Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 11484797, I will refer to the citations section of the patent itself. The provided patent text explicitly lists prior art keywords and family details, including applications that claim priority to US11484797. The Google Patents link provides a "Prior art" section. However, to fulfill the request for a comprehensive analysis of each patent citation, I need to access the full list of cited references within the patent document (which is typically found in the "References Cited" section). Since I cannot directly execute a live USPTO database search or browse external websites like Google Patents or Justia within this environment to pull a complete list of "References Cited" from the patent document, I will rely on the provided patent text for any explicit mentions of prior art citations.

The provided patent text itself does not contain a "References Cited" section with individual patent citations, their publication/filing dates, or descriptions in a format suitable for the requested analysis. It mentions "Prior art virtual worlds" and "Prior art methods for a branching storyline" generally in the background section, and refers to "several well understood prior art methods for determining the player location." However, it does not provide specific patent numbers for these.

Therefore, I cannot directly provide the full citation, publication/filing date, brief description, and which claim(s) it potentially anticipates under 35 U.S.C. § 102 for each patent citation based solely on the provided authoritative patent text.

Based on the authoritative patent text provided, the following prior art keywords are listed:

• player [cite: Original Patent Text]
• local [cite: Original Patent Text]
• location [cite: Original Patent Text]
• game [cite: Original Patent Text]
• virtual [cite: Original Patent Text]

The patent also broadly discusses the limitations of "Prior art virtual worlds" as having storylines that are "either static or branch in a rather predictable fashion" and "a set number of possible branches." [cite: Original Patent Text] It also states that "Prior art methods for a branching storyline are well known in the industry, where the outcome of one encounter defines the starting point of the next." [cite: Original Patent Text]

Without a list of specific patent citations within the provided text, I cannot perform the detailed analysis for each reference as requested.