公开(公告)号：US09547871B2

公开(公告)日：2017-01-17

申请号：US13841964

申请日：2013-03-15

申请人： Activision Publishing, Inc.

发明人： Karthik Bala ,  Jennifer Oneal ,  Ben Throop

IPC分类号： A63F13/00 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  A63F13/825

CPC分类号： G06Q30/06 ,  A63F13/825 ,  A63F2300/65

摘要： System and methods for physical toy and virtual toy interactions are disclosed. According to aspects of the invention, a system for purchasing a physical toy and a corresponding virtual toy comprises a video game console, a physical toy, and a virtual toy corresponding to the physical toy. The virtual toy corresponding to the physical toy may be made available in a video game played on the video game console. The physical toy may be purchased by a user of the system from an external merchant. The virtual toy corresponding to the physical toy may be separately purchased by the user from a purchasing system within the video game. The physical toy may be registered with the gaming platform. If the user registers the physical toy with the gaming platform and the user previously purchased the virtual toy, the system refunds to the user the purchase price of virtual toy.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于物理玩具和虚拟玩具相互作用的系统和方法。 根据本发明的方面，用于购买物理玩具和相应的虚拟玩具的系统包括视频游戏机，物理玩具和对应于物理玩具的虚拟玩具。 对应于物理玩具的虚拟玩具可以在视频游戏机上播放的视频游戏中可用。 物理玩具可以由外部商家的系统的用户购买。 与物理玩具相对应的虚拟玩具可以由用户从视频游戏内的采购系统单独购买。 物理玩具可以在游戏平台上注册。 如果用户使用游戏平台注册物理玩具并且用户以前购买了虚拟玩具，则系统向用户退还虚拟玩具的购买价格。