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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021

Filed:

May. 25, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kulvir S. Bhogal, Fort Worth, TX (US);

Rick A. Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Brian M. O'Connell, Wake, NC (US);

Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/08 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/08 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0269 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, includes receiving one or more bids for at least one of an enhanced rendering quality and an enhanced rendering order of an object in a virtual universe (VU) and performing a bid resolution for the received one or more bids. Additionally, the method includes rendering one or more objects in the VU with the at least one of the enhanced rendering quality and the enhanced rendering order based on the bid resolution.


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