The purpose of this article is to publish a provisional patent
application I filed back in March 2008. The provisional covers
Content Injection and Control Protocol, which I created to
allow Green Phosphor's data visualization application
to interface with virtual world platforms (see previous article on
CICP here).
I recently asked the Slashdot readership whether I
should fork out the additional $10k it would take to properly
complete the app, since I am releasing CICP to the public domain
anyway. Despite a large number of trolls saying I was stupid to ask
such a question on Slashdot, I received a lot of very good advice;
and it sums up to this: publish the work, and as prior art it
protects the protocol. I think this is important. Not only is CICP
useful for business applications to produce 3D user interfaces
within virtual worlds; it is a predecessor to MXP (see previous
article on MXP here). MXP has the
potential to tie together many worlds and programs into one
metaverse. The MXP project is seeking developers… go
to http://www.bubblecloud.org.
Without further ado, here's the publishing of the provisional
patent application for CICP. CICP is for all.