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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2009
Boas Betzler, Magstadt, DE;
Bernd Beyrodt, Stuttgart, DE;
Dieter Buehler, Tuebingen, DE;
Ansgar Schmidt, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Boas Betzler, Magstadt, DE;
Bernd Beyrodt, Stuttgart, DE;
Dieter Buehler, Tuebingen, DE;
Ansgar Schmidt, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Providing tracking information about events in a virtual world using a computer is presented including: causing the computer to provide a re-usable code portion, the re-usable code portion configured with a unique identifier and an address of an external data storage, causing the computer to configure at least a set of events to be tracked for sending information about tracked events to the external data storage; causing the computer to associate the re-usable code portion with a virtual object to be tracked in the virtual world. In some embodiments, methods are presented wherein the causing the computer to associate the re-usable code portion with the virtual object comprises causing the computer to integrate the re-usable code portion on a source code level into the virtual object.'