Patent ID: 8771083
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An entertainment device, comprising: a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment comprising one or more avatars corresponding to users of one or more remote entertainment devices each interacting with that online virtual environment; a network communicator operable to receive data representative of the actions of other users within the on-line virtual environment, and to receive content sourced from one or more users of the one or more remote entertainment devices interacting with that online virtual environment; an input device operable by the user to instigate a reporting event; a content identifier operable to generate information indicative of content sourced from one or more users of the one or more remote entertainment devices and that was available to the entertainment device when the reporting event was instigated; in which the content identifier is operable to generate a report containing a substantially 360 degree lateral view with respect to the user's viewpoint in the virtual environment when the reporting event was instigated, as part of the generated information, wherein the substantially 360 degree lateral view is a snapshot that freezes a current state of the online virtual environment, the snapshot watermarked to incorporate time stamp information and at least one of identification data for the entertainment device and user identification data, thereby limiting the creation of spoof reports; and the network communicator is operable to transmit the report containing the watermarked snapshot incorporating the time stamp information and at least one of the identification data for the entertainment device and the user identification data to a remote device.