Patents Assigned to Planetwide Games, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20100167823
    Abstract: Systems and methods for accessing online content during online gaming are disclosed. In one embodiment, online gainers are able to access available online music content while in-game. Player-selected music content may be played and incorporated directly into the online RPG/MMORPG gaming experience. Players desiring to access additional music content to be played while in-game may be directed to a third-party server, from which the desired music content may be selected and/or downloaded. The selected music content may then replace the generic background music to which all other players are limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: PLANETWIDE GAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Marvin Winkler
  • Patent number: 7695369
    Abstract: Systems and methods for accessing online content during online gaming are disclosed. In one embodiment, online gamers are able to access available online music content while in-game. Player-selected music content may be played and incorporated directly into the online RPG/MMORPG gaming experience. Players desiring to access additional music content to be played while in-game may be directed to a third-party server, from which the desired music content may be selected and/or downloaded. The selected music content may then replace the generic background music to which all other players are limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Planetwide Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Marvin Winkler
  • Publication number: 20090150760
    Abstract: The creation of a personal publication is provided by enabling a user to capture gaming-based media content which is used to populate a page, along with other media and text to create a story or narrative of the actual in-game events. One or more page templates organized into sequential panels may be used to aid in the creation of the story or narrative. A publication, such as a comic book, may then be printed where the publication is comprised of pages based on the aforementioned page template(s) filled with the previously-captured in-game media content, and then augmented with other images, text or graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: Planetwide Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin Winkler, Ralph E. Seibert
  • Publication number: 20060258419
    Abstract: The creation of a personal publication is provided by enabling a user to capture gaming-based media content which is used to populate a page, along with other media and text to create a story or narrative of the actual in-game events. One or more page templates organized into sequential panels may be used to aid in the creation of the story or narrative. A publication, such as a comic book, may then be printed where the publication is comprised of pages based on the aforementioned page template(s) filled with the previously-captured in-game media content, and then augmented with other images, text or graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: PLANETWIDE GAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Marvin Winkler, Ralph Seibert