Roblox received 1 granted patent in the Platforms category.
The patent covers technology for navigating through virtual world timelines, allowing users to move backward and forward through time within a metaverse environment. This approach reconstructs entire 3D scenes from previous points in time, similar to how a video player's seek bar enables navigation through recorded content.
Roblox's Platforms patent introduces a temporal navigation system that treats persistent virtual worlds like rewindable media. The technology stores event data from metaverse environments and reconstructs entire 3D scenes by sequentially replaying those events from any selected historical moment. Rather than capturing static snapshots of world state, the system dynamically rebuilds scenes through event sequences, creating an accurate representation of how the virtual world appeared at specific points in the past. This extends familiar video scrubbing controls to complex, multi-participant virtual spaces where numerous concurrent events shape the environment over time.
All data sourced from USPTO patent filings. Google Patents may take several weeks to index recent publications. If a link is unavailable, search for the patent number at USPTO Patent Public Search.