Snowshoefood Inc.

Roblox Corporation

Robolox Corporation

Claus Christopher Moberg

Jami Li Morton

Sheradyn Thomas Mikul

Kyle Emmerich

Philipe Navarro

Isaac Ray

Michael McHale

Daniel L Healy

Iggy Igner

David B Baszucki

Deepak Murali Chandrasekaran

Jessica Kung

Jonathan Igner

Matt Luedke

Matthew Charles Luedke

Erland Kelley

Ryan M Brown

A system and method includes providing, by a first instance of a messaging application hosted by a game engine executing on a first client device, a user interface for messaging with a second client device; receiving first instructions to render a first three-dimensional (3D) object in the user interface of the first client device, wherein the first 3D object is initiated by a second instance of the messaging application of the second client device; rendering, by the game engine, one or more first frames to generate the first 3D object for the presentation in the user interface of the first client device based on the first instructions; and causing the presentation of the one or more first rendered frames of the first 3D object in the user interface of the first instance of the messaging application of the first client device.

Chat application using a gaming engine

A system has a media server enabled to serve interactive digital experiences, and to accept input for control of objects, a plurality of computerized appliances enabled to receive and display digital experiences, and having input mechanisms enabled to provide control input for objects, and an intermediary server executing software, and having access to a data repository. Data interaction between individual ones of the of the computerized appliances and the media server is accomplished through the intermediary server, and upon establishment of data interaction, the technical nature of the display and input apparatus of the particular computerized appliance is determined, data received at the intermediary server from the computerized appliance is modified to the specific format accepted by the media server, and data output from the media server is modified at the intermediary server for optimum display at the particular computerized appliance.

Virtual reality environment multiplatform adaptive system

A method for hardware-tool-based authentication includes detecting a first set of capacitive contact points and a second set of capacitive contact points, computing, from the first set of capacitive contact points, a first set of parametric descriptors, generating a first comparison of the first set of parametric descriptors and a set of known parametric descriptors, generating a second comparison of the first set of capacitive contact points and the second set of capacitive contact points, and performing an event on the electronic device based on analysis of the first and second comparisons.

Increased security method for hardware-tool-based authentication

A virtual reality (VR) gaming platform has a head-mounted display (HMD), software executing on a processor, controlling display of a virtual environment in the HMD and providing functions for network connectivity via a digital port, a three-axis input device providing input to the processor, and dedicated control scripts executable on the processor to provide specific functions in moving an avatar and establishing camera position. The control scripts operate during game play to move the avatar from a first position to a second position in response to specific directional input from the player via the three-axis input device, the camera remains stationary while the avatar moves, and when the avatar stops moving, the camera position teleports to at or near the new avatar position.

Third person camera and avatar motion controller for virtual reality players of avatar-based games

A game system has a server managing a game to a first platform comprising a head-mounted display (HMD) and a three-axis controller, where a movement of a first avatar is made by marking a position to move and teleporting the to the marked position, and managing the same game to a second platform comprising a pointer device and a display screen, where movement of a second avatar is by the pointer device at a pre-programmed rate. Procession of the game is displayed in the HMD from viewpoint of the first avatar, and in the display of the second platform from viewpoint of the second avatar, both avatars being displayed in both displays, and wherein the game server, executing the SW, constrains teleportation at the first platform only to positions within a radius that the second avatar is enabled to attain in a single continuous move at the pre-programmed rate.

Avatar teleport controller

A virtual reality (VR) game platform has an input mechanism, software executing on a processor from a non-transitory medium, and a display screen displaying, under control of the software, an object at a first position in a virtual environment, the object controllable by a player interacting with the VR game platform to move in the virtual environment viewed by the player from a camera centered on the object, the display screen further displaying a symmetrical region of the environment centered on the controlled object, the symmetrical region expanding in radius at a controlled rate. The player is enabled to select, using the input mechanism, a second position within the expanding symmetrical region to move the object, after which selection the object teleports to the second position, and the camera teleports to the second position as well.

A method for authorizing an electronic device to perform an action includes detecting interaction data from an interaction between a hardware sensor and an identity-augmented tangible object; wherein data of the first set of interaction data is intrinsically dependent on physical characteristics of the identity-augmented tangible device; computing parametric descriptors from the interaction data; transmitting the parametric descriptors and supplementary data to a remote database system; generating, on the remote database system, identity data from a comparison of parametric descriptors with a known set of parametric descriptors; and authorizing, in response to both of the identity data and the supplementary data, the electronic device to perform a first action.

Methods for enabling real-time digital object and tangible object interactions

A method for hybrid hardware authentication includes at a first electronic system having a capacitive touch sensor, detecting a capacitive hardware interaction between the hybrid hardware tool and the capacitive touch sensor; generating capacitive identification data based on the detected capacitive hardware interaction; at a second electronic system communicatively coupled to the first electronic system, detecting a short-range wireless interaction between the hybrid hardware tool and the second electronic system; generating wireless identification data based on the detected short-range wireless interaction; and at a third electronic system communicatively coupled to the first and second electronic systems, performing a first action based on a combination of the wireless identification data and the capacitive identification data.

Systems and methods for hybrid hardware authentication

A method for authorizing an electronic device includes: detecting, with a capacitive touch sensor, a first set of interaction data from an interaction between the electronic device and a capacitively interactive hardware tool; computing a first set of parametric descriptors from the first set of interaction data; transmitting the first set of parametric descriptors to a remote database system; generating, on the remote database system, a first set of identity data from a comparison of the first set of parametric descriptors with a known set of parametric descriptors; and authorizing, in response to the first set of identity data, the electronic device to perform the action.

This invention relates to a hardware tool for interacting with an 'intelligent device' such as a 'smart phone,' e.g., Apple Corporation's &#x201c;iPhone&#x201d;, or other devices with certain comparable capabilities, such as the Apple &#x201c;iPad&#x201d; tablet computer, and to a method for authorizing transactions based on successful interaction. More specifically, the invention relates to employment of a hardware tool having contact members for contacting the touch-sensitive screens of such devices at plural locations in specific spatial relation to one another. The device, running an application program or &#x201c;app&#x201d;, then detects the locations at which the screen has been thus contacted, and compares those locations to stored locations specific to a particular type of transaction, and, if the detected locations match a set of stored locations, authorizes the transaction to proceed.

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Redwood City, CA, United States of America

Claus Christopher Moberg