Zynga Inc.

Jesse David Kurlancheek

Seth John Sivak

Daniel Paul O'Brien

Craig Anderson Lancaster

William Daniel Ogles

Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat

Fareed Bhemaram-Mosavat

Christine Trottier

Individual participants in a multi-participant collaborative computing application may be sent intermittent updates of actions taken by other participants. These updates need not be sent to a participant's device until the participant has interacted with a specified object in the application. The participant's device may then be sent an update including object interactions of the other participants occurring since the participant's previous object interaction. The update may be used to periodically inform the participant of the actions taken by the other participants during the period between the participant's interactions.

Semi-synchronous multi-participant application updates

Items may be transferred between participants in a multi-participant gaming application through an item sharing object. The item sharing object may be activated by a participant during game play. After activating the item sharing object, a state of the item sharing object may be determined. If the state indicates that a prior participant has left behind an item that is available, then the left behind item may be presented to the current participant activating the object. Alternatively, if no items are available, the processing device may present the current participant with a quest, the completion of which may result in the current participant leaving behind an item for a subsequent participant activating the item sharing object.

Sharing items between multiple game participants

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Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Jesse David Kurlancheek