[MUD-Dev2] [Design]Characters moving between worlds [was Personalvirtual worlds]

[John Buehler]

Caliban Darklock wrote:
> Michael Sellers wrote:
>> Mike Rozak wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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. 

Filed November 17, 1999:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6745236

JB