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`c12) United States Patent
`Leahy et al.
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`(IO) Patent No.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
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`US 8,082,501 B2
`*Dec. 20, 2011
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`(52) U.S. Cl. ........................................ 715/706; 715/756
`(58) Field of Classification Search .......... 715/704-706,
`715/853-855, 751-753, 756,736,762
`See application file for complete search history.
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`(56)
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`References Cited
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`(54) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING
`USERS TO INTERACT IN A VIRTUAL SPACE
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`(75)
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`Inventors: Dave Leahy, Oakland, CA (US); Judith
`Challinger, Santa Cruz, CA (US); B.
`Thomas Adler, San Francisco, CA (US);
`S. Mitra Ardon, San Francisco, CA
`(US)
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`(73) Assignee: Worlds.com, Inc., Brookline, MA (US)
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`( *) Notice:
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`Subject to any disclaimer, the term ofthis
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by O days.
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`CA
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`U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`(Continued)
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`Primary Examiner - Cao Nguyen
`(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm -Anatoly S. Weiser, Esq.;
`Acuity Law Group
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`ABSTRACT
`(57)
`The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture
`for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive vir(cid:173)
`tual world system. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of
`users interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated
`graphical space where each user executes a client process to
`view a virtual world from the perspective of that user. The
`virtual world shows avatars representing the other users who
`are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual word. In order
`that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the
`remote user's avatars, motion information is transmitted to a
`central server process which provides positions updates to
`client processes for neighbors of the user at that client pro(cid:173)
`cess. The client process also uses an environment database to
`determine which background objects to render as well as to
`limit the movement of the user's avatar.
`17 Claims, 5 Drawing Sheets
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`This patent is subject to a terminal dis(cid:173)
`claimer.
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`(21) Appl. No.: 12/406,968
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`(22) Filed:
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`Mar. 19, 2009
`(Under 37 CFR 1.47)
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`Prior Publication Data
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`Continuation of application No. 12/353,218, filed on
`Jan. 13, 2009, now Pat. No. 7,945,856, which is a
`continuation of application No. 11/591,878, filed on
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`Provisional application No. 60/020,296, filed on Nov.
`13, 1995.
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`Int. Cl.
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