Sony Group Corporation

Sony Corporation of America

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Thomas Sachson

James Marcus

Eric Benjamin Fruchter

Bradley Spahr

Adjusting virtual environment using recommendations, including: retrieving character information from a character database, where the character information is associated with a character associated with the virtual environment, and the character information includes character appearance information, character position information, and character action information; retrieving profile information from a profile database, where the profile information indicates one or more profile characteristics and at least one profile characteristic is related to music; comparing at least part of the character information with one or more of the profile characteristics to determine a comparison result; generating adjustment information based on the comparison result; sending the adjustment information to a client system through a network; receiving an adjustment reply from the client system through the network; and adjusting information for the virtual environment based on the adjustment reply.

Creating, maintaining, and growing virtual music-themed world

Providing an online music experience, including: a music venue system; a game device; wherein a game processor uses game data to provide a mini-game experience and present the mini-game experience through a display, wherein the game processor uses venue data to modify the mini-game experience and present the modified mini-game experience through the display, wherein the game processor receives user input and sends gameplay, wherein a system processor uses music data, video data, and the gameplay data to create a data representation of a music performance, wherein the system processor sends the data representation of the music performance to the game device, and wherein the game processor uses the data representation of the music performance to present the music performance through the display.

Mini-games in music experiences

Managing access to digital content in a virtual environment using virtual content rights, including: providing a virtual content rights database comprising data associating a user of the virtual environment with the virtual content rights acquired with respect to the digital content; receiving, at a processor, a request from a device of the user for assignment of the virtual content rights of the digital content, wherein the user uses the device to interface with the processor; updating the virtual content rights database to indicate the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user; receiving, at the processor, data from the device of the user holding the virtual content rights to digital content including songs to create a virtual user-configured music room having at least one of the songs; and updating the virtual content rights database to indicate sharing of the virtual user-configured music room by the user within the virtual environment.

User-configured music room digital assets in virtual environments

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing footprints in a computer system that provides a virtual environment, including: accessing an avatar record, where the avatar record indicates an avatar representation that includes data to provide a visual representation of an avatar; receiving a selection of a footprint; accessing a footprint record, where the footprint record includes footprint representations that include data to provide a visual representation of the selected footprint as a footprint representation; associating the footprint representation with the avatar representation; receiving avatar movement input that indicates movement of the avatar within the virtual environment; and generating visual data representing the movement of the avatar and footprints in the virtual environment using the avatar representation and the footprint representation, where the footprints are placed in the virtual environment following the avatar as the avatar moves in the virtual environment.

Footprints in virtual environments

Management of virtual content rights of digital assets for a virtual environment, including: receiving data indicating a request from a user for assignment of virtual content rights of a digital asset; determining whether the requested virtual content rights are available for assignment to the user and a set of terms of the assignment for the requested virtual content rights; notifying the user of the availability and the set of terms for the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user; receiving data indicating agreement by the user to the assignment, including agreement to at least one term of the set of terms; and updating the virtual content rights database to indicate the assignment of the virtual content rights to the user.

Virtual music rights management

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media providing banner representations in a computer system that provides a virtual environment, including: accessing an avatar record, where the avatar record indicates an avatar representation that includes data to provide a visual representation of an avatar; receiving a selection of a banner representation made by a user; accessing a representation record, wherein the representation record indicates a banner representation that includes data to provide a visual representation of a banner; associating the banner representation with the avatar representation; receiving avatar movement input that indicates movement of the avatar within the virtual environment; and generating visual data representing the movement of the avatar and banner in the virtual environment using the avatar representation and the banner representation, where the banner is placed in the virtual environment following the avatar as the avatar moves in the virtual environment.

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Malibu, CA, United States of America

Thomas Sachson