| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7293235 |
Predicting avatar movement in a distributed virtual environment |
November 6, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for predicting the likelihood of an avatar under the control of a user in a virtual environment moving with a predetermined range of a boundary as disclosed in which the movement of the avatar in the virtual environment is monitored for a period of time, a mode |
| 6934747 |
Computer network indicating relatedness of attributes of monitored terminals |
August 23, 2005 |
| Each terminal of a computer network can monitor the activities of the other terminals or associated equipment such as a telephone and display these activities in visual and/or audible form. The display may be represented as a "virtual world", and/or a generative music system such as "Koa |
| 6912565 |
Distributed virtual environment |
June 28, 2005 |
| A distributed virtual environment includes one or more entities represented in the virtual environment by at least a conceptual entity-model, a dynamic entity-model and a visual entity-model each of the entity models being mutually independent. A server provides a conceptual-model manage |