US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 6 for "Reputation tokens based on user activities in virtual worlds" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,564, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Reputation tokens based on user activities in virtual worlds" was invented by Sean Brien (Robbinsville, N.J.), Charles Helfinstine (Wynnewood, Pa.), Janardhan Bollineni (King of Prussia, Pa.) and Aaron Newberry (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for enabling user access to one or more virtual worlds and/or the user activities in the virtual worlds by use of reputation tokens. Data associated with the virtual worlds, user devices, allowed, promoted, and prohibited activities performed in...