Patent ID: 7275987
Filing Date: 2007-10-02
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A virtual world system, comprising: a server computer; a plurality of terminal computers connected to said server computer, wherein avatars of operators of said plurality of terminal computers are displayed in a virtual world generated on said server computer, and are caused to act on the basis of operations by the operators of said plurality of terminal computers, each of said plurality of terminal computers being operable to award an object having a predetermined data format to the operator of said terminal computer to be controlled by the operations by the operator of said terminal computer when the operator solves a problem in an interactive game presented during execution of a first game program on said terminal computer, said first game program being executable independently from execution of a second program for displaying the object in the virtual world, each of said plurality of terminal computers including a control unit operable to permit the operator of said terminal computer to participate in said virtual world by transmitting information regarding the operations by the operator to said server computer and, under control of the operator of said terminal computer, transmitting the awarded object to said server computer under control of the operator to which the object is awarded, wherein said server computer includes an object storage unit operable to store a plurality of the objects transmitted from ones of said plurality of terminal computers in association with information identifying the operators of said ones of said plurality of terminal computers; and object display means operable to display the stored plurality of objects in the virtual world on said plurality of terminal computers on the basis of the operations by the operators identified by the stored identifying information, using the information regarding the operations received from said plurality of terminal computers.