Patents Assigned to Midnight Studios, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9858605
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Midnight Studios, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Dean Normann, Kevin Gene Normann, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Publication number: 20160180425
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Midnight Studios, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Dean Normann, Kevin Gene Normann, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Patent number: 8843585
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Midnight Studios, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Dean Normann, Kevin Gene Normann, Omar Besim Hakim