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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2008
Applicant:
Yong-jun Lim, Seoul, KR;
Inventor:
Yong-jun Lim, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); A63B 67/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus to associate a graphic icon representing a user in an Internet virtual world with the user's experience in the real world, the method including: logging data of an event occurring to the user in the real world; transmitting the logged data to a server; and updating the graphic icon in the virtual world according to the transmitted data. Accordingly, by associating the contents of the user's experience with a database (DB) and expressing the contents in the graphic icon, the user's experiences in the real world can be more realistically expressed in a virtual world.