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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2012
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
John G. Vignocchi, Studio City, CA (US);
Jieun Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Afsoun Yazdian, Glendale, CA (US);
Armen Mkrtchyan, Glendale, CA (US);
Robert Nelson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Tracy Thurman, Torrance, CA (US);
Jeffrey Bunker, Cedar Hills, UT (US);
John Blackburn, Bountiful, UT (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Exemplary implementations may facilitate modifications to characters and/or virtual items within a virtual space, or to the virtual space itself, made responsive to detection of a token. In some implementations, a physical accessory may depict a character in the virtual space. By way of non-limiting example, the physical accessory may include a toy figurine resembling the character. A detectable token (i.e., a physical object) may be removably attached to the physical accessory. According to some implementations, responsive to the physical accessory being detected along with the removably attached token, a modification within the virtual space may be made to the character and/or a virtual item associated with the character. In some implementations, detection of the token alone may effectuate such a modification.