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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Steven Trombetta, San Mateo, CA (US);
Christopher Thielbar, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Fairbairn, Novato, CA (US);
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for incentivizing completive gameplay include measuring metrics for a plurality of players (e.g., ranked players and non-ranked players) that engage in gameplay, and generating ranked profiles for the ranked players and a non-ranked profile for the non-ranked player based on the metrics. The techniques further include mapping the ranked profiles and the non-ranked profile in a vector-space, where one metric corresponds to one dimension in the vector-space, and presenting a notification to the non-ranked player based on a distance in the vector-space between the non-ranked profile and at least one ranked profile. The notification provides an incentive for the non-ranked player to engage in competitive gameplay.