The Invention Science Fund I, LLC (Bellevue, WA)
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Virtual world environments often include characters that are fictional and participate in actions, events, and transactions. There are educational, financial and entertainment benefits in creating new and challenging ways for providingparticipation transactions related to virtual world environments.
Methods and systems to acquire something that has potential value in a virtual environment as described in this document may be implemented in various ways. A computerized system may include several computer programs that execute instructions.
Some system embodiments for implementing the possibility of a future transfer are the use of one or more computers for creating a virtual world environment; a first data record identifying something in the virtual world that is subject to afuture transfer from a donor to a recipient, which the future transfer is contingent on a disqualification occurrence and a second record that contains requirements for revocation of a future transfer; and the controller module is coupled to one or more computing devices that can assist in determining whether to implement the revocation of the future transfer in accordance with the conditions for the revocation.
Certain implementations described herein provide a method for implementing the future transfer within the virtual world. This includes identifying a particular virtual object or virtual right that could be being transferred to a party that is a recipient and establishing that the transfer of the specific virtual object or right from a donor to the recipient party is subject to being revoked. Additionally, the method may involve the making of a tentative transfer of the particular object or virtual right,and implementing the tentative transfer triggered by a disqualification factor which is triggered by the donor.
Certain embodiments offer a way for cancelling a possible transfer in a virtual universe by allowing the virtual world patron or its character to be a donor party licensed to perform a future transfer of one or more specific virtual objects or rights virtual to a party receiving the rights and also providing confirmation of a necessary real-world or virtual world disqualification before initiating the future transfer. Other aspects include determining whether the criteria for cancelling a future transfer are in place and completing the transfer to the recipient party in the event the criteria are not established.
Some embodiments can be implemented in an application for computers that has instructions that are programmed to execute a process that associates information with a computer system. The method could include creating a virtual world that allows a donor to arrange the transfer of a virtual object or virtual right to a person who is a recipient, and authorizing an unconfirmed transfer of the virtual object or virtual right to the receiver on the basis of an event that disqualifies the donor party, and facilitating a revocation of the transfer in accordance with pertinent information indicating that the disqualification was removed or corrected, or rectified.
An embodiment of a computer program product can include computer-readable signal-bearing devices, which include storage media and/or a communication medium to encode the instructions.
An exemplary process can be encoded onto signal transmission media and storage media within certain computer program implementations. This is feasible with multiple virtual world patrons with logon capability at different locations. Another productembodiments of a computer program may comprise an exemplary method which can be stored on media for signal transmission as well as storage media. This media can be used locally on computers that are accessible to one virtual world patron.
The transactions that take place in virtual world environments that are described herein for the purpose of illustration may be entered into by many different types of participants or entities, based on the advantages that result from embodiments andimplementations that may be desired by parties, credit institutions as well as the players, the virtual environment owner the game world operator, third party virtual and real-world companies, and other entities with an interest or connection to the transactions and arrangements in the virtual world.
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