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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2018
Kabam, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Luc Pieron, San Francisco, CA (US);
Byung Gon Yoo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Baxter, Millbrae, CA (US);
Dylan Swift, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kabam, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method configured to provide limited-time events to users in an online game. The system and method may include executing an instance of an online game and effectuating presentation of offers to users to activate a limited-time event within the online game. Activation of the limited-time event may enable users to perform event runs through the limited-time event for a duration. The execution of event runs through the limited-time event in response to user commands received from a client computing platform associated with the user may deplete the virtual resource in an inventory of the user. The system and method may maintain inventories of the users and recharge the virtual resource as a function of time. The performance of users may be assessed and awards may be distributed to the users based on the assessment of their performance during the event runs. The system and method may include effectuating exchanges by the users of virtual items for the first virtual resource.