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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2006
Christopher H. Doan, Austin, TX (US);
Praveen P. Hirsave, Austin, TX (US);
Leonel Saenz, Iii, Austin, TX (US);
Alvin J. Seippel, Iii, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher H. Doan, Austin, TX (US);
Praveen P. Hirsave, Austin, TX (US);
Leonel Saenz, III, Austin, TX (US);
Alvin J. Seippel, III, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A persistent authenticating mechanism to map real world object presence into virtual world object awareness are provided. The illustrative embodiments provide a mechanism by which the presence of a real world object is detected and, while the real world object's presence continues to be detected, it is made available for use in a virtual environment. The detection of the real world object provides an identifier of the object which is correlated with information regarding how to represent the object in the virtual environment, how the object may be utilized in relation to other objects in the virtual environment such that the real world object is modeled in the virtual environment, and the like. The detection of multiple real world objects may be performed and identification of each of the multiple objects may be used to determine how these objects may be utilized together in the virtual environment.