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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2016
Midnight Studios, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Charles Dean Normann, Georgetown, TX (US);
Kevin Gene Normann, Georgetown, TX (US);
Omar Besim Hakim, Austin, TX (US);
Midnight Studios, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
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.