Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method of modifying an online environment
- Patent Title (中): 修改在线环境的装置和方法
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Application No.: US12528920Application Date: 2008-03-03
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Publication No.: US08951123B2Publication Date: 2015-02-10
- Inventor: Scott Christopher Waugaman , Ronald Jonas Festejo , Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin , Mark Anderson , Mark Graham Swinhoe
- Applicant: Scott Christopher Waugaman , Ronald Jonas Festejo , Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin , Mark Anderson , Mark Graham Swinhoe
- Applicant Address: GB
- Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
- Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Priority: GB0703974.6 20070301; EP07253928 20071003
- International Application: PCT/GB2008/000714 WO 20080303
- International Announcement: WO2008/104795 WO 20080904
- Main IPC: A63F13/12
- IPC: A63F13/12 ; A63F13/30 ; A63F13/00

Abstract:
An entertainment device comprises a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment, that on-line virtual environment being able to host interactions between a user of the entertainment device and other users of one or more remote entertainment devices, a network communications arrangement operable to receive data representative of the actions of the other users within the on-line virtual environment and to receive data indicative of any supplementary data files interoperable with the on-line virtual environment that are associated with one or more remote entertainment devices of one or more of the other users, a data file searcher operable to search the entertainment device for any supplementary data files indicated by the received data, a data file acquisition arrangement operable to acquire, from a networked device, a copy of a supplementary data file indicated by the received data that was not found on the entertainment device, and a data file integrator operable to incorporate relevant elements of the or each supplementary data file into the representation of the on-line virtual environment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120115597A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MODIFYING AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2012-05-10
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