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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2016
Applicant:

Midnight Studios, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Charles Dean Normann, Georgetown, TX (US);

Kevin Gene Normann, Georgetown, TX (US);

Omar Besim Hakim, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Midnight Studios, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04N 21/8543 (2011.01); H04N 21/8545 (2011.01); A63F 13/85 (2014.01); A63F 13/60 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0621 (2013.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.09); A63F 13/60 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 13/85 (2014.09); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06T 15/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/08072 (2013.01); H04N 21/8543 (2013.01); H04N 21/8545 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5553 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.


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