Patent ID: 7912793
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: providing a processor; storing, in a data storage device in data communication with the processor, a plurality of digital components, each digital component of the plurality of digital components having associated characteristics and being configured for modeling in a three dimensional (3D) virtual environment, the plurality of digital components comprising avatar components, the avatar components including derived avatar components that inherit characteristics from ancestor avatar components, at least one of the inherited characteristics being revenue values corresponding to each ancestor avatar component; allocating a first revenue value associated with a first avatar component, the first avatar component being related to a first party; allocating a second revenue value associated with a second avatar component, the second avatar component being related to a second party, the second party being different from the first party; receiving user input data via a user interface; modifying, by use of the processor and the user input data, the first avatar component to include at least a portion of the second avatar component, thereby producing a third avatar component, the first, second, and third avatar components being configured for modeling in the 3D virtual environment, the second avatar component being configured for integration and operation with the first avatar component for modeling in the 3D virtual environment, the third avatar component being a derived avatar component that inherits characteristics of the first and the second avatar components, the third avatar component inheriting the first revenue value from the first avatar component, the third avatar component inheriting the second revenue value from the second avatar component; combining the inherited first revenue value with the inherited second revenue value to produce a third revenue value associated with the third avatar component; offering the third avatar component to consumers at a price corresponding to the third revenue value; allocating a first portion of the third revenue value to the first party, the value of the first portion corresponding to the inherited first revenue value; and allocating a second portion of the third revenue value to the second party, the value of the second portion corresponding to the inherited second revenue value.