[MUD-Dev2] [Design]Characters moving between worlds [was Personal virtual worlds]

[Caliban Darklock]

Michael Sellers wrote:
> Mike Rozak wrote:

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> Also, anyone considering this area should note that Trip Hawkins (EA, 3DO,
> now Digital Chocolate) holds a pretty strong patent on the process of
> transferring data between worlds such that it takes on different forms in
> each world (e.g. your knight with a cool sword on a warhorse in a fantasy
> world becomes a pilot with a ray gun in a space ship in a SF world).  This
> patent doesn't resolve the security issues, but it does remove a
> 'normalization' path for those who would munge incoming data to fit their
> own world.  

WRT to this patent, does it date back before 1995? Because if not, I
have prior art.