Patent ID: 8905849
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of updating virtual performance characteristics, the method comprising: hosting a game on a processing system, the game including a virtual character representative of a real-world character, the virtual character being controlled by a user during play of the game such that the user causes the virtual character to perform one or more actions within the game; establishing one or more performance characteristics for the virtual character based, at least in part, on a historic performance of the real-world character, the performance characteristics for the virtual character represented in the game by a virtual trading card, the virtual trading card being collectible and capable of being exchanged with one or more additional virtual trading cards within an online gaming marketplace; accessing subsequent performance data of the real-world character; updating, using one or more processors, at least one of the one or more performance characteristics of the virtual character based, at least in part, on the subsequent performance data; and updating the at least one or more performance characteristics represented by the virtual trading card.