Virtual World Server RFID Asset Teleportation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for tracking moving inventory in virtual worlds lack the ability to seamlessly integrate real-world asset tracking data into a virtual environment, limiting the immersive and informative presentation of asset locations and behaviors.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that utilizes RFID tags and readers to update a virtual world server, allowing it to teleport and render virtual assets in a virtual area based on their real-world positions, mimicking their behavior and status, thereby enhancing the tracking and visualization of inventory within a virtual world.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If RFID tags and readers are integrated with virtual world servers to track real-world assets, then asset tracking accuracy and information completeness are improved, but system complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising RFID readers deployed in the virtual world environment that automatically detect and report asset positions to the virtual world server. This intermediary layer bridges the physical and virtual domains, enabling accurate real-world asset tracking without requiring complex direct integration between tracking systems and virtual world infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates virtual representations (copies) of real-world assets within the virtual world environment. These virtual assets mirror their physical counterparts' positions and states, allowing the system to track and visualize real-world inventory through simplified virtual models rather than complex real-time physical monitoring.
2Loss of information
If real-world asset positions are continuously updated in the virtual world, then information completeness and immersion are improved, but data processing load and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic updating of virtual asset positions based on RFID detection events rather than continuous monitoring. The system updates virtual world states at discrete intervals triggered by asset movements or predefined time cycles, maintaining information completeness while significantly reducing continuous data processing requirements compared to real-time continuous tracking.
3Measurement precision
If RFID readers are deployed throughout the virtual world area to monitor asset movements, then asset monitoring coverage and accuracy are improved, but device complexity and deployment cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the virtual world environment into multiple zones or regions, each monitored by RFID readers positioned at strategic locations. This segmentation allows the system to achieve comprehensive monitoring coverage through a distributed, modular deployment of readers rather than requiring a single complex centralized system, reducing overall deployment complexity while maintaining accuracy.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the cohesive and meaningful presentation of real-world asset movements and statuses within a virtual environment, providing users with an immersive view of inventory tracking and behavior, improving the accuracy and engagement of asset monitoring.
Implementation Method 1
A radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag is a transponder that can respond to a radio frequency (RF) signal with a self-identifying signal
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a virtual world server receives an update signal corresponding to an RFID tag. The virtual world server determines an RFID tag identifier, an RFID reader identifier, and an associated asset name from the update. The virtual world server looks up a virtual area associated with the RFID reader identifier. The virtual world server teleports a virtual asset associated with the RFID tag identifier to a virtual area in the virtual world. The virtual world server renders a model of the asset in a virtual world based on an avatar perspective.