Nant Holdings has 1 granted patent in the area of Monetization.
The patent covers technology for location-based virtual goods transactions, enabling mobile devices to scan real-world scenes and trigger purchases of digital game items from nearby merchants. This approach links physical locations with digital commerce, allowing players to acquire in-game assets through proximity-based interactions with real-world retailers.
The Monetization patent allows players to purchase virtual game items by scanning physical environments rather than tapping through traditional menus or storefronts. A mobile device captures an image of a real-world scene, extracts location attributes from what it sees, and matches those attributes to virtual goods offered by nearby merchants through a reconciliation matrix. This system handles transactions across multiple parties (players, merchants, game providers) without requiring the merchants to install point-of-sale Hardware, distinguishing it from earlier approaches that worked only within single-provider ecosystems or relied on NFC tags and barcode scanning.
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