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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2008
Anthony Bussani, Adliswil, CH;
Jan L. Camenisch, Thalwil, CH;
Thomas R. Gross, Zurich, CH;
Dirk Husemann, Einsiedein, CH;
Ansgar Schmidt, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Dieter Sommer, Zurich, CH;
Anthony Bussani, Adliswil, CH;
Jan L. Camenisch, Thalwil, CH;
Thomas R. Gross, Zurich, CH;
Dirk Husemann, Einsiedein, CH;
Ansgar Schmidt, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Dieter Sommer, Zurich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for receiving input from a user of a virtual world, the method including: interacting with an object displayed in the virtual world; displaying another object in the virtual world in response to the interacting, the another object adapted to interact with the user; displaying at least one of a user specific label and a service specific label in place of a generic label associated with the another object; selecting the another object; and receiving the generic label and the at least one of the user specific label and the service specific label as the input in response to the selecting.