Patent ID: 11872498
Assignee: GANZ
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 18:
19. A method of operating a virtual world with virtual pets, comprising:
providing a plurality of codes to a plurality of users, where each code represents a virtual pet;
receiving, from the users, the codes, and responsive to receiving a first code from a first user, assigning a first virtual pet to the first user's account, where the first virtual pet is rendered on a display based on the code,
where the first user's account is capable of storing multiple virtual pets;
responsive to a user requesting breeding between any two of the virtual pets, displaying a breeding user interface which shows a list of virtual pets which are assigned to the user's account and are available for breeding;
responsive to selecting the any two virtual pets, and selecting that breeding of the any two virtual pets is desired, providing a breeding of the selected two virtual pets, which provides a virtual offspring pet having at least one characteristic influenced from at least one of the two virtual pets, wherein each of the virtual pets has a set degree of rarity at creation of the virtual pet corresponding to multiple different features, and a virtual offspring pet's different features obtained from the breeding process and resulting rarity of the different features is determined by each virtual pets' set degree of rarity who parented the virtual offspring pet along with the virtual offspring pet's own rarity, which results in a final rarity of the virtual offspring pet; and
selectively providing a redemption code to the first user along with the virtual offspring pet based on the final rarity of the virtual offspring pet, where only some of the virtual offspring pet receive the redemption code, and others of the virtual offspring pet do not receive the redemption code; and
responsive to receiving a redemption code from the first user, arranging to send to the first user, a physical toy version of the virtual offspring pet that is based on the redemption code.