Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Virtual World System

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 29 -- Shuji Hiramatsu, Masakazu Suzuoki, Toyoshi Okada, Muneki Shimada, Tomokazu Kake, Kenjiro Komaki, Hiromasa Horie, Takahiro Fujii, Yuta Kimura and Hidehisa Onai, all from Tokyo, Akio Ohba, Shigeru Enomoto, Yousuke Kimoto and Keiso Shimakawa, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a virtual world system.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Objects which are created in conformity with the data format of objects to be handled in a virtual world are offered to users on the terminal computers of the users independently of the virtual world. The users transmit the offered objects to a server computer which generates the virtual world, while the server ...

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