Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring an element of a participants physical...
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-02
2010-11-02
Laneau, Ronald (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring an element of a participants physical...
Reexamination Certificate
active
07824253
ABSTRACT:
A system and a method is provided wherein real world monetary or cash values are placed on virtual world avatars, avatar possessed or avatar purchasable virtual world items, environmental virtual world items and virtual world computer generated non-player characters (NPCs), such as slayable beasts, monsters, creatures, or humanoids. These NPCs or other avatars (i.e., other players' avatars) have the ability to defeat and collect the cash value of avatars and their gear, thus gaining cash value for the NPC or the avatars. This cash value is then winnable by any avatar with the skill to best the NPC or other avatar. In this system and method, a real world cash value of an avatar is established and can be increased or decreased based upon the avatar's interaction with other avatars, the virtual world environment and/or a player's investment of real world cash value.
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Thompson J. David
Thompson Scott Edward
Buchanan & Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Laneau Ronald
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