enabled environment for establishing and managing separate reputations for a user and his avatar

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- Number: US 8,977,960 B2
- Document ID: US8977960B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/625,574
- Filed: 2012-09-24
- Published: 2014-03-27
- Granted: 2015-03-10
- Earliest claimed: 2012-09-24
- Assignees: Bootic, Inc.
- Applicants: Pierre Vigier; Stephane Tougard
- Inventors: Pierre Vigier; Stephane Tougard
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8977960B2

## CPC

- G06F 3/04815: Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional [3D], e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
- A63F 13/30: Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
- A63F 13/45: Controlling the progress of the video game
- A63F 13/85: Providing additional services to players
- A63F 2300/5546: using player registration data, e.g. identification, account, preferences, game history
- A63F 2300/5553: user representation in the game field, e.g. avatar
- G06F 16/24578: {using ranking}
- G06N 3/006: based on simulated virtual individual or collective life forms, e.g. social simulations or particle swarm optimisation [PSO]
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06N: COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS

## Abstract

A system and a method in a computer-enabled environment are provided. The method includes the following steps: determining a user reputation of a user designator in response to a user rank of the user designator and an avatar rank of each of at least one avatar designator which is associated with the user designator; and determining an avatar reputation of that avatar designator in response to the avatar rank of that avatar designator and the user rank of the user designator, wherein the user designator corresponds to a real world user, the avatar designator corresponds to a user function in a visualized world of the computer-enabled environment, and each of the at least one avatar designator is manipulatable by the real world user.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system in a computer-enabled environment comprising:
a display monitor that displays a visualized world of the computer-enabled environment;
a user designator corresponding to a real world user, the user designator having a user reputation and a user rank associated therewith; and
at least one avatar designator corresponding to a user function in the visualized world of the computer-enabled environment, the avatar designator having an avatar reputation and an avatar rank associated therewith,
wherein each of the at least one avatar designator is associated with the user designator and is manipulatable by the real world user,
wherein the user reputation is determined in response to the user rank of the user designator and the avatar rank of each of the at least one avatar designator associated therewith,
wherein the avatar reputation is determined in response to the avatar rank of the avatar designator and the user rank of the user designator associated therewith, and
wherein the user rank and the avatar rank are determined independently of each other.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the user reputation is decreased in response to a transfer-away of an avatar designator associated therewith.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the user reputation is increased in response to a receipt of a transferred avatar designator.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the user reputation is determined in response to a set-up of a new avatar designator.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the avatar reputation is increased in response to a transfer of that avatar designator to a new user designator having a new user reputation greater than a previous user reputation of a previous user designator.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the avatar reputation is decreased in response to a transfer that avatar designator to a new user designator having a new user reputation less than a previous user reputation of a previous user designator.

### Claim 7

A method in a computer-enabled environment comprising:
determining a user reputation of a user designator in response to a user rank of the user designator and an avatar rank of each of at least one avatar designator which is associated with the user designator; and
determining an avatar reputation of that avatar designator in response to the avatar rank of that designator and the user rank of the user designator,
wherein the user rank and the avatar rank are determined independently of each other,
wherein the user designator corresponds to a real world user, the user designator having the user reputation and the user rank associated therewith, the avatar designator corresponds to a user function in a visualized world of the computer-enabled environment, the avatar designator having the avatar reputation and the avatar rank associated therewith, and each of the at least one avatar designator is manipulatable by the real world user.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the user reputation is decreased in response to a transfer-away of an avatar designator associated therewith.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the user reputation is increased in response to a receipt of a transferred avatar designator.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the user reputation is determined in response to a set-up of a new avatar designator.

### Claim 11 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the avatar reputation is increased in response to a transfer of that avatar designator to a new user designator having a new user reputation greater than a previous user reputation of a previous user designator.

### Claim 12 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the avatar reputation is decreased in response to a transfer that avatar designator to a new user designator having a new user reputation less than a previous user reputation of a previous user designator.