Virtual World Migration Tool for Seamless Region Merging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current virtual world platforms are unable to interact with each other, leading to technical limitations where regions within a virtual universe are independent and cannot be merged or split seamlessly across different service providers, posing challenges in scenarios like corporate restructuring or performance optimization.

Innovation Solution

A migration tool that selects a source and destination region or account, retrieves and stores virtual universe information, inserts resources, activates them in the destination, and deletes the source resources, enabling the merging of disparate virtual worlds by stitching regions and accounts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If virtual world platforms operate independently without integration capabilities, then each platform maintains technical independence and operational simplicity, but the systems cannot be merged or split seamlessly across different service providers

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to merge virtual worldsVSAvoidsystem integration complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments virtual world data into distinct regions and accounts that can be independently managed and migrated. The migration tool divides the complex merging process into manageable segments: selecting source and destination regions, retrieving virtual universe information, inserting resources, and deleting source resources. This segmentation enables seamless merging while maintaining operational simplicity through structured data organization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The migration tool serves as an intermediary between disparate virtual world platforms. It provides standardized interfaces for selecting source and destination regions, retrieving and storing virtual universe information, and transferring resources. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of integration from individual platforms, enabling them to merge seamlessly without requiring direct complex interactions between each platform's core systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If regions within a virtual universe are kept independent and cannot be merged, then system operation remains simple and stable, but corporate restructuring or performance optimization becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility for corporate restructuringVSAvoidoperational simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The migration tool performs preliminary actions by allowing administrators to select source and destination regions before executing the merge. It retrieves and stores virtual universe information in advance, preparing the destination region to receive merged content. This preliminary organization enables complex corporate restructuring operations to be performed systematically without disrupting ongoing operations, maintaining ease of operation while providing necessary flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables selective discarding of source region resources after successful migration to the destination. The migration process recovers necessary virtual universe information and resources during the transfer, then removes duplicates from the source. This mechanism simplifies operational procedures by automatically handling the complexity of resource management during corporate restructuring, making the process straightforward for administrators while maintaining system stability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #34Discarding and recovering

3Productivity

If virtual world service providers operate as separate independent entities, then each provider maintains full control and security, but performance optimization and resource sharing across providers becomes limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveperformance optimization capabilityVSAvoidservice independence

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The migration tool enables service providers to merge their virtual world regions and accounts while maintaining the ability to operate independently when needed. Providers can combine resources across different service providers to optimize performance, such as consolidating user accounts or merging popular regions, while retaining the option to separate again if required. This merging capability improves productivity through resource sharing without compromising the reliability and independence that each provider maintains when operating separately.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8019797B2Method and system for merging disparate virtual universes entities

Publication Date: 2011.09.13 ACTIVISION PUBLISHING INC

AI summary

A migration tool for merging disparate virtual universes by selecting a source region or source account, selecting a destination edge or destination account, retrieving and storing virtual universe information for the source region or account, inserting the virtual universe resources of the source region or account into the destination region or account, activating the inserted resources, and deleting the source resources from the source region or account.