A method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of a base virtual world having a base virtual world functionality, includes providing first, second and third virtual world layers having respective first, second and third virtual world layer functionalities beyond the base virtual world functionality and providing user access to the base virtual world functionality and to the first and second virtual world functionalities by the second virtual world layer.

Claims

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17 granted claims

›1.independentA method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of a base virtual world having a base virtual world functionality, comprising:nproviding …+16

›2.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 1, further comprising providing user access to said base virtual world functio…d2+1

›4.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 1, wherein said base virtual world has a base virtual world object and said se…d2+7

›5.↳ 4The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 4, further comprising providing user access to said further managed object by …d3

›6.↳ 4The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 4, further comprising providing user access to said base managed object by sai…d3+1

›8.↳ 4The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 4, further comprising providing user access to said further managed object onl…d3

›9.↳ 4The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 4, wherein said further managed object is independent of any instantiation of …d3

›10.↳ 4The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 4, wherein said second layer managed object is independent of any instantiatio…d3

›11.↳ 4The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 4, wherein a further managed state of said further managed object comprises an…d3

›12.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 1, further comprising:ncoupling a further virtual world layer having further v…d2

›13.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 1, wherein said base virtual world has a base virtual world object which is un…d2

›14.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality of claim 1, wherein said first virtual world layer has a first virtual world object which is unal…d2

›15.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 1, wherein said base virtual world operates on base virtual world infrastructu…d2

›16.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 1, including a further user coupled to said second virtual world layer for acc…d2

›17.↳ 1The method for providing virtual world functionality to a user of claim 1, wherein said base virtual world has a list of base world users and said sec…d2

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IPC · International Patent Classification

Section G — Physics

G06F15/16

USPC · US Patent Classification

709/224709/227709/225709/232

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related publication	US 20100026681 A1	4 Feb 2010

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