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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Erik Paul Bethke, Richmond, CA (US);
Scott Koenigsberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amitt Mahajan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/00 (2014.01); A63F 13/85 (2014.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); A63F 13/795 (2014.01); A63F 13/216 (2014.01); A63F 13/46 (2014.01); A63F 13/822 (2014.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0209 (2013.01); A63F 13/12 (2013.01); A63F 13/216 (2014.09); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/46 (2014.09); A63F 13/795 (2014.09); A63F 13/822 (2014.09); A63F 13/85 (2014.09); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0235 (2013.01); H04L 67/38 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); A63F 2300/556 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5533 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5573 (2013.01); A63F 2300/609 (2013.01); A63F 2300/61 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of incentivizing location-based actions by groups is disclosed. A group of users of a game networking system is notified that an incentive reward is to be provided based on a number of members of the group performing a location-based action transgressing a threshold. The incentive reward is provided based on the number of members of the group performing the location-based action transgressing the threshold.